wild video game marketing disasters that backfired...
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- Whether it be fake protests, outrageous marketing stunts, or even just simple in game events. Almost no video game is safe from marketing disasters.
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Mercenaries 2: World in Flames 0:00
Fortnite 2:17
PSP Billboard 5:38
PlayStation 3 Launch 6:46
PlayStation Network Hack 7:45
Fake PSP Rap Song 8:25
Dante's Inferno Fake Protest 10:28
Homefront Balloon Disaster 11:45
Xbox One Launch 12:27
343's Halo Era 13:53
Cyberpunk 2077 Launch 15:36
No Man's Sky Broken Promises 16:02
Call of Duty Infinite Warfare Reveal Trailer Dislikes 16:39
E3 Presentation Cringe 18:02
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Reddit Controversy 21:12
Gearbox CEO spicy USB stick 23:15
Subway's Pants Dance for Kids 24:29
Grand Theft Auto Controversies 27:46
The Day Before (it was gone) 31:19
German Doors 32:21
Godfather 2 & EA sending not so legal things to press 32:36
Resident Evil 5 Capcom looses fake body parts 34:09
How does it keep happening? 35:36
Nintendo PR Disasters 38:10 - เกม
"Fortnite MLK event" is such a South Park combination of words that I cannot believe it was real
they still do it every year for mlk day and have a mlk spray 😭
I’m crying laughing💀💀 this generation is beyond fucked
Yeah it doesn't feel real lol
Is that martin luther king from fortnite??
would you believe that isn't even the only controversy it's had?
IIRC for one year they had something playing at the drive in theater on the map during regular play. And players could throw tomatoes at the screen or something.
I still remember that video PlayStation made called "How to borrow games from your friend on PS4" and it was just two Sony employees in an office and one of them said "Hey can I borrow this video game" and the other was like "yeah sure". 15 second video. Crushing blow against Xbox.
😂
“Hey can I play a game” “no”
This aged like milk
Yeah and now you can't even cross play some games from PS4 to PS5 lol
minor correction (or addition? I wouldn't be surprised if they did another version of it) they did it on stage at the actual conference
DUDE A WHIP CRACK EMOTE LMAOOO
Oooh Yeah, don’t get me started, it brought up images of old school Southern Slavery in my head the moment they mentioned the whip crack emote
I mean the sign calling EA the electronic anti-Christ was pretty spot on. 😂
You know a company is pretty awful if even Disney is giving them the side eye
I need that sign
“Fortnite had an MLK event.”
I couldn’t help but laugh because I knew EXACTLY how this was gonna go down.
The whip crack emote being one of the only ones you could do is so ironic that it reeks of parody. It’s so egregiously absurd that it seems like a Chappell show bit.
The "Praystation" is hilarious
The whipcrack emote is crazy how did they miss that
The Infinite Warfare trailer was downvoted so hard because the franchise was stagnating, but way more than that, they showed a remaster of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, but revealed you could only get it with a special bundle of Infinite Warfare. That pissed people off to no end. Not mentioning that is a disservice to the story.
They said that they’d never sell the remaster separately then they did exactly that. I hate that I fell for that 🙁
@@dictatorofthecheese They did it after fan outcry.
@@walnzell9328
These days that probably wouln’t work given that they’re trying to ripoff Fortnite.
Call of Duty Infinite Warfare is so iconic with how hated it was. The game wasn't terrible, just that it was not what CoD players wanted. We at least got boots on the ground afterwards and never got another advanced movement CoD after that huge outrage by fans.
We’ve had boots on the ground since 2017 (excluding BO4). It’s time for something different
@@Genghis_of_Swansdoesn't warzone count?
@@icravedeath.1200no
the game was one of the better cods too lol
@@schmecklin377in what universe???? That game was garbage
"We hired people who hate Halo to destroy Halo"
- 343i
Dead Space 2 is one of my favorite games of all times, but the "Your mom hates Dead Space 2" campaign was so embarrassing. So immature.
Actually it was pretty cool and awesome and dope and I think you're gay
Surprised you did not include the God of War 2 launch party with dead goats and naked ladies feeding grapes to guests
truly authentic
I was about to mention this, to me this was the craziest PR stunt in gaming history.
