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'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Larian's publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Agreed, pre-orders are a thing after all...but it's possible that it still works too often and also that gamers are becoming a bit more jaded about marketing. I don't buy anything till the Metacritic and Steam reviews are out, and I only watch gameplay videos any more cause who cares about the cut scenes? I'm sure I'm not the only one. Consumers eventually learn their lessons but then a new crop of consumers comes up.

Counterpoint: Call of Duty 27 should be out soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah I hate that storepages have these videos that look absolutely amazing but show nothing of the actual game.

Sure it looks fancy, but it won't convince me to buy the game until I can actually see what I'm buying.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Call of Duty is a good game tho... I personally don't like it but there is a reason it's so popular. Outside of Battlefield there really isn't much else out there on the quality level of call of duty as far as arcade shooters go.

Any other good quality shooters tend to be PC only and are a lot slower paced. Squad, hell let lose, escape from Tarkov are all great shooters but those games are very slow paced compared to call of duty.

Halo is similar as is Destiny but those are in a fantasy setting and a lot of people like the realistic setting of call of duty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Its a good game but most releases are DLC level, yet they are forcing the player to buy, at least every few releases, because you slash the remaining userbase every time you release a new game.