THQ knows how to market a game

[Minos]

Tera Patrick is so fucking ugly though...

[Taylor]

There are two things more depressing than a games company hiring a hardcore porn star to market a game: the pathetic comments from horny teenagers celebrating it, and thusly the fact the stunt has worked perfectly.

hmm..boobs! i'm sold!

It’d be like chucking a sausage down the M4.

[FrieChamp]

Tera Patrick is so fucking ugly though...

No, you are Brazilian. Your scales for brunettes are messed up, you are spoilt that's what you are!

[-HP-]

lulz

[hessi]

you mean silicone boobs. loose!

[PhilipK]

well, that was emberrassing...

[Inveramsay]

It is simply brilliant because it is something else, it has humour and self distance, something most game trailers lack.

[Sentura]

i laughed. i guess this will work well on those pubescent teenagers that play tomb raider with one hand in the pocket sweating furiously as the distant sound of water dripping on wood can be heard from inside their pants.

[Izuno]

Other than attracting attention which has obvious PR/marketing benefits, what actual value will she add to the project? Even if her likeness is in the game, what value does she provide as a producer? I'm not saying she does not offer value, I'd just like to know more about what her contribution to the creative design and production process is. :science:

[Thrik]

I'm fairly certain the producer thing is just a joke. We've already established the video is parodying the Jade Raymond Assassin's Creed Dev Diaries.

[FrieChamp]

Yea I don't think she has any influence on the game itself, what does she know about videogames...the question is how many people will get that it's a parody. Either way, people are talking about it, so they must have done something right.

[Minos]

i laughed. i guess this will work well on those pubescent teenagers that play tomb raider with one hand in the pocket sweating furiously as the distant sound of water dripping on wood can be heard from inside their pants.

lol

[Taylor]

Yea I don't think she has any influence on the game itself, what does she know about videogames...the question is how many people will get that it's a parody.

Even if they've not seen what the movie is parodying, someone would have to be pretty thick to believe she's actually a producer on the title.

Either way, people are talking about it, so they must have done something right.

People are talking about it, but I wouldn’t celebrate what they’ve done. Wooing teenagers with some sultry harlot isn’t commendable. Neither is more stupid shit lampooning Jade Raymond. This is going to provide amble ammo for the people who don’t value the industry or see it as some kind of youth corrupting evil entity. The “other media sell with boobs :roll:” argument doesn’t work either: she’s not a model, type her name into google image search at work and you’re fired. Everyone complains the industry isn’t treated with the respect it deserves and is unfairly considered immature, you have people preaching nonsense phrases like "games are art," and "games with emotion," and now you have a second rate GTA-clone with PS2-level graphics mocking other developers with some screeching plastic harpy.

[FrieChamp]

See this from a marketing perspective. You got a sequel to a "mediocre/okay title" to promote, how do you get customer's attention in the flood of other console games? If we release a trailer, how many people will even watch it? Now I don't know the exact chain of thoughts by the THQ folks, but they found something to create buzz:

1.) pornstar promoting a videogame (why does noone think of the kids???)

2.) "special producer" title (does she work on the game??)

3.) connection to jade raymond (parody)

So people watch it and see beside the occasional clevage shot the gameplay footage and go "hey you can throw a dude in a jet engine in this game, i wanna do that" CA-CHING!

So this whole thing might not be that silly in retrospective, from a publisher's stand point mind you, because as a developer I think the game should speak for itself and gain your attention, not someone with big jugs.

[Taylor]

It’s clear it was to cause a stir and the contents are attractive to the average gamer. Like I said in my previous post, it seems like the marketing stunt has been successful. My point wasn’t so much that it was ‘silly’ because it didn’t work, but ‘silly’ because it makes a very easy target for every ignorant politician, parent, news outlet and crazy fundamentalist looking to tarnish the gaming industry. And it doesn’t matter how tongue-in-cheek it may have been, people claim games responsible for murder, rape, reading dysfunction, apathy, blasphemy etc. and now they’re advertising games with porn stars...

I don’t want to come across that I’m outraged; it was more of a verbal sigh at how irresponsible it was.