tripsis Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 The new RuneScape cinematic trailer will start appearing as an advert on UK TV. From the official RuneScape Facebook: (click this to view the video ad on Facebook) RuneScapeExciting news! We have some ads going out on UK TV during the next couple of weeks. Let us know what you think if you manage to catch one! You can also see a new splash page here: http://www.playrunescape.com I wonder if this will be comparable to the "MiniClip" generation. It's the first time RuneScape will be on TV - do you guys think it will affect the community at all? - 99 fletching | 99 thieving | 99 construction | 99 herblore | 99 smithing | 99 woodcutting - - 99 runecrafting - 99 prayer - 125 combat - 95 farming - - Blog - DeviantART - Book Reviews & Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saradomin_Mage Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Well, it's nice to see that they finally made the jump to TV ... If it does pull in new players, then yeah, it could herald a new generation of Miniclippers (or whatever we'll call these new guys). I'm kind of sceptical of the power of this advert, though. In real life MMO you don't get 99 smithing by making endless bronze daggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy_jim Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 cute RIP Michaelangelopolousu can control my tip it account, but youll never control how fine i am!This is by FAR my favorite song: I love N_odie and would never edit his posts! I love Rainy_Day too <3 And also Cowman_133. <33 Oh, and Laikrob is a going to hunt me down and kill me like a pest kangaroo if I reveal how awesome she is. I owe tripsis skittles. DarkDude feels like he's missing out. This is my siggy! - n_odie Rainy_Day MINE! - n_odie Rainy_Day And meol shouldn't feel left out. Oh, and Y_Guy is a noob awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sy_Accursed Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 I don't see why they need a new special url for it.Surely www.runescape.com is easier to remember than www.playrunescape.com for coming away from a TV ad. I mean when you want to find the website of something you saw on TV or a store you generally automatically try www.[company/gamename].com (or .co.uk for ukers, though tend to try com first) Also tbh I doubt the TV ad will do a HUUUUGGGGGGE amount, it's probably airing on one of the obscure channels that isn't one of the big ones people watch (meaning itv 1 and 2, ch 4, ch5, e4) and even if it is on the big channels it'll probably be wedged in with the toy adverts only ever shown early morning in the kids shows. Operation Gold Sparkles :: Chompy Kills :: Full Profound :: Champions :: Barbarian Notes :: Champions Tackle Box :: MA RewardsDragonkin Journals :: Ports Stories :: Elder Chronicles :: Boss Slayer :: Penance King :: Kal'gerion Titles :: Gold Statue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylpheed Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Depending on how widespread it is across different channels then this could potentially draw in a pretty big audience. This is definitely a decision made by the investors to try and make RS more mainstream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saradomin_Mage Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Lol ok I just went to actually view the ad, which in its twenty seconds of glory is at best extremely truncated and pretty random. Don't see how that'll pull anyone in exactly :P Surely www.runescape.com is easier to remember than www.playrunescape.com for coming away from a TV ad.I'm gonna make a completely wild guess and presume that they'll count hits on playrunescape.com, which will roughly gauge the advert's success? In real life MMO you don't get 99 smithing by making endless bronze daggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaida23 Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 I'm glad that they're trying to reach out to a new audience, but I'm not sure that ad is the way to do it. If I saw that ad and then looked at what the game is actually like, I'd be pretty put off and probably wouldn't play. Check out my blog to read the Adventures of a Big Damn (F2P) Hero. THE place for all free players to connect, hang out and talk about how awesome it is to be F2P. So, Kaida is the real version of every fictional science-badass? That explains a lot, actually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 wow Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sy_Accursed Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Lol ok I just went to actually view the ad, which in its twenty seconds of glory is at best extremely truncated and pretty random. Don't see how that'll pull anyone in exactly :P Surely www.runescape.com is easier to remember than www.playrunescape.com for coming away from a TV ad.I'm gonna make a completely wild guess and presume that they'll count hits on playrunescape.com, which will roughly gauge the advert's success? No doubt that is true, yet the great irony at work here is two-fold; firstly half of us already went to that link to see what the difference is (and many others will no doubt do the same) which skews the figures AND by using a url that's harder to remember and use later they probably will actually cause less people to come to it. I'd be willing to wager that most people seeing the advert will more likely just remember 'runescape' and end up entirely avoiding the playrunescape url. Operation Gold Sparkles :: Chompy Kills :: Full Profound :: Champions :: Barbarian Notes :: Champions Tackle Box :: MA RewardsDragonkin Journals :: Ports Stories :: Elder Chronicles :: Boss Slayer :: Penance King :: Kal'gerion Titles :: Gold Statue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 WHY IS THE VOICEOVER AMERICAN!!!!!!!!!!!?????!!!!!! Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceus Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Does a trailer ever look like the actual movie/game product? No. "Fight for what you believe in, and believe in what you're fighting for." Can games be art? --- My blog here if you want to check out my Times articles and other writings! I always appreciate comments/feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star. Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 I don't like trailers that have 'not actual game footage' tags as I feel it's false advertising. New players will be in for a shock when they log on to play. ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocefisso Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 That has to be one of the most useless adverts I've seen in a long time, even considering the fact it is nothing like the game. "Imagine yourself surrounded by the most horrible cripples and maniacs it is possible to conceive, and you may understand a little of my feelings with these grotesque caricatures of humanity about me." - H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drazhor Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Love how it shows such dynamic combat in the trailer, yet in-game...I cringe so much as Ozan doing the point-and-wink near the beginning :( Visit my blog! Click the madness for more madness! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Players arent stupid. They know that games dont look like the trailers. Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceus Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Well, they have to be prepared for the Squeal of Fortune banners somehow. "Fight for what you believe in, and believe in what you're fighting for." Can games be art? --- My blog here if you want to check out my Times articles and other writings! I always appreciate comments/feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonanananas Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Well I don't know what it's like in the UK, but here in germany there are literally dozens of MMOs that have ads running on the TV. The first one may have interested people, but (at least for me personally) with all of them running so often, you don't really take them seriously anymore and sure as hell are not interested enough to check it out. And tbh, the Runescape trailer is pretty weak. It has nothing to do with the game(which doesn't *have* to be bad and isn't unusual), but at the same time it by far doesn't use the potential of cinematic trailers to make this game feel epic. I doubt this advert is going to do much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piu Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 I doubt they'll be using the cinematic trailer for the actual TV adverts. [hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide][hide]Never gonna give you up.[/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide][/hide]"We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonanananas Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 I doubt they'll be using the cinematic trailer for the actual TV adverts. I just watched the trailer...and it's just cut together from the cinematic one, basically just some scenes of fighting against the troll jumbled together. No explanation whatsoever, nothing that tells you why this game is good, nothing that builds up a connection to the viewer and over far too quickly. Seriously, this is a *horrible* trailer. It's really, really bad. And now they're paying money to put this on Tv channels >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwreeTak Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 If they show this on the popular channels in the UK, we might very well get many, many new members of RS. That would be great :) Add me if you so wish: SwreeTak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximusa Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 That clip put together from the other video thing we had is cute and all for current players. We can look at it and go 'aww thats cute' which is great and all. From some of our perspectives it doesnt necessarily look childish because we know the game itself that its representing isnt necessarily childish. However imo it does probably seem a bit childish for people who dont know the game and might be joining. So unless they put this on children channels at their prime times. Im not too sure how successful it would be. This advert would probably be more successful if it was adapted for internet banner adverts or something. One of those irritating options that many people block and dont see anyway. =p I mean I can fully imagine seeing that advert on tv when im watching kids programs with my nephew or niece or something.. Good thing im there to warn them about the dangers of gambling and tell my brothers not to let them play. :rolleyes: (Seriously) Uncle Bazzaminxer is a mean old bean. I find it hard to take the advert seriously if it was played at most other times/channels. VMeh BlogV >Miscellaneous Goals< http://www.rsbandb.com/sigs/sig108/bazzaminxer.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trade_With Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Cringe @Trade_With Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J35u5_M4 Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 'Not game footage' lololololololol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaaps1 Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 sad ~It's Super Effective! (The Zaaps Blog)~My YouTube Channel, where you get to watch me go around and make a fool out of myself and all comp capersGuides:~Yeah I wrote them once~Suggestions:~Yeah I made those once~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toad Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Somebody had to. Spent a good 30 minutes in photoshop just to prove a point to Jagex, they're far from the reality [hide][/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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