I kinda wish gaming still had this edge. I don't particularly need dead goats and naked ladies, but I want to see something crazy. Like "Last 10 minutes in this MMA ring with a trained fighter and get this brand new fighting game and a console to go along with it!".
@@luckyducky7819Dead goats for the gods
Bring back events like this. WITH the naked ladies, stop pretending it wouldn't be great.
The way your videos start as old style compilations to then evolve into podcast, where your personalities and ideas have the chance to emerge, is truly what makes these types of videos so entertaining and unique. Sometimes I don't even realise that 40+ minutes have passed
i was in love with this format 15 seconds in. no intro bs nothing
Nintendo's biggest PR disaster has to be their constant abuse of copyright strikes. While admittedly, many people did have it coming (the guy who made that mod for Palworld that turns it into Pokemon did get donations from the community, which technically means he was making money off an IP without Nintendo's consent), most of the time it's completely uncalled for. Like when asked why AM2R was taken down, Reggie responded with saying it was a "commercial product" despite no evidence supporting said claims (Samus Returns being an official remake being the only reason I can think of, but it's not like people weren't gonna buy that after playing AM2R), and another example is last year, they threatened to shut down a Smash Ultimate tournament for disabled people for using third-party controllers. Not only isn't the use of third-party devices for first-party systems perfectly legal since they all have Bluetooth built in as standard, but it's even more jarring because Nintendo doesn't make any first-party controllers for the disabled and yet have the audacity to go overboard over something they know full well is even worse for PR. If any of the participants were children, it makes it even more of a disaster since Nintendo puts great emphasis on making games specifically for children. Thankfully in this case, the only thing stronger than Japanese copyright lawyers is Norwegian lawmakers.
The biggest difference is that Nintendo didn't suffer any sales or anything from it, except from online folks from social media which wasn't enough.
Nintendo is the only company that treats their employees with care while they treat their fan base with crap.
I wish it was the other way around.
You wish they treat there employees like crap? Yikes
@@Blanktester685 That's not what I said.
@@BaxterAndLunala the guy above them
18:32 To be fair to the guy (at least according to a vlog he made after the fail) his big moment was filled with technical difficulties making him panic. Could happen to anyone.
I've heard that Epic's contract with DC prevented the whip emote from being disabled, which just raises a whole bunch of questions, such as "Did Epic seriously not talk to DC and tell them how bad this would make them look?" Then again, knowing DC, they probably wouldn't care.
8:56 I remembered when Mr.Metokur played this on one of his streams. And i just kept laughing on how bad it was
I will never forgive the marketing of halo 5 guardians, it’s campaign was just terrible, and I didn’t want a repeat of that happening again, which is why I gave all of my feedback on halo infinite!
If he's 6 foot 7 inches, then that is a MASSIVE size door😮!
Fr 😂😂
same shit i said tf going on in germany man
Yo… mercenaries 2 was pretty basic as a game but as a kid them animations of pulling people out the vehicles and stuff definitely felt badass.
That game is elite. Get outta here
Never thought I'd see a "how to kill your brand" reference in the year 2024
Regarding the Halo community manager blaming the Ukraine war for not responding, the other crazy part of that was that guy's side account (which was linked to in his community manager account) was posting all weekend about crypto stuff and clearly he was focusing on his personal stuff.
When people saw him posting about crypto all weekend, then blamed the war for being distracted, it was way obvious. That stuff got hidden immediately and he was moved elsewhere in 343, but it was wild
I remember there was a controversy for Burnout where they would pay peoples speeding tickets and encouraged it
wait WHAT
@@xXRealXx Yeah lol also look up Crash and burn Burnout 3
@@xXRealXxyeah Acclaim Entertainment pulled like a dozen of these stunts to promote their games as they spiraled into bankruptcy.
The Burnout one however was pulled before it went through because yeahhhh you can't give people a cash offer to incentivize crimes.
In the words of Yahtzee, they were offering a mechanized version of The Purge
Great video lads. I still remember the whole Dante's protest lmao, btw the PSP rap is a certified classic.
30:26 The Punisher video game on the PS2 was also one of those edgy games that was deemed too violent because of the interrogation interactions. To keep its M rating, whenever Frank kills an enemy, the screen turns black and white so the game doesn’t show too much blood or gore. That’s just one example.
Hey, now. Homefront was an INCREDIBLE game... just not the sequel.
