What is the story with those dominion ads??

[Foodstamp]

@Llamabeast

Yeah..."Got Milk?"...."Got War?"...get it?

@everyone else

If that ninja is a woman, then we need to get her taken off here; that is exploitation.

[llamabeast]

I don't think I've heard "Got Milk?". Hmm, obviously that one was wasted on me. I thought the sunlight was just catching her lip.

[Endoperez]

The lack of i " Dominons 3." ninja add is really annoying. I don't mind the others, but that's sloppy.

[cupido2]

Perhaps they meant dominoes?
But it is time now to get back to the real problems of this world, like the crappy PD of Bandar Log that prevent it from winning any game.

[sector24]

At first I thought the "If you don't like it, GTFO" response was uncalled for. But well before that, Annette apologized and Tim explained the business reasons for the ads and their success. These arguments were met with "You don't mean it!" and "It's still exploitation and you're all evil bigots." So what exactly is there to say at that point? I guess nothing, which would have been better than an attempt at making light of the situation. Tim admitted that the best thing Shrapnel could have done was to not respond to the thread at all because of the clear lack of any rationality in some of the arguments.

I still wouldn't tell people to get the *uck out of here if they don't like it, but when you're met with that kind of opposition there's really nothing else to say. There are several bad ways to handle it, but no really good ones.

[Sombre]

Endoperez said:
The lack of i " Dominons 3." ninja add is really annoying. I don't mind the others, but that's sloppy.

All the adverts are sloppy. They look like they've just nabbed some random image off a google image search and added "I want my dominions 3" with an image editor. It isn't even an interesting font, probably just the default.


I guess I'm not being rational though, in the face of evil bigotry.

[VedalkenBear]

To state something here that I said to both Mr. Krol and Annette (and received different responses to), it is (theoretically) fine if you don't think the previous ads were offensive. However, the response to the criticism was that 'you shouldn't be offended'. This is equivalent to stating, "I will tell you what your morality should be." As for myself, I will not accept that.

Edit: Just saw 'male' ad. Just as bad (if not worse) than the aforementioned ads. Sheesh...

[Baalz]

Are you freaking kidding me? I've been ignoring this thread until I wondered what you guys have been talking about for 15 pages. Are there really so many people with such thin skin?

Even if you don't like pretty girls how in the world does "I don't think that advertisement will be effective" transition to "shrapnel hates us and I'm boycotting them"? Why does anybody suddenly care *so* much about the Shrapnel advertising campaign? Seems like a lot of people walking around looking for reasons to be offended.

I mean really, realize that the summary of much of this thread is 1) I don't like ads with pretty women and 2) I'm not going to buy Shrapnel games because they ignored my opinion on their advertising campaign.

Honestly, I have no idea how anyone could be regularly accessing the internet and find *that* ad so offensive, but as that's just my opinion I'll follow that up with a suggestion that you just block/ignore stuff that does offend you...that's how you generally should deal with people who have different values than you do.

[VedalkenBear]

The fact that you completely mis-summarized the main issues talked about in the thread shows that you did not really read the thread.

Your first statement is incorrect because I quite like the Ninja ad, so it's not _just_ pretty women. Read my other posts in this thread for an enlargement on this. The second statement is inaccurate because it's not that they ignored my opinion (though they did); it's the fact that I choose not to support people who use such advertising styles.

I think it should be considered a given that you should please people who you want to buy your product. As such, I would also consider it a given that people who you displease will not want to buy your product.

[Foodstamp]

llamabeast said:
I don't think I've heard "Got Milk?". Hmm, obviously that one was wasted on me. I thought the sunlight was just catching her lip.

Do a quick google of "Got Milk?", click images, and all will become clear.

Coincidentally, we talked about the "Got Milk?" ad in marketing this semester. In Mexico, they tried running the "Got Milk?" ad which I believe would translate to "Tiene Leche?". What they didn't know was that the literal translation in Spanish is "Are you lactating?".