Your mind is boggling.

Yup I shake my head and see what words I can find.

and you only see it from the outside can you imagine what its like trying to live in here.

Pfft. L2BluesBros.

Yeah, I had to dust off 200 pounds of dust from it first.

I'll get my meat and two veg out for the good of the game!:eek:

UDE could have made the game about athletes and probably gotten a fairly decent number of players if they'd still had the Million Dollar PC behind it. Shaq and Kobe on Enemy of My Enemy? Autographed Kevin Garnett 4 drops in random packs? Just because it became based on comic book characters, doesn't mean that it had to be based on comic book characters to work.
I would take this bet 100 times out of 100, for any kind of stakes.

Yes, if Psylocke and Rouge did demo the games, more people would show up, but the issue is whether or not they would be quality demos that would get people interested in the game for longer than 20 minutes.

2 things.

1. UDE or UpperDeck did put out a sports card game (just before I got mine together bastards, a little more time a few more resources oh well). I understand it did not do that well but it had no $1million pro circuit. Better executed this looked like a gold mine.

2. If you believe it will attract people to the demo, to the booth, to the game, then you believe it would be a success. Sales is about numbers, most folks hang up on cold callers, but the ones that don't pay millions of peoples saleries, one thing they teach these guys is its all in the numbers, if you ring enough lines, or bang on enough doors you will make sales. Admittedly vs is different from a vacuum cleaner but the fact remains. Marketting is about branding, name recognition, and exposure. As we discussed about starters if you don't see a product you won't buy it no matter how good it is.

Marketing is the name of the game.

Conisder a marketing campaign along these lines:

You arrive at Gencon for your first or umpteenth time. While exploring the vendors floor you see a small group of people chattering loudly and excitedly and see lots of cameras flashing. The crowd seems a little daunting, but your curiosity begs you to come closer and investigate. Upon closer inspection, you see 2-3 incredible comic book icons talking to onlookers and posing for pictures and giving out FREE starters to people that take the demo for this card game. Free combined with great looking costumes and the promise of nothing more than a 5 minute investment of your time means you stopping and checking it out for a few moments. The hourly drawings for additional prizes also hold your attention. And then you see the players sitting around and playing this game, some playing in a multi-player game, others playing head to head and others still playing with what appears to be brand new packs, building their own decks out of whatever the cards in their handful of packs are. You have now seen that this game offers many different fun ways to be played, and you didn't even realize that you had stopped looking at Psylockes ### every time she turned around to face someone else. You actually were interested in learning a little more about this game.

Substitute that EXACT kind of scenario for Comicon and consider the possibilities.

Marketing to the people that will be interested is the key. Not marketing at all is a mistake that will lead to ruin.

Gee isn't that kinda what is happening to VS, the no marketing thing. (Well, not none, but very little).... Why don't they cross advertise VS on Yugioh's website or WOW's like they do for them on VS?

What happened to the Spoils exactly? I never played this game, and it sounds like it's dead now.

because they cant anger their partners at Konami and Blizzard.

thats the big reason Worlds is at origins and not Gen Con, because of blizzard.

Hot Chicks demoing + Big Prizes= They went belly up.

I think that, rather than wondering about what extras VS can offer to get players into the game, UDE should just fix up what we have in place right now. When the basics are already going well, VS can afford to dream of hot chicks doing demos. But not while VS is still having problems with distribution.