Valve Says Ad Agencies Are "Worthless," Going it Alone for Portal 2
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Just use shots of gameplay and a little of GLaDOS's trademark brand of crazy.
I garantee, anyone even vaguley interested will take note if it's anything as good as the first one. Advertising is bullshit, you cant show what a purfume smells like, or how a car drives. But you can show some awesome advanced portal techniques.
Valve will do well at this, I still cant watch the trailer without getting excited.
I garantee, anyone even vaguley interested will take note if it's anything as good as the first one. Advertising is bullshit, you cant show what a purfume smells like, or how a car drives. But you can show some awesome advanced portal techniques.
Valve will do well at this, I still cant watch the trailer without getting excited.
Good for valve. A marketing agency would promptly stick chell in a bikini, zoom in on her tits, put it on a poster, then make a beach volleyball ad of that, then they'd stick in portal gun dildo references or something. On a similar note, fuck you EA marketing department.
Bah. Ads don't sell games, word of mouth sells games. Getting mentioned by a website or by the gaming public sells more games then advertising does and colors people's opinions better.
Quite the opposite, actually. According to Newell the PS3 version will be the best of all.Calico93 said:
Does Valve even need an ad agency? Even if you don't like their games for whatever reason, you kind of can't help but see everywhere when they have a new game in development
Please start a trend
Please start a trend
Please, please, please...
*Closes eyes and crosses fingers*
Please start a trend
Please, please, please...
*Closes eyes and crosses fingers*
Yeah I generally hate video game Tv commercials. Well, to be fair I generally hate all TV commercials.
Has anybody noticed that on Comedy Central more than anywhere else they spam video game ads? Especially during shows like South Park. I've seen commercial breaks during South Park where 5/6 ads are for video games. Sometimes they show the same ad for the same game twice in one break.
Has anybody noticed that on Comedy Central more than anywhere else they spam video game ads? Especially during shows like South Park. I've seen commercial breaks during South Park where 5/6 ads are for video games. Sometimes they show the same ad for the same game twice in one break.
I've noticed ad agencies are not creative, and only serve one purpose. When a company enlists an agency for advertisements, they're not asking for creativity, they're paying for "rights" to have the generic cookie-cutter ad.
You've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. Especially movies, that use the same formula for previews. People buy what they're familiar with, and what's popular. So when someone purchases "rights" to have the generic advertisement, they're basically just saying, we want to be generic and uninspired, and by buying 'Generic Ad Formula A', we will have guaranteed sales with the robotic consumer public.
You've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. Especially movies, that use the same formula for previews. People buy what they're familiar with, and what's popular. So when someone purchases "rights" to have the generic advertisement, they're basically just saying, we want to be generic and uninspired, and by buying 'Generic Ad Formula A', we will have guaranteed sales with the robotic consumer public.