News: T:V Box Art Finalized
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Rooster128
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first things first, logroller, you're probably right, but if I was developing a game, the least I would do (and probably one of the the only things) is let the informed fans have a say of what the boxart should be. Makes me think less, instead of paying someone to design something that does not appeal to the public.
Lets see the numbers here:
1 artist dude's version of the box with limited perception or second opinions.
vs.
A few dozen people's versions of the box, all to be praised by one another by the general public who don't like the first box.
Boom bada bang.
Also... last I heard, didn't VUG asborb Irrational into itself? So the two companies are one in the same?
The white background on the box might work if the box has a front panel that folds out to show more information, similiar to what NWN and UT2k4 does. If that was to be done, and the back of the game showed a lot of neat stuff and was informational, then I think the box art I could care less about.
My two cents right there.
I feel impelled to go to a local staples of Walmart and just stand in a corner of the PC game department, just observing what pedestrians look at when they pick up a game and examine it... and try to get an idea of what goes through their head when they see it.
Personally if the front cover does not intrigue me (like the Planetside cover) I will look at the back, and the sleeve if it has one. In fact, usually I'm more intrigued of what the back of the box says than the front.
So:
-Add one of those sleeve things on the front.
-Showoff the game on the back.
-Examine what the general public looks at when they pick up a game box.
-As a developer, use the fanbase as a tool. They sometimes can think up more popular ideas than artists you offer pay. (No offense to anyone in Irrational, I hope)
Lets see the numbers here:
1 artist dude's version of the box with limited perception or second opinions.
vs.
A few dozen people's versions of the box, all to be praised by one another by the general public who don't like the first box.
Boom bada bang.
Also... last I heard, didn't VUG asborb Irrational into itself? So the two companies are one in the same?
The white background on the box might work if the box has a front panel that folds out to show more information, similiar to what NWN and UT2k4 does. If that was to be done, and the back of the game showed a lot of neat stuff and was informational, then I think the box art I could care less about.
My two cents right there.
I feel impelled to go to a local staples of Walmart and just stand in a corner of the PC game department, just observing what pedestrians look at when they pick up a game and examine it... and try to get an idea of what goes through their head when they see it.
Personally if the front cover does not intrigue me (like the Planetside cover) I will look at the back, and the sleeve if it has one. In fact, usually I'm more intrigued of what the back of the box says than the front.
So:
-Add one of those sleeve things on the front.
-Showoff the game on the back.
-Examine what the general public looks at when they pick up a game box.
-As a developer, use the fanbase as a tool. They sometimes can think up more popular ideas than artists you offer pay. (No offense to anyone in Irrational, I hope)
Void|deadjawa
Veteran X
ahh...i was slightly confusedkanarde said:
I'm not a huge fan of it, but I also don't hold a master's degree in Marketing nor fully understand the science behind design. I'll leave it to those put in charge. You know, the ones that get paid to make these decisions.kanarde said:
If that's the box they want, so be it. I'm going to buy it no matter what the box looks like and I'm going to recommend the GAME to my friends because that's what they are going to playing.
Sure, we used to play with boxes when we were little kids, but they were much larger and made cool forts. I'm too fat to fit inside a Tribes: Vengeance box.
Colosus said:
I'm not to keen on simply trusting those in charge to make the right decisions on the philosophy that, "Hey, if they have jobs, they must know what they're talking about, right?"
Not to beat an already well tenderized horse, but I think Tribes 2 is proof that those in charge don't always make the best decisions.
The science of marketing is obviously:
1) spend 30 minutes making your ad
2) release it with the dictation that it will not change
3) when everyone points out it sucks, point to your college degree
4) convince several thousand people that even though they hate it, it's a brilliant marketing tool
5) get idiots to support you, since they don't have a will of their own
6) misspell
1) spend 30 minutes making your ad
2) release it with the dictation that it will not change
3) when everyone points out it sucks, point to your college degree
4) convince several thousand people that even though they hate it, it's a brilliant marketing tool
5) get idiots to support you, since they don't have a will of their own
6) misspell
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starwolf_nexus
Veteran XV
7) screw the profits using poor marketing and thus wasting all the time IGA spent listening to us over a shity looking box
(even tho it draws attention it kills that attention shortly with the actual "ART" if you could call it that)
(even tho it draws attention it kills that attention shortly with the actual "ART" if you could call it that)
That'll be one of Tribes' little "things" from now on: crappy boxes.
Future request for the next Tribes: ensure the box is ugly, since the other ones have been as well. This must not change. In fact, it's impossible to change. People go to college to learn how to make these things. What do you, the consumer, know about your likes and dislikes?
*scoff*
Consumers...
Future request for the next Tribes: ensure the box is ugly, since the other ones have been as well. This must not change. In fact, it's impossible to change. People go to college to learn how to make these things. What do you, the consumer, know about your likes and dislikes?
*scoff*
Consumers...
Colosus said:
Well, I don't have a degree in marketing either, but as a gamer I can honestly say that the game, from looking at the box, doesn't look fun. It doens't look like it will be fun to look at or or play. But thats just my impression.
I think people (including my self) are seeing the sucktastic box as a sign, or omen. I think tw is scared that this will turn into another t2, so any little think that is wrong scares us.
But anyway, I'm fucking excited about T:V (sucktastic box or not) and I will also be buying it (and recommending it to friends... hell, I'm already preaching about it to anyone who will listen and I haven't even played it yet...).
Colosus said:
For a game that most people have only remotely heard of and fewer play outside the community.. if they can't get past the box.. they arn't going to buy it. It is a _real_ issue for so many people in these forums because they know that it will determine the future of this francise and the size of the tribes comunity for the future.
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