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Discussion: Summer Event Double Feature Trailer at Gametrailers.com!

Bronze Knight

By Bronze Knight,
Posted on: 2012-06-27 09:05 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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I don't know about you, but nothing gets me pumped up to see a new movie like a good trailer. Something with earth-shaking music, hard-hitting action scenes, fast edits and one helluva voice over. I think you guys are really going to enjoy this.

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/p...buster-trailer

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I don't know about you, but nothing gets me pumped up to see a new movie like a good trailer.

 

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It's a shame this isn't posted on the YouTube site that is listed at the end of the trailer.

The video on gametrailers was poor quality and I wasn't impressed with the GT logo being stamped in various places during playback.

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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

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Noice. Both regarding Bill, and the trailer itself, though I am less than a fan of the voice. Definitely shoulda been your stereotypical movie announcer voice and begun with the line: "In a world where..."


 

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Okay, now that was cool. Of the two 'halves', the second was DEFINITELY better, playing more to the "Ocean's Eleven" vibe, but both were very well done!

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It's a shame this isn't posted on the YouTube site that is listed at the end of the trailer.

The video on gametrailers was poor quality and I wasn't impressed with the GT logo being stamped in various places during playback.
This.

But it was a good trailer. (Or was it a good caravan? )

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It's a shame this isn't posted on the YouTube site that is listed at the end of the trailer.

The video on gametrailers was poor quality and I wasn't impressed with the GT logo being stamped in various places during playback...
Look at it this way:

City of Heroes is being featured on page one of one of the biggest gaming media sites in existence on the day of their major relaunch. The amount of hits and visibility we get out of being on Gametrailers is *huge*.

In other words, Marketing/PR did good.

P.S. We'll have it on YouTube in a week or so to give Gametrailers exclusivity for awhile.

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Look at it this way:

City of Heroes is being featured on page one of one of the biggest gaming media sites in existence on the day of their major relaunch. The amount of hits and visibility we get out of being on Gametrailers is *huge*.

In other words, Marketing/PR did good.

P.S. We'll have it on YouTube in a week or so to give Gametrailers exclusivity for awhile.
........never heard of it before

seriously.

I've already forgotten about most of you

 

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A week?

Argh!!!!!!!

*sigh*

Ah well, I'll eventually get to watch it in a format that isn't such poor quality. It says it's available in HD, but I can't find any settings to turn HD on.

But, since I'm not the target audience for the Summer Event I guess it isn't that important anyway.

And, like VC, I've never heard of them before today either.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

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I have. But didn't realize they were relaunching.

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Not picking on Marketing/PR but the comments at that site say it all.

Wow... this game is still going?

This game still exists?

Didn't know this game was still around.


So what was Marketing/PR doing for the past 8 years?

 

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So what was Marketing/PR doing for the past 8 years?
Using our sub money to live in marble mansions, watching their fleet of gold-plated sports cars being washed in champagne by teams of Playboy models.

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Gametrailers... plays game trailers. I thought their specialty was HD trailers for a while.

I got the most out of the site as the host for the HAWP (Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin') web-series/comic/videos.

Those comments mentioned about "this game is still going?" is someone inquiring about the game that wouldn't have otherwise said anything about it. It's good to get out of your comfort zone once in a while.

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Using our sub money to live in marble mansions, watching their fleet of gold-plated sports cars being washed in champagne by teams of Playboy models.
Dang, I'm in the wrong business...

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Using our sub money to live in marble mansions, watching their fleet of gold-plated sports cars being washed in champagne by teams of Playboy models.
And renting tigers. Rich people rent tigers, right?

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i think they spent it all on Mc donald Cheeseburgers

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Those comments mentioned about "this game is still going?" is someone inquiring about the game that wouldn't have otherwise said anything about it. It's good to get out of your comfort zone once in a while.
It's also evidence that for the past 8 years marketing hasn't been getting the word out to people that this game still exists. The advertising for this game over the years has been practically nonexistant. Anyone who says otherwise is deluding themselves.

There's no argument Marketing/PR did a fantastic job this time, but that doesn't make up for 8 years of silence. Only time will tell if this was a fluke or if they can turn this one success into a string of successes.

 

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It's also evidence that for the past 8 years marketing hasn't been getting the word out to people that this game still exists. The advertising for this game over the years has been practically nonexistant. Anyone who says otherwise is deluding themselves.

There's no argument Marketing/PR did a fantastic job this time, but that doesn't make up for 8 years of silence. Only time will tell if this was a fluke or if they can turn this one success into a string of successes.
The marketing department hasn't done it's job......yet the game is over 8 years old and still going.

Something must be working for that to happen, and it's not just word of mouth. This game will never have the budget Blizzard or other major developers can throw at their PR machines. Our marketing department has been trying different things, and though some have not worked (like in-game ads), there is more to PR than big-budget commercials or trying to put ads into magazines that are going belly up as the industry dies.

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I blame War Witch for this! Shame on you for doing such a great Job! She is in charge of marketing now right? >_>

Also, the vid was perfect except...well the voice did sound a bit cheesy at time but it was nice!


 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet

All the data in the world, skewed or not, isn't going to change the fact that I've never heard of them before today
Really? Gametrailers is huge...I'm impressed that you haven't heard of them...they've been out for a while now.


 

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Heh, that monkey-looking dude in the red and orange Warrior garb looks kinda familiar...

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The marketing department hasn't done it's job......yet the game is over 8 years old and still going.

Something must be working for that to happen, and it's not just word of mouth. This game will never have the budget Blizzard or other major developers can throw at their PR machines. Our marketing department has been trying different things, and though some have not worked (like in-game ads), there is more to PR than big-budget commercials or trying to put ads into magazines that are going belly up as the industry dies.
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From my in game experience there are less and less people playing, which is a combination of poor marketting and poor recent gameplay decisions.

Aside from the stand in the comic book store in the Big Bang Theory (Which I am not sure had much to do with those who run the game in all honesty) I have never seen this advertised anywhere.

I also find trailers a really strange way to advertise a game with not exactly state of the art graphics. Though will not complain at anything they do, as long as they are doing 'something'.

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