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People actively watch the Super Bowl just for the ads and halftime show.
see thank youi will pay hundreds of dollars unlike all the fake fans here
6am tomorrow Nintendo just tweets out "don't worry yall lol"If Nintendo is still tweeting tomorrow like nothing happened then i think we will be in the clear come Monday
oh man, I would actually pay for a ticket to one of theseI’d pay a few dollars to see a Direct at, like, a theater. Mostly because then I’d be seeing it with a bunch of other nerds crazy enough to spend money to see it in a theater, and I think that would be fun and the hype would be contagious.
I know Sony has partnered with theaters to host fan events for some of their presentations, where people get to see the trailers on the big screen and also get like a poster to take home or whatnot. If Nintendo did the same I’d probably bite, as long as it wasn’t too much money.
This sums up my feelings well.Also there's some context I guess. I get excited about Directs and about discussing them and such and I always look at them as more of a community thing but then as soon as @Raccoon got me thinking about paying for them I went to the "just an advertisement" side real quick without even thinking about it.
Change it from a free-to-watch global community event to a ppv exclusive event and the context surrounding the whole thing changes, thus the perception.
Is...see thank you
glad to see that there is at least one TRUE direct fan in this thread
It's not cynical to say a Direct is advertising; it's just -- at best -- obvious and uninteresting.
At worst, it's a pejorative, "just advertising," as if the people who are excited for Directs are being misled into something, and wouldn't be excited if they realized the purpose was to advertise, or shouldn't be excited because that's giving Nintendo's evil marketing department what they want. Which is all extremely dumb for reasons I shouldn't have to explain. Advertising is a fascinating and nuanced subject from an academic perspective, but from the perspective of "should people get excited about announcements and reveals for video games they plan to buy with their disposable income and enjoy for hours," it's much more simple.
there's never a plan but I'm always ready to adaptIs...
Is that what you were setting up for??
Fuckin got me dude, nice
there's never a plan but I'm always ready to adapt
direct threads are improv practice
Ah gamer funkI would never go to a theater to watch a Nintendo Direct for fear that I would experience the smell similar to what Smash tournaments have been reported to smell like.
Cabbage mixed with cockroaches???I would never go to a theater to watch a Nintendo Direct for fear that I would experience the smell similar to what Smash tournaments have been reported to smell like.
did you... make this?
No, I would've worked harder to balance the purple and orange with the color cast (or lack thereof) on the raccoon boi because I'm obsessive over such things and probably would've also had the background be the red curtains from Mario 3 and thus wouldn't have finished and posted it for like a half hour or so.did you... make this?
There it is, standard marketing. Looks like we're still on the 13th hype train
I agree that keeping things in perspective is good. But I don't agree that Directs are in any way a disguised form of advertising. They're video press releases cut together with trailers and they show you the names and release dates. They couldn't be any more ad-like.Oh yeah I agree with this, like I don’t think people need to be any more or less excited for Directs because they’re an advertisement, obviously during A direct when you see a trailer for a game that looks good you’ll be excited to eventually play it and you shouldn’t feel any less excited because “the advertising got you”. I also think it’s fine for people to just view them as ads but I also think they shouldn’t then go and shame people for enjoying the community that’s formed around directs or people that are excited for them.
I feel like more and more companies try to make you not realize ads aren’t ads though, and it seems to be working because they keep doing it. And I see the way directs we’re done early on and how they’ve become these events of many trailers vs single trailers posted online as one of the ways to obscure the intention. Obviously that’s not to criticize the fans or developers, it’s targeted toward Nintendo the corporation and what they’re doing. Sometimes a reminder doesn’t hurt
Why did I think that was a telescope? Fever delirium I suppose.No, I would've worked harder to balance the purple and orange with the color cast (or lack thereof) on the raccoon boi because I'm obsessive over such things and probably would've also had the background be the red curtains from Mario 3 and thus wouldn't have finished and posted it for like a half hour or so.
I literally just googled "raccoon microphone" and google helped me out.
There it is, standard marketing. Looks like we're still on the 13th hype train
yeah, I shouldn't have even asked it as a jokeI don't understand questions like "what if you had to pay for Directs." We're clearly talking about some alternate universe where things have always worked that way, since there's no chance our universe is going to go in that direction now, so it's pointless to discuss using our values as people who have only lived in this universe.
I guess Nate meant that Nintendo will announce that they have a Direct planned but will have to delay it ?Announcement on Monday?
Does Nintendo ever announces Directs on Mondays? I can't recall.
There it is, standard marketing. Looks like we're still on the 13th hype train
People took it seriously for some reason.yeah, I shouldn't have even asked it as a joke
oh well
I think the conversation it spawned was interesting, even if it threw me for an initial loop, no worries dude.yeah, I shouldn't have even asked it as a joke
oh well
That’s not what he meant but he can speak for himself.I guess Nate meant that Nintendo will announce that they have a Direct planned but will have to delay it ?
Barring no change behind the scenes in terms of Direct timing... we'll be recording tomorrow night.Ok @NateDrake real talk here, when is the predictions video?
yeah I really shouldn't have paired it with what sounded like a serious answer lolPeople took it seriously for some reason.
In my defense, my brain is only half here because I'm sorta delirious from covid vaccine reactions. I might not have properly read the room.People took it seriously for some reason.
Eh! Nate!Barring no change behind the scenes in terms of Direct timing... we'll be recording tomorrow night.
source?Splatoon 3 launches today
There it is, standard marketing. Looks like we're still on the 13th hype train
Furukawa's morning coffee. It's literally in the coffee, like the question mark in the latest Batman movie.source?
Does this replace the Kirby ones or are there now 4-5 icon sets running concurrently?
i_understood_that_reference.gif.net.comEh! Nate!
I agree that keeping things in perspective is good. But I don't agree that Directs are in any way a disguised form of advertising. They're video press releases cut together with trailers and they show you the names and release dates. They couldn't be any more ad-like.
I would say that even in some convoluted scenario where someone has an unhealthy relationship to Nintendo Directs, the salient point for them shouldn't be to remember that it's an ad, but to remember that it's just entertainment.