What went wrong with Deadly Creatures

[theRepublic]

Gamerace said:

theRepublic said:

Gamerace said:

theRepublic said:
I'm surprised that people think that this game has zero appeal.

Ask yourself, "Who loves insects?"

Answer: Little boys

A few commercials on Nickelodeon, and this game could have been a lot bigger.

 

 Wrong.  Little boys like to collect and maybe kill bugs, not pretend to be a bug.  A pokemon bug game might work but not one where your cast as a bug.

Want proof?   Sectaurs.

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

In the 80's Coleco launched a toyline on the premise that boys like bugs.  It had HUGE marketing.  A cartoon.  A comic series.  You name it, it had it.  It was trumpeted as the next 'big' thing.   Stores bought a ton.  And it failed completely.

There could be a ton of different reasons why that failed.

This was a game that needed advertising outside of gaming websites.  It didn't get it, and has a bad couple of weeks.  No surprise.

Don't get me wrong - I've nothing against Deadly Creatures.  The developer put a lot of heart and effort into it and I'm sure it's a great game.

But come on.  Don't fool yourself.  It didn't have a couple of bad weeks.   CoDWaW had a couple of bad weeks.  DC bombed entirely, failing to even make the top 200 on launch.

Marketing would have helped, sure.  But even if it doubled sales it would have still been a complete sales failure.  And you don't waste marketing dollar on products with poor potential.

 

How am I fooling myself?  I didn't say I thought it would get better.  I was just saying the facts.  It had a bad two weeks.

As for marketing and sales potential, you can't expect people to buy something they don't know anything about.  It really surprises me how little advertising most publishers do.