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Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2014.11.02 01:14:00 -
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1.) 48 hour Alphas/Betas. Seriously, nothing says 'money grab' like letting your consumers play the game for a very limited amount of time (usually in the middle of a work week).
2.) 'X' Console Exclusive features. FFS, all this does is establish that you as a game development studio are playing favorites. It's not like games being exclusive to one console, that's fine - I'm talking about console specific DLC's and events (for instance how it took almost AN ENTIRE YEAR for the PS3 to get Skyrim: Dawnguard).
3.) "30 FPS looks more cinematic" Yeah, I feel you, I personally as a player like playing some games in 30 FPS because it gives it a more visceral feeling... But let's not bull**** anyone by saying it's more 'cinematic' when you really mean 'we don't feel like optimizing'. There is absolutely no reason any PC game should have a frame-rate cap and if you're low-balling on the frame-rate for a console, it's probably because you simply don't want to admit the console can't run it with 60+ FPS performance. (see Assassin's Creed controversy)
4.) Forced "Always On" multiplayer in games that truly don't need them. EA is terrible about this with games like Sim City. A game that is largely focused on a single-player theme should not have elements forced upon them that are multiplayer unless they choose to do so. No-one is impressed by this kind of social interaction, it's just annoying.
5.) Vitrolic communities. Dust 514 is bad about this at times (herp derp we already know about this even though it's news to you) but LoL was the -WORST-. Nothing says douche baggery like a handful of self-proclaimed elite players all vying to abuse the automatic reporting system because you did something outside of the norm in a game that is largely about experimenting with a -VAST- set of tools to cater to your playstyle.
6.) Jack-in-the-Box Co-Op. Mass Effect 3 and Dead Space 3 are just two of many. Games that catered to single-players forging their own story or discovering it on their own and then suddenly BOOM, in comes a co-op aspect in your beloved franchise that practically forces you to find a buddy or random ***hat to see all that the game has to offer; often times locking away crucial aspects of the story behind a social barrier.
7.) Pre-orders. I have -NEVER- liked pre-orders because you're basically gambling with your investment. Take for instance: Destiny. An arguably over-hyped game that took all the worst parts of an MMO and shoe-horned them into something it wasn't, then marketed it as something it wasn't. Activision was taking pre-orders for Destiny on the next gen consoles before they were even announced. Destiny Pre-orders were being taken before the game had anything more then concept art and a three paragraph description that basically described Borderlands. No screenshots, no gameplay video, no development testimonials. Just the word of a publisher.
8.) Pre-order and Retail Exclusive Bonuses. Two words: Money grab. See above.
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Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2014.11.02 07:01:00 -
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Well put.
Yeah, Marketing is all a cash grab but there are certain practices that are downright -annoying-. Big time publishers like Activision ****ting out a game like Destiny that wound up having worse ratings on Metacritic than Dust 514 can cover their losses because, "Eh, who cares, we got 'em on the pre-orders".
Dust 514 has had it's fair share of marketing backstabs. Like when everyone was having issues with the contact grenades because they were -extremely overpowered-. Devs are already looking into it, planning on making balance changes... public is ready for it to happen while the trolls stock up en masse to continue using their pay-to-win only mechanic until the bitter end...
What's CCP's Marketing team do?
Release a sale on them!
And to give further evidence at just how disconnected they were with the game they trying to market they sold two variants of the contact grenades which had -the exact same stats- for two separate prices.
It's not so much marketing in general that aggravates me but when marketing directly contradicts the overall health of the game they're trying to sell? That's when I get a little iffy. Makes me question who's side they're on 
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Posted - 2014.11.02 09:27:00 -
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Somehow missed your first post?
Yeah, what I mean't about the 48 hour beta thing is basically what they did with Destiny and what they're doing with Evolve right now. You really don't get to experience everything that's being offered up in 48 hours to make an informed decision as to whether or not to actually buy the game. That and considering Demos are all but done away with, it's basically "pay for our game or just don't play it ever".
As far as the LAN thing - I agree. Friends tried to get me into some Tungle BS (basically a LAN emulator) and it was more trouble then it was worth. It would have been easier for me to just go to Germany and -actually play via LAN- than to try and set that non-sense up.
LoL really is /b/ on 4chan. You'll never live up to anyone else's expectations, you should never try, and if you ever try to think outside the box get ready for a whole prize package of criticism and hatred. Evolve recently showed me just how much I hate video game communities (here in the last two hours) when a dude was screaming into his ****ing mic for me to drop an orbital on the monster.... in a cave.... When I typed my response he responded: "Kill yourself kid it's 2014 get a mic". I can understand that kind of fervor for a competitive game like Dust 514 when long-term investments are at stake (PC Territories for instance) but a game like Evolve that has absolutely no long-term persistence outside of minor 2% weapon upgrades is just ********.
Another thing that pisses me off is SJWs (social justice warriors). Had one the other day literally proclaiming that white people shouldn't cosplay as a video game character of a different color because they're already, quote: "Under-represented".
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Posted - 2014.11.04 01:48:00 -
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Spademan wrote:Games that don't live up to their masterfully crafted advertising campaigns. (Dead island, those guys need a job with a better studio. They're marketing masterminds.)
They probably went to work for Activision/Bungie x3
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