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Okay, SOme Stuff:
I Can't make it on itme for tuesday(Gt off at seven, then roughly an hour on the bus home)
Anybody Who's expressed interest has a spot reserved, and Just needs to M ake their Character, we're oprating around level twelve, and are about to go throught the the Midnighter Squad Arc, on mission three at the moment.
Anybody who feels they want to re-roll or roll a different character is welcome to do so. -
tsks thread*
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Quote:HEY! give that back! there are REAL innocent people who need to use that whistle!Originally Posted by Sapphic_Neko
*whistles innocently*
See, now, I have no idea what you're talking about!Quote:Some might say there is practically a foundry for the stuff
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I love that whenever somebody acts like a jerk, and somebody calls them a jerk, the response is "Grow thicker skin! you suck!" which seems interesting, because, if you're gonna act like it's completely unreasonable for people to respond negatively to you doing negative ish, then you should just accept that people will say mean things to you, like call you a jerk for acting like a jerk
People who want to insult everyone around them, but not be insulted in turn: GROW THICKER SKIN! -
Quote:well, The site I saw them on would at LEAST be clicks 50-100 :P
Federico has done *alot* more art for me, some require a 2-click rule, but most if it prob wouldn't be allowed with a 200 click rule -
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Hello and welcome, Black Pebble, I have, first, Some questions, then some suggestions.
Questions:- Is it at all possible for us to get some information about you?, name, Were/if you went to school, Experience.
- Do you have any plans of your own, concerning advertising, and if so, what are they?
- What have you done thus far concerning the advertising work for this game?
Suggestions:
- Merchandising: Two reasons
- It's Free Advertising
- It's almost free money.
This doesn't just include T-shirts, mugs, posters,and such, but also what(and I hope you know this already) some folks call "feelies", as well as things like game pads( oh what I wouldn't give to be able to play this game properly with a Controller) adorned with City of art, more "Special editions" releases of the game, and things like that.
You mentioned give-aways at cons as a possible deterrent for merchandising earlier in the thread:
Quote:You know what's just as good, or even better then getting something at a con? Getting something that's More Specialer(R) than what somebody gets with their credit card from an online store. Imagine this sceneDon't you like getting neat things for showing up to cons? We like giving out neat things. They wouldn't be as neat if they were easy to get
Quote:*Guy1 walks down the street with his online-bought Arachnos T-shirt*Guy1:Hum-De-um, I love Lord Recluuuse
*Bumps into Guy2, who's wearing a button-down black shirt*Guy2: HEY! You play City Of Heroes? I LOVE city of heroes! that's an awesome shirt!
Guy1: Thanks!
Guy2: but you know what?
Guy1Curious: What?
*Guy2 Rips Button-down Black shirt open, buttons flying, to reaveal his totally-awesome-super-special- City of Shirt that you can only get at the con and may or may not have also been signed by Dave Nakayama or somebody or has War Witch's lipstick on the colllar*
Guy2:MINE'S BETTER!
*runs off cackling like a lunatic.*
- "City of"-Specific Advertising:
I feel like City of should be presented as it's own thing, instead of part of NCsoft's stable of games. For comparison. Spider-man is Marvel's biggest draw, but he is advertised just as much with his own merchandise and advertising, as he is on "Marvel Comics" advertising and merchandise.
City of's merchandise store should be it's own thing, linked from the main site.
- Demographic Targeting:
Your core demographic is the overlap between fans of Super-heroes, fans of video games, particularly MMOs, and Fans of comic-books in general.
Any action taken to bring in new fans should have this heavily in mind. While it is very true that you get lots of business from either respective group, as well as lots of different demographics, the biggest chunk is almost undeniably from the primary demographic* which brings me to my next points
- Comic Advertising
I personally believe how the Business of comics is run will see significant changes in the next five-to-ten years, but that has very little to do with how you should use them to advertise. The basic thing to do would be to put ads in the various titles. Beacause we're primarily advertising a Super-hero game, it'd be less effective to advertise in Anita Blake, or Shonen Jump, than it would be to Advertise in Spider-man
It's also important to think about what ads to put in which books.
