Poll: So have you sent EA the email yet?

[jakefongloo]

Agree with the UK post above.

This kind of advert simply wouldn't be shown in the UK. While I agree with alot of points raised by Extra Credits, they're a little wide of the mark with what they are targeting as the cause. The demographic that these adverts are aimed at seem to be High Schoolers (Even if these are what...R rated games?) and college frat "bro's". Gaming will always have this demographic close to it's core. EA know this, and while what they are doing is degrading and downright embarrassing, it's also understandable.

Call of Duty broke and continues breaking sales records without needing to shit in a shoebox and call it advertising for the next Mass Effect because one of the aliens heads looks sleightly like a poop i took once. It's not understandable when it doesn't actually do what it's supposed to do.
Fuck, if they're just gonna waste money like that they could at least send some my way.

 

[Blind Sight]

Nope, EA's marketing campaigns serve to amuse me constantly. I like Extra Credits, but I disagree with them because I believe that a company has a right to market their product in a way they see fit. Of course you're entitled to write emails to EA complaining about it as well so they can understand their consumer base better, but I actually enjoy most (not all, mind you) of EA's 'outside the box' advertising ideas.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

No. I don't really think games are art, so I think EA can advertise however they want. Plus none of these adverts are shown in the UK, so I have even less of a beef with 'em.

Don't know why I have this viewpoint yet come back to Extra Credits every week...

you should have even more beef, because if EA keep pulling stupid crap like this and mature games get banned in america, we wont be getting them either because publishers simply wont sell them.. and the worst part is we wont even know why because it supposedly didnt matter to us

 

[MercurySteam]

BioShock isn't an RPG. Whoever told you that is incorrect. Its considered a (loose) spiritual successor to the System Shock games, which were RPGs (amongst other things).

I'm inclined to agree with you that Bioshock doesn't really feel or play much like an RPG, but I guess it's fair to say that Bioshock is as much an RPG as it is a survival horror shooter. I think that Bioshock doesn't know what it wants to be.

 

[Ninjafire72]

If the industry really is a place where teenage shut-ins look ad ads like the DS2 one and say "lol! I'm sooo playing!", then I'm putting down my controller for ever. I'm all for freedom in marketing and rights to do whatever, but surely EA can do something that doesn't involve making gamers look like immature morons.

 

[Spark Ignition]

No. I don't really think games are art, so I think EA can advertise however they want. Plus none of these adverts are shown in the UK, so I have even less of a beef with 'em.

Don't know why I have this viewpoint yet come back to Extra Credits every week...

It's not an issue of if games are art. Ok, that's definitely involved, but as Shamus points out in his article there are still ongoing legal battles to have all violent videogames banned, on the basis that they're marketed to children. And in the face of EA's Dead Space 2 'your mom will hate this' campaign, can we really argue that they're not?

I'll admit, I didn't look at it that way, since all I got was Extra Credits' ideas of arty-farty reasons. But in my defense, I posted before Shamus' article went up.
Think I'll have to change my reason of not sending the e-mail to the more honest "I'm too lazy to be bothered".

Haha fair enough. Not quite sure which of EA's many corporate email addresses one would use, anyway. For the record I love Extra Credits, love 'games as art' (I'm an art student working on game ideas hehe), but just wanted to point out that it's not just people like me who should be mad at EA for their marketing.

 

[Mr_FJ]

What we should really do is send emails to other game developers and game magazines.

 

[WanderingFool]

Im an unfortunate Pessimist. I could, but I dont see it having any effect, as they probably set the spam filters to prevent these from getting through.

 

[Something Amyss]

in case you havent already watch http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/2794-An-Open-Letter-to-EA-Marketing

you wont be dissapointed

and second please do the poll so just for my own curiosity if nothing else i can see the numbers

I expressed my feelings related to both EA and the video in the EC thread on the video itself. However, for the sake of your poll, I voted "What's the point?"

You see, any other issue with the video aside, and I have several, they're preaching from the position that EA gives a damn about artistry and innovation, that shock was done for relavence and not dating corporate models, and that they might actually want to go back to not being a monolithic corporation.

what's the point of aping James and Daniel to EA? I don't like the whole "Sin to Win" and similar controversial materials deal, but even that's handled wrong by this video. Not only don't I want to send the message that I believe this interpretation of events, but I legitimately believe it will fall on deaf ears.

 

[Mr_FJ]

I posted this on twitter:

@PC_Gamer @Gameinformer @IGN @N4G @VALVeSoftware @BlizzardCS @geoffkeighley @EA @Machinima_com @Wolfire @Notch
http://tinyurl.com/GrowUpEA

I couldn't think of any more gaming news sites, so I just added Goff Keighley :/

 

[CaptQuakers]

No point I have tried begging EA but they just don't care as long as the game sells they have done their job in their eyes. And lets be honest they are making money hand over fist why would they even listen ?

It won't happen but until people stop buying games they won't change why would they ? Because we asked them nicely ?

 

[Dejawesp]

Whatever makes EA make their game intros skippable is worth its weight in gold to me.