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[RosaAquafire]

I'd sort of given it to the start of February to start really ramping up. This was right about where I'd gotten into DA:O, and I remember watching gameplay footage videos, character trailers for every character except Zevran and Oghren, origin trailers for all the Warden options, plot trailers for all the different locations. Everyone had guessed the VAs for most of the characters and everyone was bristling with excitement.

And let's not for THIS IS THE NEW **** and all its fallout.

I would definitely be okay with even something like that, right now. Because I still feel like I don't know anything about the characters or the Free Marches or anything other than if I press a button, something awesome is apparently going to happen.

come on, bw, where's the marketting? We're barely more than a month out, here!

[ankuu]

This thread is going to be shut down in an instant as this has been asked before a number of times...i don't know what they are doing, but i sure do hope they know what they are doing.

Here is the other thread + devs responses.
http://social.biowar...1/index/5852878

Modifié par ankuu, 02 février 2011 - 08:41 .

[eyesofastorm]

It's kind of funny actually. I mean I know it can't be true, but it's almost like EA wants the DA franchise to fail. They have had the worst marketing I've ever seen... consistently. As they say, "Once is an Accident, twice is a Coincidence, and three times is a Pattern." I think we're well passed three times. LOL

[andar91]

I'm expecting the marketing to ramp up over the next few weeks. Hopefully we'll have at least one more update this week.

[Khayness]

They don't need marketing, they have a Plan.

[PsychoBlonde]

We got all that stuff for Origins because the ship date got held back for SIX MONTHS. There is plenty of marketing out there. Heck, there's been a DA2 article on the front page of The Escapist for weeks (a new one every few days, too), and I haven't seen anything like that for anything else atm.

[BeardedNinja]

oh, that works, criticize the marketing get a lockdown lol

Anyway I agree, this is making me question my pre-order, is the team not confident enough to show the crap out of their awesome product, or are they hoping the hype from the last game sells the product for them?

[Faust1979]

why worry about the marketing we know when the game comes out I don't follow all the trailers and stuff anyways

[DPB]

BeardedNinja wrote...

oh, that works, criticize the marketing get a lockdown lol
Anyway I agree, this is making me question my pre-order, is the team not confident enough to show the crap out of their awesome product, or are they hoping the hype from the last game sells the product for them?

Well, it's not the development team that gets to decide what's shown. That's the marketing department, the same people responsible for all those awful catchphrases and continually misrepresenting their games. The developers might be very proud of their work, but it doesn't mean they have much influence over what we get to see.

[Malevolence65]

The last good info we got was 3 weeks ago.

[tondratic]

I dunno, while I agree with the OP about  the marketing, I'm kinda glad that they're keeping mostly mum about the plot and characters.

I've had most of DAO spoiled for me; things like the 3 outcomes for the Dalish quest and the secret companion. Granted, this can be attributed to the extremely long dev cycle and the delay, but still. I'm not very good at restraining myself, spoiler-wise, so I'm a bit grateful for the current pace of the info drip.

My anticipation for DA2 is all the way up there, but I want to see how much of a difference to the way I recieve the new story a (relative) lack of spoilers will have.

[RosaAquafire]

Malevolence65 wrote...

The last good info we got was 3 weeks ago.

Yep. The last thing I saw that got me excired for DA2 at all was the Dev Diary for the Story. That got me right out of my seat. After that ... nothing. My energy is flagging hard

[pumpkinman13]

if by marketing you mean generally conveying the information... well... it would appear for some retailers at least the information has NOT been accurately conveyed. Micromania and Fnac in France have no knowledge at all about the two promo items. Its not so much that they have "opted out of the promotion" but that they didn't know about it at all.



This is getting crazy.

[Tamahome560]

They chillin' somewhere on a beach, sipping 'em cocktails with umbrellas and sexin' 'em ladies while we wait for some marketing.



On a serious note: They marketing for DA2 is lacking in my opinion as well. Even if they start now it's not going to be as good as a marketing campaign that is less concentrated and over longer period of time.

[Saibh]

eyesofastorm wrote...

