Flight said:
It"s common knowledge RA lives within a half hours drive of the 38S studios and goes in a number of times a week to guide and oversee their writing and lore.
RA Salvatore is to this game as Clancy is to any Ubi-Soft game. A name and an endorsement.
I still think Salvatore did a great job with the Dark Elf Trilogy
Streams of Silver was actually the first D&D type book I ever read. I hopped right in and then read the Halfling"s gem and the Dark elf trilogy. 6 books that were perfect (I read the crystal shard later) After that, done. Bastardized. Sold out for cash.
The fact that those people are now working for the company doesn"t say much. It means you have people who sell out and mass produce garbage for their pocket book and now rely on a name. Similar to what Curt Schilling is now doing here.
This genre does not need another one of those. But yet they continue to come. They continue to fail (Which is a good thing, or a bad thing when publishers see it and stop funding of what could be great games) but yet they also continue to make money and those people go bye bye after they cash out.
But this all goes back to one original point I was trying to make earlier. Hiring names and flashing them around points to one marketing ploy to sell a product. It does not point to a good game. When I say make the fucker (TM) I mean just that. Enough of the marketing fluff, enough of the blitz campaign, enough of flashing fantasy names everywhere (Especially when those people are washed up sell outs).
And for Christ sake, enough of posts like "I am sick of all these games and am bored. What are you all playing? Oh by the way my new game named after one of Doc Browns dogs will not be like those games you are bored of. Ok thanks bye!"
It"s painful even watching it.
Mary, who guides his postings, also doesn"t have the first clue about grassroots marketing. She uses marketing tactics that were taught in a state college back in 1976. She never took her shoes off the hook and chased the new cheese in a different corner. It shows here.
At the risk of stating the obvious, but from reading the marketing campaign here of Curt maybe it isn"t so obvious: The trick to a grassroots campaign is to get people fired up about your product without them knowing you are the one selling it. I hate grassroots campaigns because I am a firm believer in letting the bullshit walk and having your product talk. But good christ, Curt, hire someone who head up your marketing department that knows their shit and doesn"t make it so God Damn obvious.
