News: FPS Guru Live Interview Friday - Page 10

Mastachief · 2012-05-13, 07:40 AM

Shogun Germanys games market is tiny compared to the uk

2008 UK $5.59bn of games sales
2008 France $4.05bn of games sales
2008 Germany $3.8bn of games sales

You only have to look at Planetside to see that its probably around 65% of the Werner server comprised of UK players.

So the Prosat deal does not make too much sense to me as it will most likely completely over look the UK market

Kipper · 2012-05-13, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by Mastachief

So the Prosat deal does not make too much sense to me as it will most likely completely over look the UK market

It might be that I don't watch the right timing slots, or I record most of what I watch and then skip the ads - but I almost never see advertising for anything but the biggest games on TV, and even then only at Christmas.

It would be welcome, but I think the internet is probably the best place to advertise an online game - also, getting out there and generating some viral buzz through communities, review sites etc - which is already starting to happen.

Stew · 2012-05-13, 08:20 AM

This as been the worst live stream interview ive ever seen in my life !

We were asking questions and he never stop to ask random noobs questions when we ask specifics !

I tough he was going to say whats u guys drink and eat lollllllllllll !

Shogun · 2012-05-13, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by Mastachief

Shogun Germanys games market is tiny compared to the uk

only because half of the uk sales are germans who import the uncut version from the uk. german versions are always cut and worthless. so we have to import from the uk or austria. same for movies.

the werner stats are no indicator for the market because the game wasn´t advertized at all and almost nobody in germany knew about this game. i only found it because soe had an ad-banner for it on the starwars galaxys website some day.

MacXXcaM · 2012-05-13, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by Shogun

i don´t know anything about pro7´s ambition to advertize in the rest of europe. in germany they have quite a number of tv channels and the main channel (pro 7) has a lot of ads for their f2p games. that are low quality f2p games like dark orbit, a testdrive game and some pirate games that mostly look like browsergames. no AAA(A) games in their portfolio so far.

Oh, just yesterday I saw a Need for Speed ad on Pro7. I was quite surprised by a title like that in their portfolio.

the werner stats are no indicator for the market because the game wasn´t advertized at all and almost nobody in germany knew about this game. i only found it because soe had an ad-banner for it on the starwars galaxys website some day.

Same for me. I only found out by coincidence while googleing (or altavista-ing back then ^^) for MMO titles. I told some friends about it and they haven't heard of it either but were very grateful I told them

Ceska · 2012-05-13, 10:53 AM

I knew about the game in France thanks to a magazine with a special 2001 E3 cover. I followed the game. But didn't saw much about it afterward.

Shogun · 2012-05-13, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by Mastachief

2008 UK $5.59bn of games sales
2008 France $4.05bn of games sales
2008 Germany £3.8bn of games sales

now i see what you did there

you know that £3.8bn is actually more than $5.59bn?

Tikuto · 2012-05-13, 12:21 PM

I see where they're doing multiple things distasteful on customization. Strangely enough, I expected potential fail from customization and I'm starting to believe that expectation is actually happening. Basically, I suspect they've never thought-through customization thoroughly enough at all...

Aw man...

Probably the biggest downer since discovering PlanetSide 2 started development.

Tatwi · 2012-05-13, 12:45 PM

Can someone go back in time and make this an interview with Totalbiscuit instead? Even on the ye ole interweb, journalism requires skill...

Mastachief · 2012-05-13, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Shogun

now i see what you did there

you know that £3.8bn is actually more than $5.59bn?

Simple typo should read $3.8bn.

You are wrong, buying one or too violent games doesnt sway the numbers. Also planetside was not promoted anywhere, the numbers i put at 65% uk players on werner is a hugely cautious estimate, if i used the 3 outfits i was part of as an average i'd say its closer to 70-75% UK| 10% NL | 15% mix France/germany/austria/israel/denmark/norway/finland/USA.

Like i said is seems odd to have gone with a company that does nothing in the UK

outsider · 2012-05-14, 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by Crazyduckling

Tray: But the bottom line, like Matt was saying: We don't want people...(stream lag)...a crappy experience during beta. I mean, obviously its going to be buggy. I mean, but that's the whole point. We need to test it, but we don't want it to be so buggy that people are turned off by it. So, give us the time to make it right, and when you get it you can give us some feedback then. But until then, stop asking.

I played planetside for 2 years everyday. I still played it after core combat. I even played it after the mechas stomped around... never complained. Out of respect for TRay and Matt I'm not asking, I'm just .. you know .. putting it out there

Once, my toon got bugged and I gained health every time I got shot by the enemy. Even after I figured out how to die ( from 14 million health! ) and reset, I kept getting nasty tells for weeks and weeks. and despite the hate I still didn't quit!

Once, I looted a chaingun and discovered it had infinite range and a cone of fire of 1 pixel. I threw it out! and stood over it until it despawned!

You know I'm just sayin'.. just putting it out there. Respect and all.

But we kept coming back, when it was laggy, when it was buggy, when it was hacked, when it was empty and we're still here!

you know, out of respect not askin', just putting it out there, just so you know

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I won't say anything more on that one.

Ruffdog · 2012-05-14, 01:56 AM

Thanks ducking for taking the time to post all that

Kipper · 2012-05-15, 09:57 AM

I just watched the first two 3 minute segments over on the FPSGuru site, but I couldn't bear to watch any more

It was pretty clear that T-Ray and Higby were enthusiastic and up for some good PS related banter, but the guy doing the interview was utterly disorganised and didn't seem interested.... If he'd done some background research I think even those of us who are avidly following development might have learnt something new.

If only it were possible to get someone (maybe from here) with a bit of enthusiasm and knowledge to re-interview - even one that only featured video/audio from the devs so that the whole video could be re-edited and published by other gaming sites.... C'mon SOE, make it happen