LGR - The Truth Behind Christmas Shopper Simulator
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Lucetube
Ah though its not at all clever to use memes as advertisement. Now if they got the Surgeon Simulator guys behind it I wouldn't mind since they actually make decent games. The jokes on them though I only buy and/or download indie games since they're the closest to how old PC and Video Games used to be before the Lovecraftian marketing hottotd got their tentacles into everything.
Sure games had a market but a dev team for a SNES game or Sega game could literally be five people passionate about games who made a product the parent company agreed to sell. Now its more of the Parent company paying smaller studios to make the games they think will sell based on broken, often stereotypical market demographics, made by developers who are more interested in a paycheck than making a game.
Before you say -Everyone has always been that way- No, games early on had very little chance of making you a buttload of money. it was an experimental medium and programmers were seeing what worked and what didn't. When they made a game they thought would sell based on marketing statistics we got Bubsy the Bobcat.
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Ah though its not at all clever to use memes as advertisement. Now if they got the Surgeon Simulator guys behind it I wouldn't mind since they actually make decent games. The jokes on them though I only buy and/or download indie games since they're the closest to how old PC and Video Games used to be before the Lovecraftian marketing hottotd got their tentacles into everything.
Sure games had a market but a dev team for a SNES game or Sega game could literally be five people passionate about games who made a product the parent company agreed to sell. Now its more of the Parent company paying smaller studios to make the games they think will sell based on broken, often stereotypical market demographics, made by developers who are more interested in a paycheck than making a game.
Before you say -Everyone has always been that way- No, games early on had very little chance of making you a buttload of money. it was an experimental medium and programmers were seeing what worked and what didn't. When they made a game they thought would sell based on marketing statistics we got Bubsy the Bobcat.
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Fox
While it's a little bad that companies are piggy backing off the success of fun indie games like Goat Simulator, I think it's more out of desperation than anything. Game is I think the only major UK video game retailer left, not counting people talking about Gamestop from the US wanting to open shops here, and while they've tried to make themselves more of an online presence too, people's go to is just Amazon for the fast shipping and usually cheaper prices. Not saying that it's completely morally okay, but if you look at it from their perspective as a declining company which had to be saved from bankruptcy a few years back, it's understandable why they'd release one big advert of a viral game.
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While it's a little bad that companies are piggy backing off the success of fun indie games like Goat Simulator, I think it's more out of desperation than anything. Game is I think the only major UK video game retailer left, not counting people talking about Gamestop from the US wanting to open shops here, and while they've tried to make themselves more of an online presence too, people's go to is just Amazon for the fast shipping and usually cheaper prices. Not saying that it's completely morally okay, but if you look at it from their perspective as a declining company which had to be saved from bankruptcy a few years back, it's understandable why they'd release one big advert of a viral game.
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PhrygianPhreak
I don't think anything they did was unethical, at least not in a way that was really harmful. The resource advertisement uses is attention. In my mind, yes one of their main goals was to have an effect on people that they weren't up front about, but at the same time it seems the gaming community had its fun with it, so what if the people who made it got money off of it. We just need to be more careful in the future about which games we give attention to because if more companies catch on to this idea, it could turn into a Greenlight sized problem real quick.
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I don't think anything they did was unethical, at least not in a way that was really harmful. The resource advertisement uses is attention. In my mind, yes one of their main goals was to have an effect on people that they weren't up front about, but at the same time it seems the gaming community had its fun with it, so what if the people who made it got money off of it. We just need to be more careful in the future about which games we give attention to because if more companies catch on to this idea, it could turn into a Greenlight sized problem real quick.
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Twitter
This is interesting as an experiment. Passive ads have existed in Movies for years (most famously with Man of Steel) and is part of the excepted fabric of the experience. For whatever reason this hasn't popped up in to many gaming properties yet and the odd games hasn't been received favorably. It will be interesting to see if more ad money starts coming to similar stream/LP friendly properties for example Coke machines turning up in horror games.
