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Re: Different reaction
Posted By: newguy2445Date: 11/19/09 1:43 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Different reaction (Avateur)


: Stephen Loftus got at part of where I was coming from. I figured that
: Waypoint or somewhere online made a lot more sense than a garbage awards
: show that probably doesn't come close to the viewership that Waypoint
: will.

Because more is better than less? They can début it on the awards show and then put it on Waypoint... Which means they get combined viewership...

And just because you find it to be some "garbage awards show" does not mean everybody who watches it finds it to be that way, and it doesn't necessarily effect anything, it's not like Bungie/MS is turning down a better option...

: As for fighting against a publicity option, I think the money could have been
: spent better and placed in a lot of better places on TV than where gamers
: will already be watching and are already aware of Reach or will end up
: seeing the content anyway. I didn't see Infinity Ward do anything really
: beyond putting an ad in a football game, and they've never been given the
: type of millions of dollars in marketing that the Halo games have, and
: look what they've done.

Because the debut trailer isn't necessarily to hook new people into the Halo realm, that'll likely be left to the later trailers for example the Believe and ODST ads. I doubt much will be shown, and so I doubt what is shown could really hook in people who have never heard of Halo or Halo Reach.

: I guess I just don't really like the way Microsoft handles the marketing
: around Halo in general. The Believe campaign, which was bad ass, really
: didn't show a damn thing about the game. ODST's commercial? Not a damn
: thing about the game. And now Reach, debuting it on a show that doesn't
: have anywhere close to millions of users, and if they do it will be
: because IGN, Kotaku, Gametrailers, and everywhere else is now plugging the
: big Reach announcement. So sure, publicity is always good, but it could be
: directed better.

Advertisements are generally about selling a product, sometimes they barely even touch upon what the product is / what it does. For the Halo series, I'd say that the trailers are to show people what the product is, the tv spots are just to hook new people in. Which I'd say they did quite effectively.

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           Bad idearolandk73 11/18/09 12:55 p.m.
                 Re: Bad ideaBry 11/18/09 1:34 p.m.
     Re: Reach Spike PremiereT07WRX5 11/18/09 11:08 a.m.
     Re: Reach Spike Premiereelessar787 11/18/09 11:13 a.m.
           Re: Reach Spike PremiereSonofMacPhisto 11/18/09 11:27 a.m.
           Re: Reach Spike PremiereSpartan Jag 11/18/09 11:33 a.m.
     Re: GT VidCrab 11/18/09 11:28 a.m.
     Re: Reach Spike PremiereFyreWulff 11/18/09 11:43 a.m.
           All Aboard! *NM*ZaneZavin 11/18/09 11:58 a.m.
     it's the opening levelElzarTheBam 11/18/09 1:42 p.m.
     Who thinks they'll cut to commercial?SPARTAN-034 11/18/09 3:14 p.m.
     Spike is in need of an EDITORrolandk73 11/18/09 4:14 p.m.
     Re: Reach Spike PremiereGeneral Vagueness 11/19/09 10:04 a.m.
           Re: Reach Spike PremiereLouis Wu 11/19/09 10:38 a.m.
     Re: Reach Spike PremiereGeoff Keighley 11/20/09 1:20 a.m.
           Re: Reach Spike PremiereAvateur 11/20/09 2:29 a.m.
                 Re: Reach Spike PremiereGeoff Keighley 11/20/09 11:14 a.m.
                       Where was wars then?rolandk73 11/20/09 11:26 a.m.
                             Re: Where was wars then?Leviathan 11/20/09 12:24 p.m.
                                   Re: Where was wars then?rolandk73 11/20/09 1:31 p.m.
                                         Re: Where was wars then?Leviathan 11/20/09 1:58 p.m.
                             Re: Where was wars then?Bry 11/20/09 1:37 p.m.
                                   Re: Where was wars then?rolandk73 11/20/09 1:49 p.m.
                                   Re: Where was wars then?Dani 11/20/09 2:04 p.m.
                             ^Give it up, Wars was crap. They made the right ca *NM*MasterChief2829 11/20/09 2:33 p.m.
                                   Re: ^Give it up, Wars was crap. They made the righFyreWulff 11/20/09 5:46 p.m.
                                         ^ Played it, I hate RTS games. Cutscenes were good *NM*MasterChief2829 11/20/09 7:08 p.m.
                                               Just because you hate it doesn't mean its bad. *NM*Riceatron 11/20/09 8:37 p.m.
                             Re: Where was wars then?Geoff Keighley 11/21/09 12:07 a.m.
           Needs more Def LeppardThe BS Police 11/20/09 2:40 p.m.
     Recapsketchfactor 11/20/09 1:54 p.m.
           Thanks!Avateur 11/20/09 2:03 p.m.
           ^^^SPOILERS^^^ *NM*urk 11/20/09 3:00 p.m.
                 There's a reason they call you jurk... *NM*Louis Wu 11/20/09 3:09 p.m.
           Re: Recapzofinda 11/20/09 4:32 p.m.
                 Re: RecapMetalingus627 11/20/09 4:55 p.m.
                       Re: Recapsketchfactor 11/20/09 5:11 p.m.
                             Riceatron *NM*Riceatron 11/20/09 5:19 p.m.
                                   FffffffffffffffffRiceatron 11/20/09 5:21 p.m.
                                         Re: Fffffffffffffffffvlad3163 11/20/09 5:53 p.m.
                             Re: RecapMetalingus627 11/20/09 11:23 p.m.
           Re: RecapHedgemony 11/20/09 6:42 p.m.
           Re: RecapRoss Mills 11/22/09 9:00 a.m.



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