What is the story with those dominion ads??

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DryaUnda said:
Although the model in the first ad has nice legs, I'd also like to see pictures of scantly clad men, pretty-boy underwear model types. Once you have naked boys, it won't be sexist anymore. .

That's been taken care of:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...ev=#Post595375

[Renojustin]

My biggest gripe with the ad isn't the obnoxious patronism or blatant, and ineffective, attempt at being 'sexy', it's the fact that the woman in question looks like some kind of retarded bondage Borg.

[Endoperez]

Renojustin said:
My biggest gripe with the ad isn't the obnoxious patronism or blatant, and ineffective, attempt at being 'sexy', it's the fact that the woman in question looks like some kind of retarded bondage Borg.

Please don't prove him wrong by posting retarded bondage Borg porn.


These ads are visible everywhere on Shrapnel Games' forum. The fact that the Dominions community ALSO sees them is insignificant - the target audience seems to be people who have bought other games published by Shrapnel Games. I'd much rater like to see these ads outside Shrapnel site, because most gamers here like hardcore strategy games and have heard of Dominions. People outside this community might or might not follow a link like that, but they might wonder what Dominions 3 is. If they bothered to read about it and had ever played any kind of fantasy kingdom game, chances are they'd be interested, because the game is just so awesome.

I also expect that Shrapnel knows what kind of people buy and play Dominions. I think it's mostly people over 25 and under 40, with people under 16 and over 50 totalling under 10% altogether.

[Kristoffer O]

vfb said:
I have sufficient faith in the developers to believe that this marketing campaign is going to have no influence on the game itself.

Oh dear, it has had an effect!
I'm sorry! There will be some male nudity in the new patch

[Sombre]

We've already got the alternate costume of the lord of fertility. Do we really need more wang? Of course we do.

[VedalkenBear]

Speaking for myself, I find the ads rather tasteless.

As far as 'hot women' liking these games, there is no logical reason why they shouldn't; one of my friends in high school was the head of the Dance Team (and looked it), and was the Captain of the Hurricanettes at UM her senior year there... and majored in Computer Engineering. If she didn't graduate at least Magna Cum Laude, I will be very much surprised.

[Ironhawk]

Yeah, even after all the commentary about how its a joke and whatnot, I still find the ad offensive. I think if they'd just made even the slightest head-nod to dominions, like the Bog Beast furry doll or something, I would have been able to swallow it.

And to your comment Wokeye: yeah I understand the advertising concept of "any attention is good attention", but in this case I cant say I agree with it. I mean, this ad campaign has lowered the degree of respect that I have for Shrapnel as a whole. How can a campaign be considered a success if it is alienating a repeat buyer?

[Evil Dave]

I found the ad (well, the "fluttering corner" bit) distracting, and added shrapnel to my noscript block list. In that sense, the ad has been a bad for them, since I no longer see any of their ads.

General hint to ad guys: annoying the customer is bad.

[DonCorazon]

You guys must get offended a lot if you live in the US. Not sure how you could even watch TV here given all the programming you must find offensive, if the Dom ad falls into that category.

[Sombre]

I don't find it offensive, I find it lame. I have little respect for people who would advertise dom3 that way, regardless of how successful.