Why aren't we advertising?

I nominate Dark Respite be hired to make commercials for CoH.

^^this. and also word of mouth, make your own shirts and wear them around, hand out those trial codes... the list of "free" the list of advertising can go on and on and on and on and on and on.....

in fact, word of mouth is how i heard about the game. being playing for the last 3 years because of it.

After watching that I think I know a bit more of the problems that CoH has with gaining and retaining new players. Our tutorial isnt very in depth, its more of a story lead-in then a this is how this game works explanation. Perhaps there should be additional optional tutorials avaiable to players via city hall in Atlas that provide a more in depth explanation of what zone events are, the various enemy groups, and other assorted things that would be confusing to new players. Maybe make a Hall of Records that acts kind of like an in game Paragon Wiki.

Make one anyway.

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Ummm, why don't you do a search for super hero on gamestop and see what comes up.. Then do a search for Super hero online and see what comes up..

Here done for you

http://www.gamestop.com/browse/searc...0hero%20online

http://www.gamestop.com/browse/searc...t=super%20hero


Further from what I can see.. IF they paid Gamestop to advertise, they didn't pay much.. Because the ONLY way you would find CoX on Gamestop is by actually doing what your doing and that is running a full name search..

Yea your right about me trolling if you consider me telling you your wrong.. Because you simply are..

From your analogy if I did a Google search for City of heroes that would be advertising..

End result..

. He was right.. You were wrong..

Was that necessary ?

You go out of way to belittle people..

Oh my someone is Trampling all over Forbin_Project forums.. He better put them in their place fast.. This isn't the first time I mentioned this to you.. And it won't be the last..

I am not refuting the fact that maybe they are paying to advertise on Gamestop.. As you mentioned in another thread.. How do you know.. You pay the bills for the company ? You work for gamestop advertisement department / billing dept ? Devs sent you a secret message ?

Answer is you really don't.. So your just speculating something from some quote you pulled from somewhere that you even failed to link so others can find it..

I've been fortunate to see how online advertisement works and the NUMEROUS ways that you can pay a website to spotlight your product.. Again sadly if they did pay Gamestop.. They paid for the 6 pages.. There are only 7 pages.. And of course DC online which comes out in NOVEMBER is listed before them on page 2 or 3 I believe.

You know silly me I always though ADVERTISING was suppose to be for people who didn't know about an item or product.. Hey Plainguy, you know going Rogue is coming out.. Umm, yea I know.. I see it advertised on the heroes website everyday and when I load up the game..

See its wasted advertisement on me.. Someone new yea maybe, worth something.. But we are discussing gamestop.. I don't see it advertised on gamestop.. I see it listed though..

End result unless you can actually prove they paid for advertising or can find City of Heroes on gamestop without typing in City of Heros, going rogue.

You....... Are... Wrong....

And your WRONG because you have no facts to back it up..

Next time do some research before you post.

Oh look Another forum member has already done what you ask and has provided links that prove you wrong.

Sorry, but you are once again incorrect. I was merely reporting what Black Pebble himself told us. You know Black Pebble, the Redname from CoH Marketing.


My forums? Hardly. I don't even browse 1% of the threads so I could never attempt to lay claim to ownership.

As I said before and will probably have to repeat more than once in this response to you Black Pebble the CoH Marketing Brand Manager told us in a post he made up in the News, Events & Announcement section.


No. Never claimed I did.

No. Never claimed I did.

Funny you should say that. While it wasn't a secret message and it wasn't a Dev. It was BLACK PEBBLE from COH MARKETING who publicly posted on these very forums the excerpts which I quoted.

Translation: Plainguy doesn't know how to use the search feature. Otherwise he would have found the thread where Black Pebble made the post that I took excerpts pertaining to this discussion from. He made the post on 05-28-2010, 05:07 PM

Re: Discussion: New Gamestop/Razer Going Rogue Promotion

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http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...53#post2903453

It also appears that plainguy doesn't know that he could have simply left-clicked on Black Pebbles name and selected option three from the drop down window that reads "Find More Posts by Black Pebble"



If you think the marketing promotion with Gamestop and Razer is limited to the CoH playerbase then you really don't know what advertising is.

Already done. Just read Sharker's response where he did exactly what you request and provided links to prove it, and Black Pebble already explained in his post.


In the future plainguy it would bolster your position if you did some research before posting. With only the slightest effort Sharker and I were able to blow battleship sized holes in your argument. Doing research will not give you cooties.

Looking forward to your next attempt to derail the thread

Actually, there are ads for Marvel products in DC comics and vice versa, and I'm pretty sure ads for both in Dark Horse books, rather frequently these days. The funny thing about that, is that a higher up in DC has sworn that as long as Joe Quesada is EiC at Marvel there won't be any more crossovers between the two companies, due to some joke Quesada made against DC years ago.

yes, I'm aware the two advertise together. Just because two giants in the industry have to deal with one another though, does not mean they have to deal with what they view as a small-time competitor.

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You know your right.. I need to learn how to spell it's heroes not hero.. I was in error.. No issue here manning up.. I've made bigger mistakes..

Irregardless I was just giving someone back the same attitude he was has been dishing out.. I felt his snarky attitude was uncalled for plain and simple..