What is the story with those dominion ads??

Sombre · #1 April 22nd, 2008, 01:27 PM

We've already got the alternate costume of the lord of fertility. Do we really need more wang? Of course we do.

VedalkenBear · #2 April 22nd, 2008, 02:26 PM

Speaking for myself, I find the ads rather tasteless.

As far as 'hot women' liking these games, there is no logical reason why they shouldn't; one of my friends in high school was the head of the Dance Team (and looked it), and was the Captain of the Hurricanettes at UM her senior year there... and majored in Computer Engineering. If she didn't graduate at least Magna Cum Laude, I will be very much surprised.

Ironhawk · #3 April 22nd, 2008, 02:31 PM

Yeah, even after all the commentary about how its a joke and whatnot, I still find the ad offensive. I think if they'd just made even the slightest head-nod to dominions, like the Bog Beast furry doll or something, I would have been able to swallow it.

And to your comment Wokeye: yeah I understand the advertising concept of "any attention is good attention", but in this case I cant say I agree with it. I mean, this ad campaign has lowered the degree of respect that I have for Shrapnel as a whole. How can a campaign be considered a success if it is alienating a repeat buyer?

Evil Dave · #4 April 22nd, 2008, 04:07 PM

I found the ad (well, the "fluttering corner" bit) distracting, and added shrapnel to my noscript block list. In that sense, the ad has been a bad for them, since I no longer see any of their ads.

General hint to ad guys: annoying the customer is bad.

DonCorazon · #5 April 22nd, 2008, 04:14 PM

You guys must get offended a lot if you live in the US. Not sure how you could even watch TV here given all the programming you must find offensive, if the Dom ad falls into that category.

Sombre · #6 April 22nd, 2008, 04:24 PM

I don't find it offensive, I find it lame. I have little respect for people who would advertise dom3 that way, regardless of how successful.

Ironhawk · #7 April 22nd, 2008, 04:38 PM

DC, I see what you are saying - and the truth is that I dont really watch that many ads on TV (thanks to my DVR). But that said, I have come to expect low-brow advertising for low-brow products like Budweiser, etc. And occassionally I will get offended at something else anyway. Its just sad to think that Shrapnel, an indy game publisher is choosing to resort to this kind of advertising when they arent even competing in the mainstream space.

capnq · #8 April 23rd, 2008, 10:40 AM

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DonCorazon said: You guys must get offended a lot if you live in the US. Not sure how you could even watch TV here given all the programming you must find offensive, if the Dom ad falls into that category.

I don't watch much TV, either, although that's more because I find it either depressing or offensively stupid. I'm not sure I'm even going to bother buying a converter box when they switch to all digital broadcasting next February.