I LIKED homefront. It wasn’t exactly revolutionary (heh heh) but it was worth a play through. I mean at least it was a different and a new idea!
people swear that revolution is totally fixed, but man i played it maybe a year ago, it still was broken as hell
It’s actually crazy how the 360 nearly killed off PlayStation only for them to run probably the worst ever campaign in history for the Xbox One, allowing PS to just take first place again even a decade later. Insane fumble.
Huh? No it did not nearly kill off playstation lol. While yes. The sales of early PS3 models were terrible. that's because they sold them for $500 in 2007!
@@Unlucky1776 Yes, which is why I said “nearly”. I was a PS3 user and only tried out 360 towards the end of that generation’s era, the 360 blew PS3 out of the water. Compared to the commercial successes of PS1 and PS2, the Xbox very nearly took the mantle from PS. One can only wonder what would happen to the PS IP if a repeat happened with the Xbox One and PS4. As we know, Sony has a habit of very quickly discontinuing its products so it’s entirely possible.
Lol that is in NO WAY true fanboy
@@csvega I’m literally a PS fanboy lmao
@@Unlucky1776 Great to see my comments deleted over a normal response, so someone’s salty for whatever reason. Yes, Playstation absolutely tanked the console war of that generation and “NEARLY” killed off the console (I never said they did). We have seen how easily Sony gives up on its products, so had Sony stayed consistent with that ‘cash out quick’ model, we very possible could have seen the plug pulled on the PlayStation IP had the Xbox One premier campaign been another home run. Sony’s determination to claw the PS3 through the mud really got us to where we are now and I wish they put this much support into everything they make.
Regarding the Fortnite scandal, I used to work for Epic at the time when that happened. I was a technical support.
First of all, I laughed so hard when the kids found the exploit for the emote of the whip. But this was because of the legal agreement of DC and Epic. Basically other companies "rent" their IPs to Epic/ .
This means that in all times of the game, the linseed stuff cannot be disabled. It was so absurd and I still laugh to this day
BRUH the whipcrack is fucking hilarious. I'm dead.
Brass knuckles are legal in many states here in the US. Though sometimes they're only legal by default and a few county or city ordinances forbid them within their borders. Same with butterfly knives.
Guys your podcast section at the end IS WHAT MAKES YOU UNIQUE, really differentiates you from other videos that is just purely informative and WE LOVE IT, actually cannot stop watching you guys, no1 youtube addiction at the moment
I remember for the mlk event after the emotes got removed, I was still doing the worm 💀💀
12:04, I want to correct here, it was not THQ Nordic, just THQ. Nordic was the revival of the publisher after their bankruptcy.
The Venezuelan gas crisis still going to this day,i also wish Mercenaries 2 was available via backwards compatibility on xbox since the first game is...one of the fewer games based in my country even if the map layout was absolutely inaccurate
What's sad is it's not really a backwards compatibility issue; I mean it is, but not a technical one. It's a legal one. Apparently the license for Mercenaries 2 is so up in the air that no one can legally purchase and play it anymore.
I didn't realize this was your second channel, was just recommended this video and spent nearly all of it wracking my brain for where I knew your voice. The elijah channels great, keep it up!
Diablo immortals was at the blizard event not e3
That one of the first times Blizzard REALLY disappointed me.
This. Had to rewatch it to check what he said before showing the diablo stuff. Sounds alot as if he thinks this was at E3.
dO yOu gUyS nOt hAvE pHoNeS?
Halo 5 basically was a big lie since the Campaign basically had only 3 missions with Chief and half of it with Locke
Please keep the pod at the end of the episodes, my brain has been annihilated by brain rot content
I love your videos please keep it up man!
Really enjoy y’all’s content!
I love these videos man.
I played fort when the MLK event was going on when they had it played at the drive in theater and literally everyone was throwing tomatoes at the screen. It was hilarious
For racists maybe.
Damn.
That’s not funny .. it’s lame
@@MovieEggman it was funny asf.. wymm 🐒🐒🐒🐒
I don't know why. But Christmas psp rap reminds me of Chris-Chan joining parrapa rap contest to get psp for Megan.
Rocket Sloth with another video
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That Fortnite one is FUNNY! They actually did something kind of cool but still let people dance and shit which made it ridiculous.
