You people are small minded and unable to see the big picture here.
This truly is one of the most effective and cheapest marketing ideas Sony has EVER had. The cake+controller was probably like 60$ max together (they are paying for the manufacturing cost of the controller only).
By sending this to him they essentially guaranteed that his 6.73 million twitter subscribers would see it. Plus over 10,000 people retweeted it. Then you have video game websites giving a free full page advertisement on it. When all is said and done easily 20 million people have seen this. For about 60$ or less Sony has gotten tens of millions of people to see their product.
Whoever came up with this idea at Sony is a marketing genius. This is the kind of stuff that gets people talking about your product.
@srkitosa: I have not bought the game because I have no interest in it, but what on earth gave you the impression it would be anything like Skyrim? It's been known for quite some time it was multiplayer only starwars version of battlefield. No where did anyone ever say it was going to have rpg elements, have single player, or anything like that.
Like how on earth did you come to the conclusion that Battlefront and Skyrim would have any similarities.
@JRLennis: Have you ever written fiction? Or... anything in general?
You have this bizarre fantasy in your mind that writers have the full script with all the concepts and characters solidified in their head. They simply gotta spend a day typing it out. That's so ridiculously wrong. Writing fiction is a constantly changing process that involves you getting new ideas as you go along and changing old ideas to fit the new ones. Titles are typically placeholders until the full script is done. I don't know of a single author who has went on record and stated that they had a full series planned in their mind and never changed a single thing along the way. It just doesn't happen.
The only way your post would make any sense is if you assumed writers have literally every detail planned out in their mind before writing. Gasp, he elaborated on the concept of what it means to be a Jedi while working through the drafts of the scripts! What a hack! /sarcasm
George Lucas is surrounded with legitimate controversy and there are plenty of legitimate issues one could bring up in regards to his storytelling/writing. But your post is completely removed from reality.
@bobafetthatesu: I wish I could see a receipt of your purchases. I have a friend who refuses to buy video games cause they are too expensive, but he's happy to go to the bar and drop like 200$ in a night buying shots for the whole bar.
Games like Skyrim and Fallout where you get hundreds of hours of replay have such a small entertainment cost it's ridiculous. Even a 10 hour long game is only 6$ per hour, which is cheaper than most entertainment venues.
@whirlwind12: You are very adamant about your position. Honestly it seems like you are working for some company, trying to smear reddit and gamespot. I have no proof beyond a gut feeling, but since it's my opinion I know it's fact. That means you are wrong.
@brxricano: Wtf are you smoking? Any negative connotation is projected from yourself. Grey market means completely legal products sold outside normal distribution channels. It's a term thats been in use since at least 1950.
Take your illuminati conspiracy crap out of here. I think the reddit mods are idiots but your post is so ignorant it's insane.
@Thanatos2k: What about used car dealerships? This is similar concept.
Person A buys car from official dealer and the car producer gets money. Person A eventually sells car to used car dealer. Car producer already got their money awhile back and has no right to be mad at the used car dealer.
Is Gamestop gray market? Developers have no control over whether they sell used games or not.
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