Make a good game and it will sell itself. Don't spend most of the funds on marketing.
-Ex beta tester.
This is the same erroneous assumption that causes many managers to resist marketing efforts so strongly even when marketing has been shown to be essential for achieving maximum potential sales. It's true that the marketing effort starts with a good product with preferably unique, value-laden features or benefits, and a poor product ultimately has a much higher likelihood of failure. However to just discount marketing completely is naive. In point of fact designing an excellent product is actually a part of the overall marketing strategy. The problem Epic and other console game developers face IS essentially a marketing problem. It all comes down to the quote given by Mr. Capps: "How do you sell someone a $60 game that's really worth it? They're used to 99 cents" The key is to identify the value that the professionally developed, full featured console game provides above and beyond that of the 99 cent smartphone app games and effectively communicate this value to customers in order to induce them to buy the game. Without more extensive marketing tactics, there is no way to tell consumers why your game has more value than, ie why they should pay a higher price than, a smart-phone based game
Although I'm sure that in some respects you are right, seeing as the US is a larger first world country that is not rife with unmanageable corruption among other problems inherent with government in less developed countries, I think that the main reason that we see the emphasis on foreign entities is because the leaked cables were US State Department communiques regarding these various other entities. Had the leak been from some other foreign State Department we may have seen several damning reports regarding the US instead.
hahah yeeeeah! we could have suspensors and personal shields and even interstellar travel, providing, that is, we are able to get some melange..that part might be a bit tough..
I heard of a research professor who was paralyzed and used eye movements to control his computer and keep doing research. damn that would be a bitch haha
ps: flashbacks can be triggered by any strong emotional event not just drugs. I think it would be cool to have a flashback anyways haha. sitting bored at work and suddenly your back at home watching a badass movie or something. sounds like a good way to pass the time to me.
and you dont have to breathe any amount of pot smoke. if youre around it and you dont want to breathe any in then just leave. no one is forcing anyone to stick around and breathe anything they dont want to.
when i was taking a class on java programming our teach had us do the following and it was really helpful:
the two people would come up with a design draft and then we would take turns where one person would type code while the other partner watched and scanned the code to catch any typos or bad code. we would switch off maybe every 20 minutes or so. this way no one person gets tired and burned out from typing or error checking.
this process worked very well for me. it was very helpful to have someone there to catch any mistakes or make any on the fly suggestions they have that might make the programming better or more sleek.
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the online learning comprises embedded youtube khanacademy.org videos.. i wonder if they are breaking any copyright laws by using these
Make a good game and it will sell itself. Don't spend most of the funds on marketing. -Ex beta tester.
This is the same erroneous assumption that causes many managers to resist marketing efforts so strongly even when marketing has been shown to be essential for achieving maximum potential sales. It's true that the marketing effort starts with a good product with preferably unique, value-laden features or benefits, and a poor product ultimately has a much higher likelihood of failure. However to just discount marketing completely is naive. In point of fact designing an excellent product is actually a part of the overall marketing strategy. The problem Epic and other console game developers face IS essentially a marketing problem. It all comes down to the quote given by Mr. Capps: "How do you sell someone a $60 game that's really worth it? They're used to 99 cents" The key is to identify the value that the professionally developed, full featured console game provides above and beyond that of the 99 cent smartphone app games and effectively communicate this value to customers in order to induce them to buy the game. Without more extensive marketing tactics, there is no way to tell consumers why your game has more value than, ie why they should pay a higher price than, a smart-phone based game
Although I'm sure that in some respects you are right, seeing as the US is a larger first world country that is not rife with unmanageable corruption among other problems inherent with government in less developed countries, I think that the main reason that we see the emphasis on foreign entities is because the leaked cables were US State Department communiques regarding these various other entities. Had the leak been from some other foreign State Department we may have seen several damning reports regarding the US instead.
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hahah yeeeeah! we could have suspensors and personal shields and even interstellar travel, providing, that is, we are able to get some melange..that part might be a bit tough..
I heard of a research professor who was paralyzed and used eye movements to control his computer and keep doing research. damn that would be a bitch haha
ps: flashbacks can be triggered by any strong emotional event not just drugs. I think it would be cool to have a flashback anyways haha. sitting bored at work and suddenly your back at home watching a badass movie or something. sounds like a good way to pass the time to me.
and you dont have to breathe any amount of pot smoke. if youre around it and you dont want to breathe any in then just leave. no one is forcing anyone to stick around and breathe anything they dont want to.
when i was taking a class on java programming our teach had us do the following and it was really helpful: the two people would come up with a design draft and then we would take turns where one person would type code while the other partner watched and scanned the code to catch any typos or bad code. we would switch off maybe every 20 minutes or so. this way no one person gets tired and burned out from typing or error checking. this process worked very well for me. it was very helpful to have someone there to catch any mistakes or make any on the fly suggestions they have that might make the programming better or more sleek.