You could cry couldnt you, what a colossal waste of money. Just make a good game, spend the cash there, word will get around.
How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows
Submitted 3 weeks ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
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Aliktren@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
duchess@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Really good games flopped before because they weren’t marketed well. Marketing is budgeted for productions of any size, and influencer marketing in general is very effective for something like videogames. Larger amounts were spent on TV ads, or printing campaigns.
innocentpixels@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree! I mean why would coke still produce ads if they weren’t working. Everyone knows about coke, but they still have ads everywhere
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The industry is full of dead studios that made good games. Marketing does work and is necessary, but I’m not sure much you can say this marketing campaign was successful given the heavy lifting Assassin’s Creed as a brand was already doing.
jonathan@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Given the vitriol against Ubisoft (I’m not commenting on how justified it is), obviously they need to do something to counter it. The anti-woke crowd are an incredibly noisy minority.
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Good games can still failed, great games can have the luxury of let people do the marketing for them.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I just wish companies would stop releasing games to streamers only. It does nothing but piss me off when I see someone playing a game, find it interesting then find out it doesn’t even exist to buy yet … no demos, no test play versions no nothing…just coming soon.
Makes me not want to play it anymore
absquatulate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know it’s cool to hate on this game, especially with it being so mediocre, but to me the number is fairly meaningless by itself. I wonder how that 2 million budget compares to other large releases ( say Starfield, since it’s pretty clear that bethesda also pumped a lot of money into the “gaming press”)
Kelly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I believe its production budget was pegged at between $250m and $350m.
So this particular item in the marketing budget is less than 1% of the development costs.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I haven’t found a source for this number when I looked for it. The best I got was a finance blog saying “experts say” without saying that they were progenitors of the reporting or not. Valhalla had a budget about half of this, so it would surprise me if Shadows was that much more expensive.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So marketing? What’s the problem here? Should they have spent it advertising on radio?
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Money well spent: Grummz got told the fuck off on twitter lol
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
sirico@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Schedule 1 paid…
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So they spent advertising money on freelance shills. Ok.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sponsoring streams isn’t even close to the same thing as hiring shills
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do streamers call themselves influencers?
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Isn’t it though? They’re being paid to promote a game right? That seems like a shill to me. I’m not sure I understand the difference to you.
simple@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There are some confused people in the comments, it’s industry standard to sponsor streams/have brand collaboration/twitch drops. Every company does it, and 2 million dollars is not much at all. their advertising budget is at least 20x that much, probably more.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is true, but one thing I noticed with AC Shadows is that there were a LOT of no-name streamers posting reels with fake hype over the game. It was a little egregious and came off as more than a little desperate.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Without seeing what you’ve seen, that honestly sounds more like a symptom of the platform, current internet trends, and algorithm gaming than it sounds like a cheesy viral marketing campaign
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My buddy is a little streamer (gets maybe a few dozen viewers) and he got early access to it as well. Although he doesn’t add any fake hype, he’s just a very good hype man.
Prox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For real. EA spent north of $10M on streamer sponsorships for the Apex Legends launch and that was like 7 years ago.