Comments on: Game Industry PR 101 http://www.chrispramas.com/2008/12/05/game-industry-pr-101/ The Furious Scribblings of Chris Pramas Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.10 By: Vincennzo Capelli http://www.chrispramas.com/2008/12/05/game-industry-pr-101/#comment-241 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:56:00 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=84#comment-241 Corporate speak is usually what you get when they don’t want to speak honestly about why the layoffs are happening for one reason or another. It just means there’s an untold story here.

I don’t suppose you know what that story is, Mr. Pramas?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.chrispramas.com/2008/12/05/game-industry-pr-101/#comment-240 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:23:00 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=84#comment-240 Actually, it looks to me like they do understand gamers: the statement was assembled by rolling on a Judges Guild random phrase generator table, wasn’t it?

Spike Y Jones

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.chrispramas.com/2008/12/05/game-industry-pr-101/#comment-239 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:46:00 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=84#comment-239 I don't think that Hasbro really understand the RPG fan. On a fundamental level. They fail to do basic marketing in a manner that will attract rather than repel the D&D; player.

Boy I hope 4E fails miserably.

]]> By: OlmanFeelyus http://www.chrispramas.com/2008/12/05/game-industry-pr-101/#comment-238 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:33:00 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=84#comment-238 That quote was amazing. I mean even CEO’s in the big time corporations try to add a bit of a human touch in their text these days. That shite went out with the ’90s. I particularly like the line “executing against our major digital initiatives”. They certainly have done a great job executing against the DDI and Gleemax! 🙂

]]> By: Huss http://www.chrispramas.com/2008/12/05/game-industry-pr-101/#comment-237 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:09:00 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=84#comment-237 The corp BS lines used to be so thick at my old job, I would seriously bring a “boardroom bingo” card with me to Department Head meetings and play.

With just that phrase you mentioned Chris, I could probably have won. All I would have needed was “at the end of the day”

]]> By: Jeff Tidball http://www.chrispramas.com/2008/12/05/game-industry-pr-101/#comment-234 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:04:00 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=84#comment-234 A-fucking-men, Chris. I had precisely the same reaction to that robotic crapspeak.

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]]> By: ~jess http://www.chrispramas.com/2008/12/05/game-industry-pr-101/#comment-233 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:25:00 +0000 http://chrispramas.com/?p=84#comment-233 How about “everyone’s worried about every penny they’re spending, we’ve got to cutback or risk going under.”

Same message, but without the “we’re doing this for your own good” double-talk.

Yes, times are hard. But compassion doesn’t cost anyone anything.

Well spoken.

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