| DerNebel said: Square Enix has been moving towards allowing monetization, their newer games allow for monetization. Who knows why they feel something like FFVIII deserves to be flagged. I'm not going on a tangent at all, you're just not willing to face the facts, I mean seriously do you even realize what you're arguing here? I can't even fathom how mindboggingly out of touch it is what I have to read here. Do you not realize that a) Marketing is shifting more and more towards the online space which hugely includes Youtube? So what is marketed more online now is marketed less in the traditional media. b) There is absolutely no way to make a direct 100% connection between certain marketing measures and exact numbers of sales? You can't say things like "this TV ad sold 1500 units of this game" c) No marketing measure in the world guarantees success? There's tons of other factors that influence that stuff, but that doesn't mean that those marketing measures aren't still good and valuable and that they work. ??? Oh OK, sure let's just completely turn off our brains and act as if the reason that Skate 3 got so much of a raise in demand in the UK in its fourth year that it had to go into reprint was because of some weird word of mouth that of course had nothing to do with the internet but just somehow manifested itself on its own, rather than being thanks to this happening: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=skate+3&search_sort=video_view_count Yeah that totally makes sense... Oh and btw. you also expertly ignored all the other examples I gave, what about Slenderman or Amnesia? Five Nights at Freddy? P.T? Do you think LoL/Dota 2s ridiculous popularity aren't helped by the fact that they are huge with streamers? What about Minecraft? Or Garry's Mod? |
You are going off on a tangent as it's the only way to make your argument seem bigger then it is, you've done the exact same thing with your argument with someone else who has said exactly what I'm getting at in that it's not your own product so the excuse that it's advertising so you deserve to make money off it is laughable, the reason I'm ignoring some of your argument is because it's not worth addressing what isn't relevant to what I said.
I think your brain is already turned off tbh, you're arguing how intended marketing doesn't guarantee this and that then turn around and try to argue a YT video increases sales etc... You do know what word of mouth means right? People talking to their friends, people recommending of forums, magazines and media outlets doing articles/blogs about the game etc... it's been going on for years before YT, I didn't ignore other examples as they fall into the same category you've just chosen to look at the replies in your own angle to tell yourself I've ignored them.