In a DC title, I would advertise the game's more Traditional Super-hero elements, Fighting the In-game criminal types, leaping across roof-tops, and taking down Giant monsters.
In Marvel, I'd advertise a lot of the more complicated story elements, Such as Faultline, Going rogue, and some of the Villain Content.
In Dark-Horse, I'd go more across the board, advertising with more crime-fighter type heroes, and more of the Midnight-Squad, Orobouros, and Vangaurd elements. This targets both your core demographic, and the sub-groups within them with the material they like to enjoy.
- Web-Comic Advertising:
Everything I've said about Comics? applies here as well. Look up popular web-comics, peruse their content, pick one of the many banners you should have prepared that fits the general tone of the site.Sit back and rake in the new subscriptions.
- Video-Game website and Magazine advertising
These ads should be more technical than artistic. In a Comic ad, you're advertising going on a super-heroic adventure. In a Video-game web-site or magazine ad, you're advertising all the new features.
I'd be a bit scarce with the graphics, as the ads are gonna be sitting right next to the newest X-box 360 First-Person-Shooter-Gorestravaganza of the week with all the Bloom, Blur, and Brown that everyone loves for some reason.
- Cheap Box, and changes to the way trials are acessed
I'm wierd, I like having a box for my game. So I'm putting that up front right now.
I am generally disinclined to pay for a game if I feel it's not worth it. Fifty dollars for a trial of a game, then fifteen dollars a month indefinitely would be something of a deterrent. Even more so for a game that can, (hard truth time
) feel a bit dated sometimes.
If I were in charge of marketing and sales, I'd Release a hard Boxed version of the game, In a Decent DVD case, not a sleeve, that not only holds the game and a decent start-up guide, but also Comes with a full Month's subscription.
The price ofr this box? roughly Fifteen dollars. So, Buying the game gets you a full month of subscribed time, with or without a credit card or regular monthly subscription.
Where I live, I can't find Game Time cards in any store, So starting up can be somewhat hard to people who can't properly subscribe, like myself.
- Free Trials
Keep the current format of the Free trials, both the access available to download, and the things that can be acessed in-game. In adition to the online download of the free trial, release free trial discs whenever major changes occur, say, every issue, or Every time something major is released
In addition, Release a Booster-pack version of the free trial that comes with the newest Super-booster pre-installed, so prospective new members can get a free trial, with one Booster, and maybe subscribe from there.
- Social Networking
You're already pretty much doing this, I just feel like it needs to be said. Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, whatever else. Keep them up, keep them very active, have devs and members of the team posting on them almost as regularly as they do on here.
- Web-comic
I have an old insert from the DVD edition of City of Heroes, it talks about my subscription(I got the DVD used, after the comic ended ) and how "Maybe you'll see you character in the comic!" Well that had me Throoughly geeked out.
The community on this game is one of the best I've ever seen, and something like that would be a fantastic gift to the fandom. In addition, as the core demographic LOVES super-heroes, and seing one of their own superheroes brought to life in true comic form is incentive enough to play the game.
As I've said earlier, I imagine the world of mainstream comics changing soon, with the rise of successful web-comics, and the advent of mobile comic-reader apps for smart-phones, the traditional 20-30 monthly format couldv ery well be made obsolete, in favor of a 20-30 page online monthly, that is later released in trade format in print.
What this means is webcomics are the future, and reviving the City-of comics online is a great way to get in on this boom.
The comic would be useful for these reasons- It, obviously, is it's own form of advertising for the game
- Done properly(and I have ideas for that) It would advertise the ongoing story of the Game's lore, as well as be it's own form of an update for the game's story
- If player-created characters are used as secondary, and background characters, as well as possible main character in side stories, it bolsters community, and incentivises continued activity in the game community, and thus, incentivises continued subscription to the game itself.
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Imagine if you will, A fire/Fire Scrapper, magic origin.
So, you're talking to this boy, and, amongst heroes the topic comes up, as it always does
" How'd you get your powers"
He gives you a rueful grin and leans back
"Imagine, You're like me, just a regular kid in Paragon, yeah, I know, that's rare enough, right? So you're attacked by the Circle of Thorns on your way home from school, can't get much worse than that, huh? They're about to do the whole "Shang-Tsung" routine, when all of a sudden everything catches on fire and you black out. When you wake up, you're miles away, and everything around you is scorched all to hell"
The room gets a bit warmer, Leon Lawson shifts a bit in his seat. He takes a breath and continues.
