Ashes Cricket General Discussion

[Llewelynf]

Well I'm gonna be in a tricky situation. My sister is going into hospital to give birth in mid November. Do I escape and goto JB Hifi and use some gift cards or goto the hospital and wait.
AGHHHHH, tough choices.

They will never remember anyway. Photoshop your face into the photos

 

[blockerdave]

Well I'm gonna be in a tricky situation. My sister is going into hospital to give birth in mid November. Do I escape and goto JB Hifi and use some gift cards or goto the hospital and wait.
AGHHHHH, tough choices.

Not to imply your family is unnaturally close and there's a danger of this kid having 6 fingers, but I have 4 sisters and yet I don't recognise your description as any sort of dilemma...

 

[Deleted member 46200]

Not to imply your family is unnaturally close and there's a danger of this kid having 6 fingers, but I have 4 sisters and yet I don't recognise your description as any sort of dilemma...

He lives in Swindon...!

 

[Vamsi2k99]

Are bigant studios developing and publishing ashes cricket ?
Have'nt seen trublu logo anywhere.
So that means they parted ways with tru blu?

 

[Targaryen]

Are bigant studios developing and publishing ashes cricket ?
Have'nt seen trublu logo anywhere.
So that means they parted ways with tru blu?

Yes.

 

[Vamsi2k99]

Yes.

Thats great!
No wonder publicising of the game has been so good so far.

 

[gkvarma18]

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Yes.

They can provide fuller support to the game after release definitely.

 

[blockerdave]

Thats great!
No wonder publicising of the game has been so good so far.

Devils advocate argument - the exposure has been excellent. The views on that Maxwell video in particular. But how much of that is down to BA skills or is it rather the inevitable publicity of a licensed product being pushed by CA/ECB and the cricketers themselves?

The content has been poor. 5 weeks out we know nothing about the game beyond it has 2 licensed teams and mo-cap. We knew more about the features of either DBC at this point. It concerns me that we as a market get so excited about so little.

2 videos and some face scans does not a campaign make.

Where's the beef?

 

[BigAntStudios]

Devils advocate argument - the exposure has been excellent. The views on that Maxwell video in particular. But how much of that is down to BA skills or is it rather the inevitable publicity of a licensed product being pushed by CA/ECB and the cricketers themselves?

The content has been poor. 5 weeks out we know nothing about the game beyond it has 2 licensed teams and mo-cap. We knew more about the features of either DBC at this point. It concerns me that we as a market get so excited about so little.

2 videos and some face scans does not a campaign make.

Where's the beef?

We're paying for the exposure and controlling it, the campaign is exactly where we want it to be - we've been rolling to a plan and there are no off-the-cuff releases.

 

[blockerdave]

We're paying for the exposure and controlling it, the campaign is exactly where we want it to be - we've been rolling to a plan and there are no off-the-cuff releases.

which is great, and i'm not questioning that. as i say the exposure has been excellent.

[HASHTAG]#miserablegitklaxon[/HASHTAG] - i am actually criticising us as a market, rather than BA or the campaign. I personally haven't seen anything in the campaign that has got me excited*... if I had a better PC and that was my preferred platform, nothing we've seen released would make me plan to buy Ashes over DBC17 plus @francobaldo1. your campaign is obviously fine for the market, because it's clear there's a lot of enthusiasm... but personally i feel the market should be more demanding.

*The Maxwell video was very entertaining, but it didn't get me thinking "oh i have to get that game"...

Mind you, no campaign would actually get me excited because my biggest gripe with both DBC's has been the AI and I accept there is no real marketing campaign you can build around that...

 

[BigAntStudios]

We're not trying to sell the game to you @blockerdave - indeed we're probably not trying to sell it to anyone that's a member of this site.

 

[Gamer Pradosh]

Even a 5sec videos of player's signature shot animation would get people excited , maybe like Warner cover drive or backfoot punch animation, Root's Backfoot cover drive or drive shot animation etc...Like the concepts they have in Instagram.. Short videos goes long way..Such stuff should get the player fans really excited.. Just my opinion...

 

[blockerdave]

We're not trying to sell the game to you @blockerdave - indeed we're probably not trying to sell it to anyone that's a member of this site.

fair comment!

 

[asprin]

We're not trying to sell the game to you @blockerdave - indeed we're probably not trying to sell it to anyone that's a member of this site.

It took me a good 3 seconds to realize what you meant by that

 

[Dutch]

fair comment!

Indeed.....how many people are really active members here and how many of us will just go out and buy every cricket game going......I wonder what the percentage of sold copies is compared with numbers of people who are active on the forums or even know Planet C exists......I bet it is tiny.........I think we all tend to vastly over-exaggerate the influence and power and importance of this place in the great scheme of things......it has none (The fact that BA are so committed to involving the community here in shaping the content of their games is because they want to and not because they have to to guarantee sales).