What is the story with those dominion ads??

[Ironhawk]

LOL man yeah did I miss the thread on this one!

I love the suggestion that she should be hugging a furry Bog Beast doll. That would definitely make the ad move from the realm of offensive to just funny for me At least it would have some kind of relevant content.

[Carkaton]

Yeah, ask budweiser or godaddy or doritoes if advertising with hot chicks that has nothing to do with the product is a stupid marketing stunt.

[Ironhawk]

In those ads, at the least, they have some product imagery or some other kind of attempt to link the women with the product. Here its just stripped bare to into some kind of ridiculous pretense for advertising.

[NTJedi]

Well I estimate the shrapnel marketing team examined the characteristics of gamers which enjoy TBS games. Based on the DOM_3 ads I can only assume the marketing team noticed 99.8% of the TBS gamers were male. Knowing males have a strong visual drive they decided to give it a test. I estimate within 6 months the marketing team will know whether or not it's working... if it's working then we'll see the ads continue.

Personally I feel a more successful ad would have a photo of one of the geniuses within history or a wise war figure within history combined with a simple phrase:
"Here's a strategy game which would even challenge {historical genius}. "

[Cerlin]

Well obviously they are trying to take advantage of the stereotype that gamers, who are assumed to all be pre-pubescent boys living at home, cannot resist the siren lure of a half naked woman. No matter what she sells. I have been offended by this even when I WAS a younger, and the feeling only gets stronger. Its not that the woman arent attractive, its like Ironhawk says, the blatant commercialism is offensive to assume that we are all so easily manipulated.

[Wrana]

Well, we ARE easily manipulated. BUT - these ads are shown to people who already bought the game for the most part.
I would take it in the context of Annette's pseudo-news releases about "Succubi in Heat", etc. If she wants to use her position to make fun of everybody, herself and this position included - that's fine by me. However, I have a pair of corporate-hippies among my friends, so may be too omnivorous...

[DonCorazon]

Hot woman who wants the quintessential geek product is what makes this ad funny and not just gratuitous.

[Renojustin]

It's not funny. It's not effective. It's just plain stupid.

As Turn Based Strategy players in general, and Dominions 3 players in particular, I think I speak for all of us when I say that we prefer substance over graphics.

[Mozkito]

Cerlin said:
Well obviously they are trying to take advantage of the stereotype that gamers, who are assumed to all be pre-pubescent boys living at home, cannot resist the siren lure of a half naked woman.

You have no idea how many times I clicked those ads

[Endoperez]

And I have no idea what ads have to do with the thing advertised.

A good ad may get me interested, and if I'm interested, I'll buy a game. A bad ad won't make me interested, so I won't buy the game. If I'm interested in a game and see an ad, it doesn't really do anything, does it?

What I don't understand is a bad ad making people NOT buy a game they already are interested in. This last one is what people claim Shrapnel has done. Well, whatever, but to me the ad matters less than the pretty pictures in the cover, and those don't matter at all.


As I said, I have no idea what ads have to do with the advertised product - it existed before the ads, and it will be the same even after the ads. It's the same, nothing has changed. I'm tired and rambling, but why would anyone be interested in ads, except to laugh at them and make fake bog beast plushie ads, which this threads hasn't had at all.