Comments for MX981 http://www.mx981.com Nibbles on Video game, Design, Book'n such Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:50:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 Comment on by chuchunain http://www.mx981.com/2008/06/22/303/#comment-1194 chuchunain Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:53:55 +0000 http://www.mx981.com/2008/06/22/303/#comment-1194 les geeks se reproduisent maintenant. on arrête pas le progrès. félicitations ! les geeks se reproduisent maintenant. on arrête pas le progrès. félicitations !

]]> Comment on by Nico http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/14/328/#comment-1193 Nico Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:31:11 +0000 http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/14/328/#comment-1193 Yeah, i've seen this video (from kotaku?) friday. I was amaze by this very talented and passionate kid. Yeah, i’ve seen this video (from kotaku?) friday.
I was amaze by this very talented and passionate kid.

]]> Comment on by Lama Himself http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/08/314/#comment-1192 Lama Himself Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:54:47 +0000 http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/08/314/#comment-1192 It does matter because his whole reflection is just based on his crushed ego. Exactly the same case when he started complaining about the previews and the demo for E3 because his game was criticized by the press. Any constructive reflection should be done objectively and not pushed by a strong emotion aginst some people or a system. And Denis talks well with nice reference but his argument his biased. For example he started with the ethics of work and how silicon knights is ethical and the other companies not. The fact is that there is close to no connection with the subject. It's just a fallacy. nobody will say he is wrong on this point so his whole argument should be correct. It's just manipulation. And the podcast continue in the same vein. You can agree to a lot of things in what he said, but it doesn't mean he is right at the end. And at the end the cloud of "closing NeoGAF" appear even if he said he doesnn't want that. But he says it and after this is in the mind of everybody. So he threats NeoGAF without saying it. It's totally childish. "how really effective all this is. I mean, who read video games forums and reviews…?" Well you have to see the communication as a chain because people talk to each others. The only information channel is not just the shops and advertisment (the ones that the publisher prefer because they control them). People often buy a game because they heard about it through their friends and colleagues. The friends maybe know an other friend, that have a friend that read kotaku and will discover neogaf and so realize the game is not really appreciated in the community. And this person will spread the message. This is how a message propagate, and it works well especially for bad publicity. This is why ad agency become more and more about buzz control. It does matter because his whole reflection is just based on his crushed ego. Exactly the same case when he started complaining about the previews and the demo for E3 because his game was criticized by the press.

Any constructive reflection should be done objectively and not pushed by a strong emotion aginst some people or a system.

And Denis talks well with nice reference but his argument his biased.
For example he started with the ethics of work and how silicon knights is ethical and the other companies not. The fact is that there is close to no connection with the subject. It’s just a fallacy. nobody will say he is wrong on this point so his whole argument should be correct. It’s just manipulation.
And the podcast continue in the same vein. You can agree to a lot of things in what he said, but it doesn’t mean he is right at the end.

And at the end the cloud of “closing NeoGAF” appear even if he said he doesnn’t want that. But he says it and after this is in the mind of everybody. So he threats NeoGAF without saying it. It’s totally childish.

“how really effective all this is. I mean, who read video games forums and reviews…?”

Well you have to see the communication as a chain because people talk to each others. The only information channel is not just the shops and advertisment (the ones that the publisher prefer because they control them). People often buy a game because they heard about it through their friends and colleagues. The friends maybe know an other friend, that have a friend that read kotaku and will discover neogaf and so realize the game is not really appreciated in the community. And this person will spread the message.
This is how a message propagate, and it works well especially for bad publicity. This is why ad agency become more and more about buzz control.

