[Mantequilla]

Seems legit, lmfao

[andyrob89]

QUOTE (BlackandWhite23 @ Saturday, Sep 8 2012, 22:35)

QUOTE (andyrob89 @ Sunday, Sep 9 2012, 00:26) I wrote that article guys  Well here are you reactions good article

Thanks dude

I applied to write for them after reading a few articles on the site. I've also just finished my dissertation which I have a thread about on here. It's pretty much on the same thing.

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=514438&hl=

Oh and it is just a coincidence that I live in Edinburgh and only have the one article on there

[el_roy1985]

Well written article.

I really hope they do start marketing V big, and soon. I'm so anxious to play it that I might cry. 'Cause when I do play it, it's gonna be so great that I know I'm going to cry.

[Microwave]

They can treat us like dicks because they can. If a less popular franchise tried this "strategy" they would sell nothing.

[omggtav]

QUOTE (andyrob89 @ Saturday, Sep 8 2012, 22:40)

QUOTE (BlackandWhite23 @ Saturday, Sep 8 2012, 22:35) QUOTE (andyrob89 @ Sunday, Sep 9 2012, 00:26) I wrote that article guys  Well here are you reactions good article Thanks dude I applied to write for them after reading a few articles on the site. I've also just finished my dissertation which I have a thread about on here. It's pretty much on the same thing. http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=514438&hl= Oh and it is just a coincidence that I live in Edinburgh and only have the one article on there

Awesome article bra

[saintsrow]

QUOTE (Staten @ Saturday, Sep 8 2012, 21:15)

I find it strange that you bought and played a game that you didn't want - I think R* were clear MP3 wasn't an open-world title, and there'd be no driving, like there'd been no driving in the previous Max Payne games - but fair enough, if the game doesn't give you what you want from it, you're under no pressure to like it.  However, while I agree the open-endedness of games like GTA and RDR are a great thing, there are some people - e.g me - who it it's equally great to throw Max into a room full o' goons and, in one single fluid motion, drop each and every one without being shot once.  Also, MP3 - and other TPSs like it - aren't "pop-up shooting arcade" games.  If you want examples of games that are, look up Operation Wolf and Virtua Cop, if the history books go back that far.

I did not buy MP3 yet (though it probably sounds like I did). I already knew exactly what it was, from the pre-release publicity. I just watched a number of the HD walkthroughs on the web to see it, and to check if there was anything interesting or surprising in terms of gameplay. In fact, I will buy MP3 when it comes down to $20-30, plus the Season Pass DLC, just so I can free-roam the virtual environments (without getting my @ss shot to hell).

I totally agree that some players get great satisfsaction from tight shooters. It sounds like I am disparaging it, but I don't mean to. I used/wasted many hours of my young life on things like Quake and Unreal Tournament. When GTA III came out (and I bought it because of all the moral outrage in the popular press), I was transformed in terms of my realizatiion of what video games were all about - not just a single-purpose shooter or a racing game, but a fantastically rich and complete crime/chaos simulation environment with humor and pretty good story.

GTA-VC and GTA-SA raised the bar even further; then there was no going back Games like MP3 and LA Noire seem like a throwback to the single-purpose games of old. But their HD virtual world designs are beautiful.

OT: Now that the article author has shown up here on the forums (the marketing student bio in the article was kind of a clue) I would be glad to see more analysis of this type, but in relation to successful past marketing of Rockstar games and other big blockbuster games. For example, I think that GTA-SA and RDR were marketed much better, and the fan community had a lot better experience leading up to the release of these games.

I just felt like the article is trying to make sense of what Rockstar MKarketing is intending and doing now in real time (which of course we have discussed endlessly here on the forums), and it was just one more point of view making the assertion that this strategy and campaign has all been carefully and exactly planned by Rockstar Marketing. In my opinion, it has been a screw-up. But I'm not a marketing major.

Nontheless, of course I will gladly (fanatically) buy GTAV for both xbox 360 and PC, and all its DLCs (except zombies) and I will play and replay GTAV for the next 6 years until more GTA comes out, just like I am doing now with GTA IV and TBOGT.

@MosquitoSmasher

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Hey dude, where's that pool picture from?

Thanks for asking. It is a picture of the Stahl House on Flikr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/neilanddina/5515131094/

If you go to Google Images and search for "Stahl House" you will get hundreds of pictures of that house. As you know, a re-imagined version of this crib was sort of promised in GTA-SA (early pre-release screenshots, which even implied that it had an interior) but when you finally obtained it as a safehouse, the interior was generic . I hope that in GTAV, this house will be a prize we can obtain / buy near the end of the game, and we can stand in the living room and overlook Los Santos and think, "Yeah, man! Top of the World! It was all worth it..."

[bobgtafan]

Rockstar's marketing stragety is sh*tty if I ever saw one. The average guy with a job, wife and kids isn't on here discussing this bullsh*t. The average person wasn't impressed with the sh*t that was GTA IV

http://kotaku.com/5840484/gta-iv-overtakes...-lifetime-sales

Hell it didn't even sell as many as San Andraes. And now they're going back, assuming with only one already over done city and trying to get the average motherf*ckers of the world to care by not telling them anything? Wow yeah that sh*t isn't going to work. When it comes down to it there is a reason Call of Duty sells more than GTA. Good f*cking marketing.

[ivor1977]

"INCOMING!!!!"

[Shockenheim]

QUOTE (bobgtafan @ Saturday, Sep 8 2012, 23:53)

Rockstar's marketing stragety is sh*tty if I ever saw one. The average guy with a job, wife and kids isn't on here discussing this bullsh*t. The average person wasn't impressed with the sh*t that was GTA IV http://kotaku.com/5840484/gta-iv-overtakes...-lifetime-sales Hell it didn't even sell as many as San Andraes. And now they're going back, assuming with only one already over done city and trying to get the average motherf*ckers of the world to care by not telling them anything? Wow yeah that sh*t isn't going to work. When it comes down to it there is a reason Call of Duty sells more than GTA. Good f*cking marketing.

Time for your pills!

[AlanRikkin]

Funland.

GTA IV


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[Romans Cousin Niko]

This article is just regurgitating what we already know.

[Jakee.]

Its just the children on the forum that can't keep cool about the game that don't understand what this article outlines, the ones that think every single number is a hidden message.

Good read

[gevans81]

Interesting and well written article, cheers for heads up OP.