LogFAQs > #883409021

Well, as long as people see it and buy the game that's actually the point of advertising. They get what... a couple of fractions of a cent for each view. The game costs at least 50 bucks. You do the math.

Max is doing them a favor. If they spent 20k to create that video and no one watches it, that's almost a total loss. If you can convert 30% or so of your views into purchases then that's actually pretty good from a marketing perspective. I see what you're saying now 13 but you have to take the long term view into consideration. Max is a small fry in the grand scheme of things. However, you need people like him in the ecosystem to move units. I'll give a example... name a AAA VR game of the top of your head. You probably can't -- I know I can't either. It's because they get little coverage. So a fighting game with a 5 million dollar budget can clear more than a 5 million dollar VR game right now simply due to volume of sales (5 mil is low by the way... just one mo-capped character for a fighter can cost over 1.2 million is development costs alone).

This is also why SF V kinda sucks. They are literally making it up as they go along. If they released that doofus looking character on launch they would have gone bankrupt. Tournament proceeds and ad revenue along with endorsement deals (why they were on ESPN) is how they are paying the bills as they continue to produce this game on basically a cell phone freemium model. They need the ads and views to survive. If Max can't generate interest, they basically have to pull content from this region... they can't keep bleeding money. High views for their video gets them endorsement money which is real bread -- not table scraps from video views.

For the fighting game community currently 200K might seem like a lot. Linus (from LTT) did 274K in under 18 hours for the lately WAN show episode and that's actually kind of a slow day for him. I just put that in there for context as I watched both videos today.

Yes, Max needs to put a link in the description... but let's not go so hard on the guy, ok? He's a decent dude -- we can support him by constructive criticism (dude, where's the links) versus shenanigans like LTG is pulling.
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