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the mad duck made something spin around!
Yesterday, I watched a video about why no-one played NEO:TWEWY. I am not going to link to it, because it's an hour long, and it didn't really need to be, because the answer's simple. Squeenix dropped the ball on marketing.
I know this, because I didn't even know it was a game that existed until I saw Aoife's video about it on Eurogamer's channel, back in May/June last year. Admittedly, I don't know that many people who are into TWEWY any more, so it's unlikely I would have heard by word of mouth, but as far as I can recall, I didn't see any adverts, even after I knew it was coming out. And I still don't think they did a good job after release.
Compare Stranger of Paradise, which I have constantly seen ads for before AND after release. And yes, I know it's Final Fantasy, which is obviously Squeenix's bigger property, but COME ON. You can't not market something and then complain when it doesn't do as well as you expected.
Anyway, also yesterday, I had a small conversation in the comments of an Outside Xtra video, with one of the regular commenters, and discovered that Luke doesn't like Persona 5. Apparently he got to the bit where Yusuke is introduced, and decided he didn't like it, put the game down, and will never return to it. Which is a shame, but also completely understandable because that bit's awful, and I wish it wasn't in the game. I've even said in past entries it put me off Yusuke, so I absolutely get where Luke is coming from. I'm just sad he didn't give it more of a chance.
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As I was talking about thinking about writing in the last entry, I checked my general writing tag on here, and also looked through my twitter, and it turns out the last time I wrote and finished a story was in 2017! I also wrote and completed one in 2016! (They're both short stories)
This is far more recently than I thought it was! \o/
But the fact that I last wrote a finished thing in 2017 makes a lot of sense. That was when my mum became a lot more ill, so my brain was taken up with a lot more stuff, and I wasn't able to think about writing/being creative as much.
Also also: I looked through a folder of stuff that used to be in my writing ideas notebook (but I cut them out) and, although a lot of them are things I don't want to write, there's some pretty good ideas/useful stuff in there! Go past me!
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In sinus news, I think the pain is pretty much gone, except for in my teeth (don't ask how eating corn tortillas went last night), and now I am just feverish and a bit mucousy. Which is, of course, delightful. But I'm getting better, so yay!
I know this, because I didn't even know it was a game that existed until I saw Aoife's video about it on Eurogamer's channel, back in May/June last year. Admittedly, I don't know that many people who are into TWEWY any more, so it's unlikely I would have heard by word of mouth, but as far as I can recall, I didn't see any adverts, even after I knew it was coming out. And I still don't think they did a good job after release.
Compare Stranger of Paradise, which I have constantly seen ads for before AND after release. And yes, I know it's Final Fantasy, which is obviously Squeenix's bigger property, but COME ON. You can't not market something and then complain when it doesn't do as well as you expected.
Anyway, also yesterday, I had a small conversation in the comments of an Outside Xtra video, with one of the regular commenters, and discovered that Luke doesn't like Persona 5. Apparently he got to the bit where Yusuke is introduced, and decided he didn't like it, put the game down, and will never return to it. Which is a shame, but also completely understandable because that bit's awful, and I wish it wasn't in the game. I've even said in past entries it put me off Yusuke, so I absolutely get where Luke is coming from. I'm just sad he didn't give it more of a chance.
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As I was talking about thinking about writing in the last entry, I checked my general writing tag on here, and also looked through my twitter, and it turns out the last time I wrote and finished a story was in 2017! I also wrote and completed one in 2016! (They're both short stories)
This is far more recently than I thought it was! \o/
But the fact that I last wrote a finished thing in 2017 makes a lot of sense. That was when my mum became a lot more ill, so my brain was taken up with a lot more stuff, and I wasn't able to think about writing/being creative as much.
Also also: I looked through a folder of stuff that used to be in my writing ideas notebook (but I cut them out) and, although a lot of them are things I don't want to write, there's some pretty good ideas/useful stuff in there! Go past me!
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In sinus news, I think the pain is pretty much gone, except for in my teeth (don't ask how eating corn tortillas went last night), and now I am just feverish and a bit mucousy. Which is, of course, delightful. But I'm getting better, so yay!
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I honestly do not know wtf is up with Squeenix these days. They seem to be making bad decisions all over the place.