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Magmarashi posted:When you start looking around, you begin to notice that only a handful of titles get HUGE advertising budgets blown on them, many games release just as much information as Bethesda has before releasing their game. My guess is they've realized they don't need to break the bank constantly stoking the fires, people are going to buy this game regardless. Exactly. If you're interested in Fallout, you're going to buy this, period. And if you have any interest in games at all there's no way you haven't heard about Fallout 4. There's no real need for a huge advertising budget because it's already got widespread attention just by the name alone.
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AbrahamLincolnLog posted:Exactly. If you're interested in Fallout, you're going to buy this, period. And if you have any interest in games at all there's no way you haven't heard about Fallout 4. I'm REALLY hoping they've spent that AAA marketing budget on the work-hours for all this 'bugfixing and polish'. Slightly unpolished and very janky day-one experiences have been a long term complaint and I really want them to put the effort in to break that habit. Magmarashi fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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Oct 30, 2015 05:12
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All I wanted was a solid 15-20 minutes of unedited gameplay. That's all I desired. I doubt I'm getting even that prior to release.
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Oct 30, 2015 05:15
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Inverness posted:They've supposedly been finished with the game since E3 and used the time to bugfix and optimize. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/100636/20151028/the-complete-guide-to-fallout-4-pre-order-bonuses.htm http://www.gamespot.com/articles/fallout-4-dlc-now-available-to-preorder-on-xbox-on/1100-6431065/ "Hines also confirmed that the Pip Boy Edition of Fallout 4, despite being very impressively loaded out, does not include the season pass." Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-system-requirements/ "Highly tailored gameplay videos" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t_YHgo_HN4 For Skyrim and Fallout 3, Bethesda provided a hands-on demo to build hype. Strangely for a game "finished" since E3, Bethesda did not allow anyone hands-on time with Fallout 4. Huh.
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Oct 30, 2015 05:16
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counterfeitsaint posted:Starcraft 2 Call of Duty: Black Ops III releasing on like... the 6th? It's not really a poor decision, since Starcraft and Fallout are so different that people will most likely split time for both.
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Oct 30, 2015 05:28
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Merry Magpie posted:"Excessive marketing" That's not what I'd classify as excessive in comparison to the lengths and depths other companies go to.
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Seashell Salesman posted:Who are coke ads targeting? I don't really know but, much like coke itself, they are everywhere. Coke's massive success in the early 20th century was due to another competing product, Moxie, thinking they were all that and reducing/eliminating their advertising. Moxie was incredibly popular, so much so that the word "Moxie" entered the cultural lexicon through brand recognition of the product. Moxie thought they were so ubiquitous though that they didn't need to advertise, and would instead put their advertising budget towards increasing their sugar reserves. They ended up being dead wrong, and Coke stepped in and advertised the hell out of themselves, and the rest is history. Coke was quite popular all through their run, but it wasn't until the early 20th that they really become a national icon after Moxies fatal mistake. So yeah, despite Coke being insanely popular, they know better than to ever tempt fate and stop advertising.
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Magmarashi posted:That's not what I'd classify as excessive in comparison to the lengths and depths other companies go to. "Since we're still hard at work on the game, we don't know what the actual DLC will be yet, but it will start coming early next year," -Pete Hines, VP of Marketing Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/fallout-4-dlc-now-available-to-preorder-on-xbox-on/1100-6431065/ "Hines also confirmed that the Pip Boy Edition of Fallout 4, despite being very impressively loaded out, does not include the season pass." Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-system-requirements/ Price of Pip Boy Edition of Fallout 4: $119.99 Source: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/fallout-4-pip-boy-edition-playstation-4/9634008.p?id=1219705076076& What would you classify as excessive?
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Oct 30, 2015 05:37
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Merry Magpie posted:"Since we're still hard at work on the game, we don't know what the actual DLC will be yet, but it will start coming early next year," None of that. All of that is considered bog standard AAA gaming marketing these days.
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Oct 30, 2015 05:38
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counterfeitsaint posted:Starcraft 2 I guess I'll get that after I'm done with FO4. They really should've done a better job of spreading the word, though, and picked a different loving release date.
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Oct 30, 2015 05:51
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Magmarashi posted:None of that. All of that is considered bog standard AAA gaming marketing these days. Source: https://blog.activision.com/community/games-blog/call-of-duty/blog/2015/07/09/call-of-duty-black-ops-3-collector-s-editions-announced "Hines also confirmed that the Pip Boy Edition of Fallout 4, despite being very impressively loaded out, does not include the season pass." Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-system-requirements/ The incredibly stupid Pip-Boy Edition does not. Bethesda is more aggressively milking their fans for money than Activision with Call of Duty. Think about that for a moment.
