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Ways for us to get New Subscribers?

Aliana Blue

By Aliana Blue,
Posted on: 2009-12-05 07:03 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by TyrantMikey View Post
Shouldn't we be removing the Cryptic logos from those, though?

Or is Cryptic still, in some Satan-inspired way, still affiliated with the product?

/em runs off to check the website
The engine is licensed from Cryptic. Their logos staying was undoubtedly part of the deal.


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Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
AHAHAHAHAHAHA- no.
Laugh all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that the game has been out for less than four months in North America, it has gotten mixed reviews, and there are a lot of people who would have laughed even harder at the prospect that a game like Tabula Rasa would shut down after less than a year and half after all of the money and marketing thrown at it.

I'm not saying that Aion won't be a huge success, just that until it's around at least a couple of years, there is no way to predict how it will be doing after five. To pretend otherwise is extremely arrogant. No one has a crystal ball, and for Aion's sake, I hope that NCsoft isn't so smug as to plug their ears and yell, "AHAHAHAHAHA..."

Because of this, like I said, I understand NCsoft throwing their marketing muscle behind Aion. It only makes sense that you want a game's launch to be huge, roping in enough long-term subscribers to sustain the game. However, neglecting the games in your portfolio that have proven that they're long-term successes would be a terrible mistake. The income from these games are what gives you the cash-on-hand to develop the next Aion.

There's a delicate balance in managing how much money gets reinvested in a game versus how much gets reinvested in the company as a whole for R&D and new projects. It's also an art, it's not like you can mathematically prove what the optimum is; you can only go on detailed analysis of what happened in the past along with educated guesses as to what the future will hold.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)

 

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Originally Posted by TyrantMikey View Post
Here's my idea for a new promo vid.

The music is Spybreak! by the Propellerheads. Those of you not familiar with the title will recognize it immediately if you've ever seen the Matrix. It's the music playing when Neo assaults the Federal Building. You can hear it here.

Since the piece starts with "Make him look bad!" I'd start it with a sped-up tour of the costume creator. Design a wicked-looking toon, and then run him through the city at high speed. All through the full four minutes of Spybreak, show this character whooping butt on heroes/villains as you see fit in as many different environments as possible. The idea is to emphasize the speed of both solo and team play.

Spybreak is a fast-moving piece of music, and it *really* suits the pace of combat in this game. I think it would make an awesome promo vid.

But that's just my opinion.

EDIT: I really need to learn how to do this video editing stuff.
Hmmmmmmmmm...

*reads over the idea and starts her brain thinking about demoediting and video editing*

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
Hmmmmmmmmm...

*reads over the idea and starts her brain thinking about demoediting and video editing*

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
How do I smoosh one of your video for GR into my facebook thingy and have the little window just say play on it?

 

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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain View Post
How do I smoosh one of your video for GR into my facebook thingy and have the little window just say play on it?
Someone with Facebook will have to test this - go to the GR teaser, and directly beneath it, click SHARE.

One of the options is Facebook. Click that, log in to Facebook, and you should be good to go.

*****

Alternately, if FB has an option to embed video or embed media, go to the GR teaser, and just beneath the description on the right are the URL link and the Embed Media codes.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
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You're welcome. Let me know if that works for getting vids embedded on Facebook.

Also, FYI, I've asked Ocho to pass the word along to whoever handles the Paragon Studios YouTube channel to please start uploading vids from the FTP site to there. That way, if there are ads you think are particularly well done (my personal fave is the CGI one for CITY OF VILLAINS, and the I-11 and I-12 ads), you can link/embed those.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)

 

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Originally Posted by Catwhoorg View Post
The engine is licensed from Cryptic. Their logos staying was undoubtedly part of the deal.
Although the in-game Cryptic billboards are now blank

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