What is the story with those dominion ads??

[lch]

Wrana said:
It was the 1st April post, for Cthulhu's sake!
You may find the humor in question a sick one, but don't say that you didn't get it from acronims included (the engine mentioned here was named LAME, iirc!).

Huh, what are you referring to? The Aprils fools forum thread? I didn't really read that one, just glanced over it.

I was just ad-libbing. But if things progress in that direction you may soon crown me as the great visionary that foretold those changes.

[Kristoffer O]

vfb said:
I have sufficient faith in the developers to believe that this marketing campaign is going to have no influence on the game itself.

Oh dear, it has had an effect!
I'm sorry! There will be some male nudity in the new patch

[Sombre]

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

[VedalkenBear]

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.

[DonCorazon]

Renojustin said:
It's not funny. It's not effective. It's just plain stupid.

As Turn Based Strategy players in general, and Dominions 3 players in particular, I think I speak for all of us when I say that we prefer substance over graphics.

Well funny is a matter of opinion in most countries luckily.

I tend not to take things too seriously and find it amusing to see a beautiful scantily clad woman craving an extremely complex turn based computer strategy game that I cannot even convince some of my geekier friends to attempt to learn. And I admit that I am probably at my geekiest when I spend time combing through the forums trying to figure out the best way to kit out Rhuax, Elemental King of Fire to help aid the Jomonese nation fend off the evil Lord Fiddlesticks of Pythium.

But hey, if you want to be all serious and let this offend your sensibilities because we are braniac strategy gamers only interested in intellectual content then cheers! You are definitely in the target demographic.

[Lingchih]

I've always taken the as a joke, and find them quite funny.

[AlgaeNymph]

Although the model in the first ad has nice legs, I'd also like to see pictures of scantly clad men, pretty-boy underwear model types. Once you have naked boys, it won't be sexist anymore.

Hope Scott's blog post alerts him of new comments.

[vfb]

DryaUnda said:
Although the model in the first ad has nice legs, I'd also like to see pictures of scantly clad men, pretty-boy underwear model types. Once you have naked boys, it won't be sexist anymore. .

That's been taken care of:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...ev=#Post595375

[Renojustin]

My biggest gripe with the ad isn't the obnoxious patronism or blatant, and ineffective, attempt at being 'sexy', it's the fact that the woman in question looks like some kind of retarded bondage Borg.

[Endoperez]

Renojustin said:
My biggest gripe with the ad isn't the obnoxious patronism or blatant, and ineffective, attempt at being 'sexy', it's the fact that the woman in question looks like some kind of retarded bondage Borg.

Please don't prove him wrong by posting retarded bondage Borg porn.


These ads are visible everywhere on Shrapnel Games' forum. The fact that the Dominions community ALSO sees them is insignificant - the target audience seems to be people who have bought other games published by Shrapnel Games. I'd much rater like to see these ads outside Shrapnel site, because most gamers here like hardcore strategy games and have heard of Dominions. People outside this community might or might not follow a link like that, but they might wonder what Dominions 3 is. If they bothered to read about it and had ever played any kind of fantasy kingdom game, chances are they'd be interested, because the game is just so awesome.

I also expect that Shrapnel knows what kind of people buy and play Dominions. I think it's mostly people over 25 and under 40, with people under 16 and over 50 totalling under 10% altogether.