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Oct 30, 2015 05:55
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lmao at merry magpie
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Oct 30, 2015 05:58
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but he's talking about marketing and you seem to be talking about product packages i don't understand
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Oct 30, 2015 05:59
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Milk me T How.
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Oct 30, 2015 06:01
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Merry Magpie posted:The incredibly stupid "Juggernog" edition of Black Ops 3 includes the season pass. I'm gonna be brutally honest, they've already sold an insane amount of this poo poo and even the Season Passes that we have no way of knowing what they'll be or accessing said content for likely a full year from now, nor the stupid plastic crap you can stick your iphone in and pretend you're wearing an even more crappy cellphone all over your hand, will make as much money as Fallout Shelter. The machine's just going to chug on no matter how stupid any of us thinks it is, man.
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Oct 30, 2015 06:30
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Hey Merry Magpie, what doesn't the Pip-Boy edition include? Although you've posted the same info 3 times on the same page like some kind of autist, I still can't make out what you are saying. Maybe it's just the spraypaint fumes getting to me!
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Oct 30, 2015 06:31
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Merry Magpie posted:The incredibly stupid "Juggernog" edition of Black Ops 3 includes the season pass. PRE-ORDER CANCELLED
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Oct 30, 2015 06:47
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What kind of retard buys a season pass or a collector's edition
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NecroMonster posted:but he's talking about marketing and you seem to be talking about product packages i don't understand "The Brilliance of Fallout 4 Exec's One-Man-Marketing-Machine" quote:"DISGRACEFUL." Cream-of-Plenty fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pao3XO_qXtw Unboxing of the Ps4 Pipboy Edition.
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Oct 30, 2015 07:21
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Christ, that Pip Boy looks like cheap plastic crap.
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Oct 30, 2015 07:28
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Shocking. Who could have predicted this?
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Odobenidae posted:Shocking. Who could have predicted this? Yeah, fact is if you want something like that to not look embarrassing, you really do have to either do it yourself or pay out the rear end to someone else to do a custom job on it. Cause just the leather for the mounting band alone is gonna be way more expensive then they'd be willing to pay per unit.
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Odobenidae posted:Shocking. Who could have predicted this? Merry Magpie
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As long as the game isn't complete rear end I don't really mind the whales/super nerds having a lovely plastic crap pip boy.
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Oct 30, 2015 08:04
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I can't believe Todd "Iago" Howard could lead us astray like this.
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Oct 30, 2015 10:18
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To be fair if fallout 4 isn't a buggy piece of poo poo at launch I'm going to ask for my money back because I didn't sign up for some "spent time on QA" piece of software when I decided to preorder a fallout game.
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Chalks posted:To be fair if fallout 4 isn't a buggy piece of poo poo at launch I'm going to ask for my money back because I didn't sign up for some "spent time on QA" piece of software when I decided to preorder a fallout game. It then runs backwards, faster and faster, until it clips up the side of a building and flies off into space.
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Oct 30, 2015 10:34
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https://twitter.com/ChampChong/status/660047094338596864 Dumb looking youtube guy with a puncable face has the inferior xbox game.
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Vikar Jerome posted:https://twitter.com/ChampChong/status/660047094338596864 is that an ad for the season pass?
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Oct 30, 2015 12:17
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Atomic Robo-Kid posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pao3XO_qXtw Honestly, the pip boy box is the most appealing part of that aside from the game disc. Maybe I'll try and pick one up later.
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So does this mean the cat is out of the bag and we will have more info soon, or it's just reviewers under NDAs so we are out of luck?
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Oct 30, 2015 12:21
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Game is like two weeks out, you are absolutely in the "Any minute now" zone of leaks.
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Oct 30, 2015 12:22
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7c Nickel posted:Honestly, the pip boy box is the most appealing part of that aside from the game disc. Maybe I'll try and pick one up later. I dunno dude I like bananas a fair amount
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Oct 30, 2015 12:22
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At this moment, it's both the greatest hiking and homicide simulator ever released and the most bug-ridden piece of poo poo put to disc in out lifetime. Savor this moment friends, for it is fleeting.
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TorakFade posted:So does this mean the cat is out of the bag and we will have more info soon, or it's just reviewers under NDAs so we are out of luck? I think he's not a reviewer since he was going to make a Let's Play. Time to go dark if you don't want to be spoiled, I guess.
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Oct 30, 2015 12:28
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Is he even allowed to post a Let's Play before the 10th?
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John F Bennett posted:Is he even allowed to post a Let's Play before the 10th? I would suspect so, I'm pretty sure this sort of thing has happened before. It might be quite controlled what he's allowed to show but maybe not: all us dumbasses have already pre-ordered.
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