]]> Comment on by podcast directory http://www.mx981.com/2008/05/24/293/#comment-1191 podcast directory Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:32:54 +0000 http://www.mx981.com/2008/05/24/293/#comment-1191 Nicely put Nicely put

]]> Comment on by krousty_bat http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/08/314/#comment-1190 krousty_bat Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:50:04 +0000 http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/08/314/#comment-1190 (..)if the buzz around Too Human was positive and NeoGAF was praising the game he would never had the idea to create such topic and would be pretty happy how fans can support his game(..) Probably... but does it matter ? is the point here is why this all started, hum probably not. He have some interesting point though and he is reading cool books :). personnally, it's enought for me :) on a commercial point of view, he is defending his game the best he can because he is not part of the automatic "media stream" when a product is decided to be good and pushed by media. my thoughts when cheking all this little turbulence in an ocean, are much more: how really effective all this is. I mean, who read video games forums and reviews...? well, nobody, so i think more and more that teenagers or "geeks" (like Laurent fisher VP of Nintendo europs) calls them are really what they are, and don't impact anymore or at all your product, if from scratch, your product is maint to be for a general audience or is simply good. Who cares if 10.000 people are bitching on your game, if 1.000.000 are enjoying it? (and are good for them and the society at the same time to add my personnal point of view :). (..)if the buzz around Too Human was positive and NeoGAF was praising the game he would never had the idea to create such topic and would be pretty happy how fans can support his game(..)

Probably… but does it matter ?
is the point here is why this all started, hum probably not. He have some interesting point though and he is reading cool books :).
personnally, it’s enought for me :)

on a commercial point of view, he is defending his game the best he can because he is not part of the automatic “media stream” when a product is decided to be good and pushed by media.

my thoughts when cheking all this little turbulence in an ocean, are much more: how really effective all this is. I mean, who read video games forums and reviews…? well, nobody, so i think more and more that teenagers or “geeks” (like Laurent fisher VP of Nintendo europs) calls them are really what they are, and don’t impact anymore or at all your product, if from scratch, your product is maint to be for a general audience or is simply good.

Who cares if 10.000 people are bitching on your game, if 1.000.000 are enjoying it? (and are good for them and the society at the same time to add my personnal point of view :).

]]> Comment on by Kosmi http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/08/318/#comment-1189 Kosmi Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:37:40 +0000 http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/08/318/#comment-1189 hey :-) i'm german- got an excuse as well... but we all should be glad, that gta IV didn't orientate on THIS: http://www.tvdb.info/gfx/v/v2450.gif hey :-)

i’m german- got an excuse as well… but we all should be glad, that gta IV didn’t orientate on THIS:

http://www.tvdb.info/gfx/v/v2450.gif

]]> Comment on by krousty_bat http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/04/312/#comment-1188 krousty_bat Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:49:29 +0000 http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/04/312/#comment-1188 well, alright, technicly, i took the best 20 inch available last week, because the 24 was just to big :P... But i loved it too (after having to bring back my first broken one.), Boocamp is working perfectly for games and mac os as default system for the rest. Awesome :) well, alright, technicly, i took the best 20 inch available last week, because the 24 was just to big :P…
But i loved it too (after having to bring back my first broken one.), Boocamp is working perfectly for games and mac os as default system for the rest. Awesome :)

]]> Comment on by krousty_bat http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/08/318/#comment-1187 krousty_bat Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:45:35 +0000 http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/08/318/#comment-1187 nop, funny :)... but i'm french so i have an excuse, we had a different logo: http://www.parlonstv.com/tv/emission/juste-prix.jpg nop, funny :)…
but i’m french so i have an excuse, we had a different logo:

http://www.parlonstv.com/tv/emission/juste-prix.jpg

]]> Comment on by Lama Himself http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/04/312/#comment-1186 Lama Himself Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:38:28 +0000 http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/04/312/#comment-1186 It's my all new 24" iMac. I just love it. It’s my all new 24″ iMac. I just love it.

]]> Comment on by fatfish http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/06/313/#comment-1185 fatfish Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:37:23 +0000 http://www.mx981.com/2008/07/06/313/#comment-1185 great article ! thanks :) great article !
thanks :)

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