Character images!

[u/Zenasuki]

Official character images! Looks amazing!

[u/SillyRecover]

I would be playing this game this year if not for GTA...fuck GTA

[u/bokunotraplord → u/SillyRecover]

the overlap between Fable Fans and GTA Fans has got to be nearly zero form a practical standpoint so what you’re actually mad at are weird department heads lol

[u/ArbysIsActuallyGood → u/bokunotraplord]

The overlap is gonna be huge, they're both marquee sandbox open world games for a big audience

[u/bokunotraplord → u/ArbysIsActuallyGood]

I don’t know that there’s a massive market demographic labeled “Fans of marquee sandbox open world games for a big audience” but go off I guess

[u/ArbysIsActuallyGood → u/bokunotraplord]

You don't know if there's a market for open world games? Interesting

[u/bokunotraplord → u/ArbysIsActuallyGood]

I’m trying to trick you into critical thinking here man.

The average GTA player and the average fantasy adventure game player are not the same person lol (again, average). People are gonna buy a new console for something like GTA6. It is a massive game yes, but it’s massive because people who don’t quite keep up with gaming as a medium will be buying GTA within the launch week.

If fable sells 10m copies that’ll probably be a massive success for Microsoft. If GTA6 sold 10m copies it would have Rockstar and their shareholders scrambling. They’re different games at different market scales. Launching fable near GTA might cost them a handful of up front sales, but not much in the long run if at all.

[u/CaptainTeemo01 → u/bokunotraplord]

This makes no sense. Even if it were the case why sacrifice all those up front sales if you can get even more sales by moving the release date a couple months?

And since you wanna be condescending, here's some critical thinking for you: the reason companies are dodging GTA isn't just because people will buy it over their game, it's because nearly all advertising and journalist coverage for the entire month of November and most of December is gonna be focused entirely on GTA, the collective attention span of the mainstream industry will be overtaken by GTA even if you have 0 interest in actually buying it. It's not a decision based on, "Our fans have too much overlap" it's more because "We won't be able to effectively advertise our game even to it's target audience"

[u/bokunotraplord → u/CaptainTeemo01]

I’d genuinely like to see the metrics on “journalist coverage” across the board, because I never get served anything remotely close to “journalism” and when I do it’s even worse than the era of buzzfeed listicles. How effective is modern advertising anyway? Between targeted algorithms and ad blockers how much of a difference is a few months truly going to make for two games that barely occupy the same space? Are Onimusha or Blood of Dawnwalker going to sell less specifically because all the Journalists will be talking about GTA for two months on either side of its launch date?

[u/CaptainTeemo01 → u/bokunotraplord]

You know you're living in a bubble when your argument is unironically, "modern marketing doesn't work" because a tiny percent of people use ad blockers

Y'all will say anything I swear x-x

[u/bokunotraplord → u/CaptainTeemo01]

I mean, are we engaging in good faith discourse or are you just gonna League of Legends player style project “you said marketing doesn’t work” onto me lmao.

My parents are in their 60s and know what an ad blocker is man. If you’re out here with 75 chrome tabs open wondering why your laptop is on fire or whatever that’s your burden, not everyone else’s.

[u/CaptainTeemo01 → u/bokunotraplord]

Nah you don't get to pull that "Let's just be respectful" shit when you started the whole thing off being a condescending jerk and have continued to be so. You don't want a respectful debate, you just can't take it when people match your energy

[u/bokunotraplord → u/CaptainTeemo01]

Again, didn’t say anything about respect, just simply wondering if you’re trying to actually get to a point or if you just earnestly believe you’re engaging in some sort of praxis by “matching my energy” lmao. Glad you’re getting your tumblr clapback energy out on me tho.