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This is interesting as an experiment. Passive ads have existed in Movies for years (most famously with Man of Steel) and is part of the excepted fabric of the experience. For whatever reason this hasn't popped up in to many gaming properties yet and the odd games hasn't been received favorably. It will be interesting to see if more ad money starts coming to similar stream/LP friendly properties for example Coke machines turning up in horror games.
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DoktorNuts
I know this has been said to death already, but personally i will never get the appeal of these -LOLSORANDUMB- broken physics games, when a bug or a glitch happens in a game it's usually funny because you (normally) don't expect that sort of thing to happen, but when you make a shitty game on purpose the joke doesn't work anymore.
I hope the novelty aspect of these kind of games dies soon (if it hasn't died already.
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I know this has been said to death already, but personally i will never get the appeal of these -LOLSORANDUMB- broken physics games, when a bug or a glitch happens in a game it's usually funny because you (normally) don't expect that sort of thing to happen, but when you make a shitty game on purpose the joke doesn't work anymore.
I hope the novelty aspect of these kind of games dies soon (if it hasn't died already.
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BlackburnBigdragon
I can't imagine that game bringing anything positive to that company. Associating your name with a pile of shit certainly won't reflect well on your company. It may get people talking about your company but they'll always associate it with that pile of shit and in the business world, first impressions are often everything. I think this business in their rush to get people to see their name has forgotten that.
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I can't imagine that game bringing anything positive to that company. Associating your name with a pile of shit certainly won't reflect well on your company. It may get people talking about your company but they'll always associate it with that pile of shit and in the business world, first impressions are often everything. I think this business in their rush to get people to see their name has forgotten that.
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Anthony
i hate going into game. the stores are just depressing to me, really expensive and it just seems like the staff are always pushing you for pre orders, useless gaming merchandise and other miscellanious crap that nobody in their right mind would want, plus all of the special edition versions of games happen to always be exclusive to them, im sure gamestop is similar for people in the usa and canada.
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i hate going into game. the stores are just depressing to me, really expensive and it just seems like the staff are always pushing you for pre orders, useless gaming merchandise and other miscellanious crap that nobody in their right mind would want, plus all of the special edition versions of games happen to always be exclusive to them, im sure gamestop is similar for people in the usa and canada.
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David
I've been a bit of a fan of yours for a while, and a big part of that is your seemingly insuppressible enthusiasm for all things PC and gaming related - I can honestly say that you don't come across as negative, and I too have done my time in retail so I know what you mean.
I can also say as a UK resident that no Game store I have ever been to resembles anything in this video.
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I've been a bit of a fan of yours for a while, and a big part of that is your seemingly insuppressible enthusiasm for all things PC and gaming related - I can honestly say that you don't come across as negative, and I too have done my time in retail so I know what you mean.
I can also say as a UK resident that no Game store I have ever been to resembles anything in this video.
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Demonic
I find it surprising and hilarious as it seems millions of people liked and wanted to see this game being played. and I've never heard of this game until seeing this video now in 2019.
While I've never seen anyone play Goat Simulator, I've at least heard about it when it came out because people were talking about it.
This game though? Not a peep.
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I find it surprising and hilarious as it seems millions of people liked and wanted to see this game being played. and I've never heard of this game until seeing this video now in 2019.
While I've never seen anyone play Goat Simulator, I've at least heard about it when it came out because people were talking about it.
This game though? Not a peep.
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Bastet
Are they back? Advertisement games, once a German staple with stuff like Telekommando, Captain Zins, Dunkle Schatten and the like?
BTW, maybe Clint should review some of these in a special, polish up his German on German point and click adventure games advertizing German companies produzing German products. Wunderbar! ;)
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Are they back? Advertisement games, once a German staple with stuff like Telekommando, Captain Zins, Dunkle Schatten and the like?
BTW, maybe Clint should review some of these in a special, polish up his German on German point and click adventure games advertizing German companies produzing German products. Wunderbar! ;)
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