It's kind of funny actually. I mean I know it can't be true, but it's almost like EA wants the DA franchise to fail. They have had the worst marketing I've ever seen... consistently. As they say, "Once is an Accident, twice is a Coincidence, and three times is a Pattern." I think we're well passed three times. LOL

I didn't particularly condone the marketing from DAO. And it did well. The numbers will tell.

For the record, I don't really like how the marketing team has handled things.

[BeardedNinja]

dbankier wrote...

BeardedNinja wrote...

oh, that works, criticize the marketing get a lockdown lol
Anyway I agree, this is making me question my pre-order, is the team not confident enough to show the crap out of their awesome product, or are they hoping the hype from the last game sells the product for them?

Well, it's not the development team that gets to decide what's shown. That's the marketing department, the same people responsible for all those awful catchphrases and continually misrepresenting their games. The developers might be very proud of their work, but it doesn't mean they have much influence over what we get to see.

True, I know marketing and dev teams are separate, but  I'm still frustrated w/ the marketing.  Really this is like from 1984, they're the Department of Marketing, making them anti-marketing. lol. They can show things and announce companions without ruining the story, easily.

[RosaAquafire]

RitaChe wrote...

I dunno, while I agree with the OP about  the marketing, I'm kinda glad that they're keeping mostly mum about the plot and characters.

I've had most of DAO spoiled for me; things like the 3 outcomes for the Dalish quest and the secret companion. Granted, this can be attributed to the extremely long dev cycle and the delay, but still. I'm not very good at restraining myself, spoiler-wise, so I'm a bit grateful for the current pace of the info drip.

My anticipation for DA2 is all the way up there, but I want to see how much of a difference to the way I recieve the new story a (relative) lack of spoilers will have.

This is so weird to me! I mean, I'm not doubting you, but I read/watched almost everything official except the leaked codex pages in the week before release, and I didn't even know the Wardens got wiped out at Ostagar when I got the game in hand.

[Brockololly]

Saibh wrote...

eyesofastorm wrote...

It's kind of funny actually. I mean I know it can't be true, but it's almost like EA wants the DA franchise to fail. They have had the worst marketing I've ever seen... consistently. As they say, "Once is an Accident, twice is a Coincidence, and three times is a Pattern." I think we're well passed three times. LOL

I didn't particularly condone the marketing from DAO. And it did well. The numbers will tell.

For the record, I don't really like how the marketing team has handled things.

But one has to wonder whether Origins did well because of the marketing or in spite of it?

Certainly, I may have DA2 preordered, but it sure as hell isn't because the marketing has sold me on it. Its because Origins was a great game.

[blothulfur]

Were we spoiled by the amount of marketing we got for origins, I mean there was a ton of stuff they did to keep it in the public eye while they worked on the console port and quite a lot of stuff released before when it was just for pc.

As a skinflint I can't help but feel that all the advertising for origins must have been hideously expensive, but I was rather partial to the medieval babes thing they did down in the smoke.

[Guitar-Hero]

Khayness wrote...

They don't need marketing, they have a Plan.

A glimse of that plan would be nice though, i support BW and almost every decision they make, but this is.. beyond weird, i would think it is marketing 1-0-1 to get your product out to as many consumers as possible

[Nozybidaj]

What's with the 2/1/2011 banners?

[RosaAquafire]

Brockololly wrote...

Certainly, I may have DA2 preordered, but it sure as hell isn't because the marketing has sold me on it. Its because Origins was a great game.

Absolutely, this.

To be honest, what made me go out and preorder DA:O was the character trailers. I know a lot of other people feel the same. I think BW is losing some sales if they NEVER put some of those out ...

Hopefully I'm just doomsaying and they're working on it as we speak

[Icinix]

I didn't like the marketing for DA:O.

I didn't like SOME of the marketing for ME2.

I don't like the marketing for DA2.



..but those two first games were my two biggest played games through last year..and indeed even up to now and I'm still massively pumped for DA2.



Maybe after the stink kicked up by the horrible, horrible, terribly horrible heavy rock trailers of DA:O the marketing crew got together and went..'****, now what do we do? I'm all out of ideas.'

[BeardedNinja]

Nozybidaj wrote...

What's with the 2/1/2011 banners?

Just go look at the giant 170+ page Demo discussion thread on the front page, the first page should answer some questions lol