Hello from Paragon Marketing

What about using some of them Costume codes as a reward for having accounts active for 3 months stright or for new accounts that sign up or are refered in that time frame.

Not a huge deal here, but would keep me paying for the Game to get the reward !

Agent Goat - CoX Global @Goat's

Greetings and Welcome to the forums!Hope you can survive the experience!

I'm from Brazil¹, and I've been playing City of Heroes for the last 6 Months.
In Brazil, the company that owns the selling rights for CoH lacks in the matter of products,obligating the Brazilian players to rely alternative ways to buy the Booster Packs that are not available in Brazil.
This is how I've managed to buy the Pre-purchase of Going Rogue,as well as all the booster packs.
This also matches with the IP redirection that Brazilian computers suffer when we try to access the NC store.We're blocked from it.
Is there any reason for that?What's the level of communication with Level Up Games² you guys on marketing team have?

I know what I'm saying here is on behalf of all Brazilian gamers we have here on COX.

And again,welcome to the forums!

¹Sorry for bad english

²The company that sells COX stuff on Brazil.

Welcome Mr. Pebble. Good to see you're finally joining us on the boards.

dont we need actual marketing for a postion to be filled like this??.0


oh and golden girl..stop spamming the thread !!

We do have a booster pack coming out.

And one of the features is something I really really dislike.

There was one which was pretty controversial, and involved a 20 minute discussion on a topic I never imagined could happen in a conference room.

It addresses one of the most frequently asked topics.

One of the posters in this thread correctly guessed one of the features in the booster pack.

Another poster, in another thread this week correctly guessed the theme.

If I told you guys ANY of the feature(s) in it, War Witch won't let me beta test the WWTF. And I really want to try it out.

But I'll try to toss out better hints.

NAZIS!

Everyone hates nazi's, so it's a commonly disliked feature between all...

So you guys are making a Nazi booster pack...shame on you!

Oh HO! The Devil reveals himself.


With all of the social gaming banner ads and those for budding MMOs all over the net (including Facebook and Myspace), I'm wondering "Where's CoX's?"

Getting notice by doing a new account/reactivation charity drive. For every account opened/reopened in the month of X; Paragon Studios (or NCSoft) will donate a dollar to charity Z.

Distributing an old time radio show that uses CoX story arcs (or canon lore) through your (or someone elses) podcast channel.

Distributing short, episodic machinema through Myspace, Facebook, YouTube and/or other sites.

Free CoX ringtones through Myxer (or like site).

(In game advertising is optional - ignore complaints about immersion)

Make CoX E-Cards available.

Give out branded ink-pens.

When I suggested guest AE Authors, I meant authors that the populace at large would know (and not just those intensely in the know). Heck, go outside of comic-dom and see if anybody like Seth Green (or Seth MacFarlane), Tarantino or someone who would be willing to pen a quick plot in just to broaden their fanbase just a bit (then play it up).


Just a few example, I suppose.

My 1.5 cents:

Many have suggested that tv ads are too expensive. What if you used a barter type system to offset the costs? CoX gets an add on (insert regional market cable channel here) and said cable channel gets an add for one of their shows on our in-game billboards (fine tune the graphics and make them always on).

Start with smaller market channels and work up to networks(we could only hope!). There would still probably be some cost(due to market size differences) but it would seem to me that this would go a long way towards making it more cost effective.

This would kill (or at least wound) two birds with one black pebble,...er stone. The CoX brand would get out to the public and you could expand the pool of in-game adverts to make them less repetitive to the players.




Oh, and put me 500th in line saying to hire Samuraiko to do your promo videos! Every video I have seen of hers has blown the official ones away (the I17 trailer almost brought a tear to my eye)





Just a thought.

Greetings invisible creature of Myth and Legend! I am one who believes we must extend advertising beyond just gaming sites and comic book stores.

WoW is so huge because it was able to get beyond the "gaming and geek universe". It has pulled in the young , old, parents, co-workers, family and friends, many of which had never played an MMO before. The good thing about this is that WoW educated so many about what an MMO is. A wise thing to do would be to draw from peoples knowledge of WoW and horizontally move it to CoH.

1) The best away to reach these non-gamer gamers is through TV ads, yes they are expensive, but I bet an ad on Heroes is much cheaper these days. Ads run on SyFy would be good too.Again start the ad with a WoW reference so that the audience moves into that realm of thinking, then pulls them over to COH, lniking the two ideas in their head, for example:

"Tired of Orcs and Elves? Then it's time for kicking *** and taking names..." queue CoH video.

2) Don't let the ingame ad discussion clutter up this discourse. Ingame ads, advertise TO us, they do not advertise us to others.

3)Do not UN-advertise, running 24/7 threads for Cryptic games is bad business practice, those threads which are never allowed to fall of of the first page. Together have garnered over 200,000 views, not shabby marketing there!Game discussions should be limited to general chat about how good or bad a game is, or talk of up coming games. Maintaining a regular ongoing game forum should not be allowed.Community comes with any game you play, if the community and forums in that game are bad then those players should make a fan site to use, not to run free advertising here.