"You just figure a hero had come along and whisked you away, happens all the time, right? So you thank whoever and run home as fast as you can."
You're sweating by now, why is it so hot in here?
"BUt, let's say it's not over, let's say, You start having dreams, Craazy dreams,something keeps, yelling at you, fire everywhere, you can't understand the words, but you know what they're saying."
He drops his head, and begins, not so much speaking, as somehow radiating a voice
"CONSUME! BURN! EVERYTHING!"
His head bounces up so fast it almost flies off his shoulders
" And, you, you start losing time, just, just blacking out, stuff like clothes and junk starts dissapearing, and your room always smells like fire, then one day, you see this picture online"
((Imagine he's got one of his flaming toggles on to complete the effect :P, AE Won't let me do it))
The heat turns up, it feels like a sauna in here, what's that light coming from this kid?
"And, I don't know, it triggers soemthing, the voice you'd ben hearing, starts talking clearly in your head, it talks about "The Path of Flame" and all kinds of craziness, so, now, you know what's going on, you're.. You're turning into this THING, but what REALYL sucks, once you figure out what's going on, it Starts, I don't know, Starts TALKING more, so now you've got to get a handle on it, but, see, the more you use it, the more it starts talking."
The light is almost blinding now, when it suddenly cuts off
" but that's not your, story, it's mine, heh"
and with a big smile, He gets up and Bounds away
OOC:
Conceptually,
This is a kid living a double life as a superhero, He has a symbiotic relationship with a fire-Elemental Spirit, and It's beginnign to affect him
Soooo my Inspirations were numerous, But they include
This guy, Who, I've Honestly never seen in his source material, but doing a Random Digimon Forum RP elsewhere brought him up, but Damn if he dosen't look awesome
Both the Hulk, and Ultimate Green Goblin as well in terms of how I plan to represent his powers, (Big, strong, vaguely rampagey)
Comments? suggestions?
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Okay, so, I just got my Idea for Fire.So I'm taking fire, Something melee oriented but FIRE IS MINE!
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I'm in for tonight, if we can
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Quote:Aww, you gotta try, Static teams are the bestest!Originally Posted by Leo_G
As for the rest, meh. I'm sure I'd get bored talking up the same 7 people grouping and talking over eachother. I'll just sit out.
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Premmy here,
My work schedule is random, but I'm never working after twelve pm EST
I'm on two other ST's One that meets Tuesdays, 6:30 to :30 and one that meets 8:30 to around eleven.
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Putting in for either
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Would be in for it, can't decide on an element yet...
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Okay, so, apparently there was a bit of a problem meeting up tonight, Which may or may not (as in probably most definitely is) be my fault, TO remedy that, I'm proposing we meet up again sometime this week, I'm open ofr our regular meeting time for the next three days,I'm gunning for friday, but if anybody has another suggestion, I'd be up for it, also, Welcome Our New Member Midnight Dread!
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I ams
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UNfortunately, I will be late tonight(but I'll still be there!) since I catch the bus home
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Quote:Pretty much anything that's not brawl or a small selection of toggles will do it too.Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint
they work just like any other weapons set as in if you stop fighting for a period of time, they will be put away and you have to redraw. i believe that boxing from the fighting pool will also cause this.
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I think the Concept is supposed to be similar to th GvE jump-pack, with swinging animations, in that you jump in mid-air, though, obviously, not being able to continuously jump up by holding down would be needed, and a better forward movement speed, maybe with less upward movement.
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I'll most definitely be there.
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Before we get long dreadlocks, we need Short dreadlocks, Considering right now we have
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It could just be enemy targeted, target an enemy, he infects anyone he's near, if he's too far away, it ends up a wasted debuff on a lone enemy.
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I am most definitely still recruiting, hit me up with your idea!
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I've got a character I want to play, but I want a home for him, He's a young character, and he's EEEEVIIIL, any groups for young villains?
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they're two guns.