Yes, those dollars are generally considered marketing. Are you sure you belong on slashdot? You are one of about 10 people in this story who actually seems to realize that things other than advertising make up marketing costs.
Hey, I can argue without anything other than anecdotes as well. The reason we are inundated with ads is that society is becoming immune to them. You got it exactly backwards. Because of societal immunity, advertising must creep in everywhere in order to have more possible 'infections'.
I can see that you, like most on slashdot, have never actually taken a marketing course, so I'll spare you the b-school info on the actual purpose of ads.
Oh, you need an anecdote? Indie bands suck, that's why the majors don't sign them and people don't listen to them.
Don't worry, nobody will click on your Daikatana link, as you messed it up. Hope you aren't in QA.
As to your thinking that quality games don't need as much marketing if they score well? Are you really naive enough to believe in the wall separating the editorial side of the publishing business from the money/advertising side? Perhaps online (maybe) but certainly not in print media.
People here make a lot of noise about coding skill, and how it can come from anywhere - couldn't that be true for any skill?
No, because only coding is truly 'skillful' to the slashdotter. Anything else is only a step above scratching a rotten tree to dig out ants. Anything else is a trivial thing that any monkey can learn. Clearly the people who sign the coders' checks are only lucky ass kissing morons with no 'skill'.
They've been doing this in the automotive market for decades. The 'best' subcompact is a little bigger outside, a little bigger inside, with a little bigger engine.
Save your mod points: I admit that this is -1 Offtopic. Anyway.
It's been a few years since I last read Slashdot regularly, and the troll count has increased something like 5-fold. Was this a sudden increase, or something gradual? Anyone have an explanation for this?
We've suckered TPTB at work into believing that this sight is a reasonable IT research site, but haven't been able to provide a good business case for 4chan yet.
No. We hate scrubbing a machine. The paperwork is a hassle, and it's usually done for no reason other than CYA. The problem is, several levels above us are people who just can't quite understand why they can't plug in the USB picture frame they got for Father's Day. Or their iPod/iPhone. And those of us in the dungeon get tired of explaining things. So we give up and waste time reading slashdot until it's time to cleanup someone else's mess.
Not entirely true. Certain items in the National Archives are not available for photography. ISTR that there is a flag (the one flying over Fort McHenry??) that is only viewable in a special room with no flash photos allowed.
That said, those are rare exceptions, not the rule.
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Yes, those dollars are generally considered marketing. Are you sure you belong on slashdot? You are one of about 10 people in this story who actually seems to realize that things other than advertising make up marketing costs.
Hey, I can argue without anything other than anecdotes as well. The reason we are inundated with ads is that society is becoming immune to them. You got it exactly backwards. Because of societal immunity, advertising must creep in everywhere in order to have more possible 'infections'.
I can see that you, like most on slashdot, have never actually taken a marketing course, so I'll spare you the b-school info on the actual purpose of ads.
Oh, you need an anecdote? Indie bands suck, that's why the majors don't sign them and people don't listen to them.
Don't worry, nobody will click on your Daikatana link, as you messed it up. Hope you aren't in QA.
As to your thinking that quality games don't need as much marketing if they score well? Are you really naive enough to believe in the wall separating the editorial side of the publishing business from the money/advertising side? Perhaps online (maybe) but certainly not in print media.
Were you dropped on your head as a child? The GP clearly mentioned walking into a retail store.
Cost to not be a fucking moron and avoid the crash: priceless.
You are correct sir!
People here make a lot of noise about coding skill, and how it can come from anywhere - couldn't that be true for any skill?
No, because only coding is truly 'skillful' to the slashdotter. Anything else is only a step above scratching a rotten tree to dig out ants. Anything else is a trivial thing that any monkey can learn. Clearly the people who sign the coders' checks are only lucky ass kissing morons with no 'skill'.
Congratulations! It's not even TTuesday.
That's a feature, not a bug.
They've been doing this in the automotive market for decades. The 'best' subcompact is a little bigger outside, a little bigger inside, with a little bigger engine.
Yeah, cause it worked so well the last time a few Chinese peasants tried to revolt by gumming up the army's tanks' treads with their corpses.
Save your mod points: I admit that this is -1 Offtopic. Anyway.
It's been a few years since I last read Slashdot regularly, and the troll count has increased something like 5-fold. Was this a sudden increase, or something gradual? Anyone have an explanation for this?
We've suckered TPTB at work into believing that this sight is a reasonable IT research site, but haven't been able to provide a good business case for 4chan yet.
In hopes that one of those cigarettes will kill you.
Does Ziggy Stardust have a cameo?
Because judges belong to country clubs and don't want the undesirables to be there.
Annually IS a regular interval.
Tom Cruise, is that you?
Beats the heck out of me. I've lived in the area 35 years and haven't yet exhausted the free museums and other forms of entertainment and education.
I have multimedia files older than the current MacOS variant.
You'll be pleased to learn that pubic afros are pretty much passe these days.
Every so often, I'll find something I wrote 25 years ago, and be just a little startled at how perceptive I was.
The can be interpreted as you hope, or it can be interpreted that you are still an obtuse, selfish dipshit after 25 years.
It doesn't seem that that would be a huge concern, given that he's probably posting from his mom's basement.
I put the murloc aggro sound on my phone and set it to a ringtone. Everyone now commends me for answering so quickly.
No. We hate scrubbing a machine. The paperwork is a hassle, and it's usually done for no reason other than CYA. The problem is, several levels above us are people who just can't quite understand why they can't plug in the USB picture frame they got for Father's Day. Or their iPod/iPhone. And those of us in the dungeon get tired of explaining things. So we give up and waste time reading slashdot until it's time to cleanup someone else's mess.
Again.
Not entirely true. Certain items in the National Archives are not available for photography. ISTR that there is a flag (the one flying over Fort McHenry??) that is only viewable in a special room with no flash photos allowed.
That said, those are rare exceptions, not the rule.
Boy, there's a uid that's a blast from the past.