Game Informer Push - Page 2

Johari · 2011-12-26, 04:45 PM

I put in a good word into their news/tips area.

Bittermen · 2011-12-26, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by Tikuto

I do believe editor of PC Gamer is already heavily eye-locked on PlanetSide 2.

And massively.

Tikuto · 2012-01-03, 02:47 PM

Come now, people. Let's not allow a good cause to falter.

'Letter to the Editor'

Trolltaxi · 2012-01-03, 03:06 PM

I'd wait with that.

Planetside is not a successful brand on the gaming market. Sony's reputation is still too low even 3/4 year after the hacking accident. There are way too many AAA titles recently published and AAA games are close to release too.

This is pretty much a 'one-shot' situtation. If Sony is unable or unwilling to step into the light with fantastic trailers/ingame movies, unwilling to start the marketing machine, then mass-mailing major gaming site may even backfire.

Just pretend you run a gamer site. You want to offer content to your readers, but what can you post about Planetside2? A trailer (rather a teaser) that every gamer calls a Halo-spinoff, some turnaround videos that doesn't really have a message just a 'generic sci-fi equipment modelled in Maja or whatever'. Even the sound effects are recycled. They can arrange an interview, but those have rather small effect on alluring new players (would you even care with an interview of a DOTA2 dev? no.).

The small amount of content combined with the pre-beta state of the game + an unsuccessful (although quite accepted by the gaming press when it came out) title is not something you want to waste your efforts on.

In the current state you can only recommend the game to your friends or in a group where you have pretty high standings.

Massmailing magazines is not the best tactic yet. Social networking is the key atm.

We must wait till we have something to "shoot with", some ammo SOE provides us. But this is not the moment to start a campaign yet.

LZachariah · 2012-01-03, 10:00 PM

Beautifully said, Trolltaxi; I completely agree with what you're saying here. We should wait: we've got one good chance to hype this game. Apart from that, we're lucky that so many game magazines and websites keep running articles on Planetside 2; let that be enough for now :-)

~Zachariah

HELLFISH88 · 2012-01-03, 11:55 PM

Troll is right. We don't want to annoy people or ruin our "shock value"

yonman · 2012-01-04, 03:01 AM

Just to point out that social networking need not be only about telling all your gaming friends about ps2 - it can also be about getting friendly with your favorite gaming website's editors or staff in their forums or w/e. So when the time comes, they'll hear it from someone they know and not some mass mailing stranger.

Infiltration is key