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echo: video_games
to: JONATHAN FINGAS
from: KANO VUONG
date: 1998-01-15 18:35:00
subject: Re: Console ads

JF>  KV> Fine, if you say so.  Look at how many copies of FF7 were sold due 
to 
KV> the 
JF>  KV> advertisement.  Chevy cars and trucks are the worst.  No one wants 
tho
JF>  KV> Everyone would rather buy a ford or toyota.
JF> 
JF>   Due to the ads?  Don't make me laugh!  Those people bought FF7 because 
of
JF> its predecessors' fine points, not because of lots of pre-rendered 
animatio
JF> clips playing for 30 seconds.  Quake wasn't advertised at all until it 
came
JF> out, but it did extremely well.
JF> 
Sigh,  get through your head.  The FF7 advertisements helped attract people 
besides FF veterans.  Quake was heavily advertised in magazines and the net.
The reason it wasn't advertised on TV because there isn't a big market for 
advertising computer games.
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