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darkenergy on 15 August 2015

This is funny to alot of people including me but there are people overreacting to this.



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darkenergy on 15 August 2015
DerNebel said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
I enjoyed the copious amount of salt this generated on GAF.

Did you also enjoy the dickishness that parts of the xbox community showed in response to this? This video created nothing but a huge amount of fanboyism on all fronts.


Nintendo and Sony fans will do the same thing if either Nintendo or Sony make a video like this, you and others are overreacting to this video.



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Teeqoz on 15 August 2015
MoHasanie said:
I don't get it.


I'll explain. It is stealth advertising for Star Wars Battlefront, because Sony paid for marketing rights. They did the same with Destiny last year, which was also coincidentally done by Xbox UK.

I get the joke from a gamer perspective, but from a business perspective stuff like this pisses me off because it is so blatantly obvious that they're disrespecting deals done by other companies, and Xbox does the exact same type of deals. Extremely unprofessional of Xbox UK, it's pitiful that they feel the need to resort to tricks like that.

Can't wait for people to call me out for overreacting because it's "just a joke" though



DerNebel on 15 August 2015
darkenergy said:
DerNebel said:

Did you also enjoy the dickishness that parts of the xbox community showed in response to this? This video created nothing but a huge amount of fanboyism on all fronts.


Nintendo and Sony fans will do the same thing if either Nintendo or Sony make a video like this, you and others are overreacting to this video.

I'm not reacting to the video at all, just saying that no fanbase has been reacting gracefully to the video.



d21lewis on 15 August 2015
bananaking21 said:
This is by far and wide the most idiotic video i ever seen. I couldnt believe that MS actually made that. Talk about your bad PR

All of the companies have done stupid stuff like this.  They're just trying to have fun.



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darkenergy on 15 August 2015
DerNebel said:
darkenergy said:


Nintendo and Sony fans will do the same thing if either Nintendo or Sony make a video like this, you and others are overreacting to this video.

I'm not reacting to the video at all, just saying that no fanbase has been reacting gracefully to the video.


Well some people did enjoyed it and laugh so there's that.



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MoHasanie on 15 August 2015
Teeqoz said:
MoHasanie said:
I don't get it.


I'll explain. It is stealth advertising for Star Wars Battlefront, because Sony paid for marketing rights. They did the same with Destiny last year, which was also coincidentally done by Xbox UK.

I get the joke from a gamer perspective, but from a business perspective stuff like this pisses me off because it is so blatantly obvious that they're disrespecting deals done by other companies, and Xbox does the exact same type of deals. Extremely unprofessional of Xbox UK, it's pitiful that they feel the need to resort to tricks like that.

Can't wait for people to call me out for overreacting because it's "just a joke" though

Well if that's the case then its a bad ad. Has Sony or Nintendo don't anything similar before?



    

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Teeqoz on 15 August 2015
MoHasanie said:
Teeqoz said:


I'll explain. It is stealth advertising for Star Wars Battlefront, because Sony paid for marketing rights. They did the same with Destiny last year, which was also coincidentally done by Xbox UK.

I get the joke from a gamer perspective, but from a business perspective stuff like this pisses me off because it is so blatantly obvious that they're disrespecting deals done by other companies, and Xbox does the exact same type of deals. Extremely unprofessional of Xbox UK, it's pitiful that they feel the need to resort to tricks like that.

Can't wait for people to call me out for overreacting because it's "just a joke" though

Well if that's the case then its a bad ad. Has Sony or Nintendo don't anything similar before?


Not that I've heard of, but then I only really started following gaming news in 2014, so what would I know.



KiigelHeart on 15 August 2015
Teeqoz said:
MoHasanie said:
I don't get it.


I'll explain. It is stealth advertising for Star Wars Battlefront, because Sony paid for marketing rights. They did the same with Destiny last year, which was also coincidentally done by Xbox UK.

I get the joke from a gamer perspective, but from a business perspective stuff like this pisses me off because it is so blatantly obvious that they're disrespecting deals done by other companies, and Xbox does the exact same type of deals. Extremely unprofessional of Xbox UK, it's pitiful that they feel the need to resort to tricks like that.

Can't wait for people to call me out for overreacting because it's "just a joke" though

Well it is just a joke and quite clever too 😊 there's really no need for us gamers to be pissed off of whatever marketing deals these companies make. Sony should have come up with something similar too.



Metallox on 15 August 2015

It seems like only Nintendo can get this kind of stuff right. Or... maybe not? O_O



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