This is what happens when you don't watch your marketing manager

[Chern Ann]

http://www.cheathappens.com/show_wallpaper.asp?id=30696

Someone, somewhere, got screwed :tongue:. The shareholders, at the very least. Waste of perfectly good models too, horrible picture composition, art direction and post production.

 

[PegaZus]

Obviously, my tastes must be a lot less sophisticated. Didn't see anything particularly wrong with the wall papers. Yeah, a little chinsey (chinchy, chintsy, chintzy, (AHA! That one worked!)) Chintzy! But no more so than any Gap or A&F ad, IMO.

I suppose it might work better if they were selling chain mail bikinis, but eh.

 

[Chern Ann]

Well, they're selling a fantasy MMO of some stripe apparently, but compared to the cost of acquiring the models against the mediocre background, poor costumes, ludicrous posing, captioning etc I would flip out if I was given a piece of work like this.

Compare, for instance: http://www.shareyourwallpaper.com/games/lineage-2-the-chaotic-throne/show/23826/. Still cheesecake, but evokes enough of the setting so that it doesn't look like a cosplay club, and probably cost much less through the reuse of assets generated for the game itself.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Sadly the site is down.
However I wonder if it could be a case of marketing not understanding:
A: the product
B: the target audience
C: what they were supposed to be doing.

Bit like the old picture adage of the swing and the six different versions thereof.

 

[PegaZus]

Sadly the site is down.

Site was down when I posted too. However, Google has a cache of it, and funny enough the links still work in the cache.

 

[Avelorn]

Real boobs sells better then drawn boobs. There's the marketing for you.

 

[airhead]

cannot get link to open - can someone do a screen capture?

 

[montka]

hawt.
jus' sayin.

 

[generulpoleaxe]

yeah man, totty hammer.

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[me_in_japan]

hawt.
jus' sayin.

I concur...

 

[marjedi]

With babes like that...WHO CARES about the game...smooookin hawt:in-love:

 

[airhead]

Doesn't make me want to play a war game.
I keep expecting to see a hello kitty on one of the swords....(or elsewhere)
just sayin.

 

[KelRiever]

I agree with the original poster. Those pictures are terrible.

 

[freakinacage]

Doesn't make me want to play a war game.
I keep expecting to see a hello kitty on one of the swords....(or elsewhere)
just sayin.

Glad it's not just me. TBH with that amount of cleavage and flesh on view, I'm not going to bother looking at the composition. They might as well be standing in front of a plain background

 

[Einion]

I'm not sure these are that terrible as marketing tools, I mean we don't know what the game is actually like do we? :cute:

Seriously though, they don't exactly scream "war game" do they? They do say "scantily-clad hawt [mostly] Asian chicks", so if this is any sort of serious warfare-based MMOG then this isn't really advertising it the right way.

Einion

 

[uglybug]

Damn I thought it was an ad for mail order brides. Guess I will keep looking.

 

[Sukigod]

So it's an MMO where the only character type you can play is a scantily clad asain lady warrior? And there's hundreds of them running around? Hmmm.

 

[joshomatic]

It's gotta be tongue in cheek, right? Proof that having good models just isn't enough to cover for bad art direction.

 

[generulpoleaxe]

It's gotta be tongue in cheek, right? Proof that having good models just isn't enough to cover for bad art direction.

Whose tongue and whose cheek

 

[mud duck]

I'm trying to figger out how many swords the photographer had for the shoot. A couple look Photoshopped,the screaming chick in the back row, the blade looks "moved" and the wrong shape, and she would had it covering her face. And the LEFT-handed Spartan looks to be holding a rod/spear what-ever and not a sword.


Gods, am I that jaded/numbed that I see the fact that the mage isn't wearing shoes and the warriors have pointed toed stilettos on a battlefield, and not the fact that they are "hot" half naked females? Do I have to turn in my MAN CARD?