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Chicken Caesar? The Hotness?
What in the hell is going on? I just watched Tom Vasel's paid preview of Chicken Caesar and for those of you doing marketing analysis I turned the video off at 4:46, what a chore to sit through this and I hope Tom was paid a hefty sum to explain this game.
Can we shut down Kickstarter right now? This is worse than Karaoke night. Just because you like games doen't mean you can design one.
Who came up with the chicken idea? Here's a tip. If you want to use a kooky idea like a Chicken Roman Senate, the game has to be a little kooky too, not a serious spreadsheet game with chicken pictures on the cards which are also not funny.
Putting bad games in the spotlight WILL hurt this hobby and drive people away in droves. This is a travesty! BGG and Tom Vasel need to accept some responsibility and show some discretion about which games to showcase.
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ROFL. Call anonymous and have a denial-of-service attack targeted at BGG and Kickstarter for 3 days. There will be mass suicides, gnashing of teeth, snarls of anguish...all that jazz.
Then, when it's all over, replace the homepages with an ad for F:AT.
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Steve Weeks wrote: What in the hell is going on? I just watched Tom Vasel's paid preview of Chicken Caesar and for those of you doing marketing analysis I turned the video off at 4:46, what a chore to sit through this and I hope Tom was paid a hefty sum to explain this game.
Wait...reviewers are now doing 'previews' of kickstarter projects?
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Currently there is a giveaway contest on BGG for Chicken Caesar. Just about every game I've seen featured in a giveaway contest jumps up on the hotness. It'll be gone soon, don't worry.
How much are they paying people to register for this contest?
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Wait...reviewers are now doing 'previews' of kickstarter projects?
A disturbing trend and a waste of time because these videos say that the components you see are not final. So really you are seeing a preview of something that will most likely change.
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I got rid of the hotness, just a round of antibiotics and make sure to take the whole thing and the burning will go away.
More appropriate than you may think! The Hotness list is hemmoroids on the ass of gaming.
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Steve Weeks wrote: How much are they paying people to register for this contest?
Contests are pretty lucrative for BGG -- $1200 charge for a one-week contest. Their slick sheet indicates that one contest drove 11,000 hits to the associated game's page. That is likely enough to put you on The Hotness.
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Contests are pretty lucrative for BGG
Lucrative for BGG=Good for gaming?
I say not always
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Steve Weeks wrote:
Wait...reviewers are now doing 'previews' of kickstarter projects?
A disturbing trend and a waste of time because these videos say that the components you see are not final. So really you are seeing a preview of something that will most likely change.
First, it makes a lot of sense. People spending money on vaporware need to know how a game plays, and thus it makes sense that people see, up front, a prototype game in action, knowing that the quality will be better than the proto.
Second, weren't you noting that you'd be first in line to help promote Capo after seeing nothing other than (coincidentally) a....PREVIEW VIDEO WITH TOM VASEL?
fortressat.com/index.php/forum/10-ameritrash/118083-capo
So, what's the difference?
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If you can make money being a "paid spokesmodel" and make money having a hobby-based website where you review products, fucking go for it. I mean, what's the difference between F:AT having banner ads on the site where games are reviewed and Tom having banner ads where games get reviewed? I don't see a problem with that, and I don't see a problem being a "paid spokesmodel" as long as you're honest in your assessment and like the products you endorse.
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