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Chicken Caesar? The Hotness?
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Me? I was impressed by how dumb the concept sounded and read no more.
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" Especially since I get games that I really, really don't want to review, yet they get sent to me."
No excuses Pete, quit stalling on that Candyland review.
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ubarose wrote: Personally, I'm in it for the sex. That and a ride to the waffle house at 4am.
"We've upped our game. Up yours!" now makes PERFECT sense. LOL
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SuperflyTNT wrote:
ubarose wrote: Personally, I'm in it for the sex. That and a ride to the waffle house at 4am.
"We've upped our game. Up yours!" now makes PERFECT sense. LOL
"How do you sleep at night?"
"On a big pile of money, with many beautiful ladies."
That's the life of the game critic in one Simpsons line.
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San Il Defanso wrote:
SuperflyTNT wrote:
ubarose wrote: Personally, I'm in it for the sex. That and a ride to the waffle house at 4am.
"We've upped our game. Up yours!" now makes PERFECT sense. LOL
"How do you sleep at night?"
"On a big pile of money, with many beautiful ladies."
That's the life of the game critic in one Simpsons line.
Ahh, so this is what the F:AT cast help line number is for.
I think a fairly clear distinction can be made in board games journalism between game previewers and game critics, the latter are far rarer than the former. I don't have a problem with previewers, their vids can be useful for finding out basic facts about a game and getting some feel for it. I guess a limited amount of blame for the proliferation of crap could be dumped at their doors, but people would still buy it. Its probably worse in the video game industry, just look at IGN, and that's supposed to be paid professional journalism.
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Ok so let me throw in my 2 cents. Right now there are a whole group of small publishers who have 'cracked the system'. It is realy pretty interesting to watch. They know how to get their game images into the hotness, they are all over social media, they are using socialogy and marketing techiniques to determine when when to push their games and when to put it into the hotness. They support each others games using page views and hits to generate buzz.
It is nothing new though, Colby Dauch has been doing it since his first foray in to publishing and it has lead him to great success. The difference here though is that there is a whole 'alliance' of small publishers so it is easier to generate the volume needed to catapult stuff into the hotness. I am rather taken with the whole idea because they are taking advantage of BGG. However, Another aspect of that is promoting through official BGG channels though adds and contests (which you are right- they're pretty expensive $1200.)
The other side of this is kickstarter which has enabled them to publish at a greatly reduced overhead and give them starting capitol to offset costs. This has also been studied and is married to the buzz campaign on BGG. The whole thing is really pretty clever. KS has been so successful that that there are even consultants who will help you learn the ropes of this whole process (the game whisperer's podcast Funding the Dream.) Game Salute in now offering a 'total package' that will do it all for you should you want to just concentrate on the game design and have some oen else take care of details.
As for Chicken Ceasar, I'd like to try it. I talked with Brian Fischer, one of the designers and I liked the power struggle aspect of the game- though Chickens? I would have gone for gangsters...oh wait.
Regaurding Vasel's videos I think as long as he makes it clear that it is a paid review then do whatever the hell he wants. That is capitolism right? Personally I get paid for *not* endorsing a game...and for not attending game functions. And for not associating with certain people. All of you who are behind in your payments can expect a visit soon and all the unpleasantness that comes from enduring my company. Of course you can all make it go away for a few $$$.
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Stephen Avery wrote: Personally I get paid for *not* endorsing a game...and for not attending game functions. And for not associating with certain people.
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*****And you cannot afford the amount of money it takes to not have Steve come to your house and not endorse a game and not hang with your friends!
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