Fortnite: only emote available by accident , something with a whip , during MLK event
me, hold up
PSP: white edition promotion
me:
💀💀💀💀
Honestly i didnt know how to feel about the podcast-esque but now, i really enjoy them and i think we would all like for yall to continue doing them. Its fun to hear and see yall just talk about stuff in that tyoe of format, i usually start to agree or disagree and talk like im actually there in a call or something 😂😂
I like it too! I just wish the camera was a little bit lower 😂
that shot at 14:27 not counting even though you saw the blood come out of his head 🤣🤣
11:45 great video! just a nitpick, it wasn't THQ Nordic, it was the original THQ that released the balloons.
The podcast section is fun, reminds me of some old shows on TH-cam where each person learns about a topic and then explains and talks about it, so you still get all the information, but the other person not knowing as much leads to a more conversational style with banter.
I never forgave sony after leaking all my personal info IN A FREAKING PLAINTEXT FILE.
I must've been under a rock when the Fortnite × MLK event dropped. That's crazy😂
Browsing Fortnite's MLK event as Travis Scott is wilder than the event itself 💀
Homefront deserved a greenlight. It was a great game. Just needed more funding. Also sucks that they swapped the enemy to NK. Could have just left it vague, but there is only one credible threat militarily to the US. Narratively, it HAD to be China. Not saying China would, just that they are the only ones who can.
Maybe next time EA can just giveaway Speedway gift cards.
I could listen to these to chat all day
Jeez I always thought that MLK thing in Fortnite was a meme people made up...
Im surprised the preorder incentive debacle for Deus Ex mankind divided wasn't covered. Where game unlocks were based on how many people would preorder and unlock features in the game. They scrapped it completely
sonys servers werent down multiple weeks. it was down multiple months..
I saw the PSP one and was like “how is this racist just a white woman and a background” i ran it back and was like “oh.”
It's still not actually racist.
In regards to the MLK event, I think Epic was contractually obligated to keep the DC emotes regardless of event. Otherwise, I can’t imagine Catwoman’s emote being allowed.
LOL these mess ups are insane and crazy lol
Sheesh bro got straight to it
Im actually surprised fortnite hasn't added a george floyd skin yet
Can't forget Artifact: The DOTA Card Game
The audible groan from the audience at the reveal was priceless.
I FORGOT ABOUT THE FORTNITE MLK EVENT HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I honestly thought Dante's Inferno's Sin to Win promotion was much worse for the game than fake protesters
Im so exited for which wakey charters are gonna make it cause we really know nothing about this games roster
Manhunt 1/2 is still banned here in New Zealand. You get a $20.000 fine if caught with it. I’ve still not played it but watched videos on TH-cam. Things I’ll do for a complete copy of them two for my collection 😢
I remember watching the xbox1 and the ps4 reveals live at E3 and the capital L sony handed xbox live on stage the next day after the xbone reveal was one of the greatest things ive ever witnessed live on TV. Up there with valves "artifact" reveal getting "booed" into oblivion
I feel like the gas promo for mercenaries is actually pretty sweet only problem is EVERYONE knew if they would’ve just kept it at “pop-up” level it probably would’ve went smoother imo
It's funny that everyone is Peter Molyneux now. At least his games were good on release though, even if they were only 30% of what he planned.
As soon as you mentioned the whip crack emote i immediately face palmed and lose my shit.
EA should have done what a lot of brass knuckle manufacturers do and put a threaded removable brass pin in it so it sits at a slight angle when placed on a desk and you can then say it is a paper weight 😂When I was a teenager I went through a phase of buying different gadgets and gizmos from China and all the brass knuckle listings had those little pins on them and my friend from school had a pair and his had the removable pin too. I thought I should mention he didn't bring them to school, he showed them to me when I went to his house.
I wonder how you get all this info
Oi, Chris Cunningham's PS3 adverts were amazing!
Holy crap, I completely forgot about mercenaries 2
I know everyone is commenting about the Fortnite MLK event but it’s actually so crazy that it was a real thing even if it was to ‘educate’ the youth 💀
Mannn Mercenaries 2 still is one of my favorite open world games. I remember playing it all the time as a kid
22:50 So, idk if you want an update to this, but there was an anncouncement this past week that the old Battlefront games from Pandemic, the classic ones from 2004, 2005, are getting new versions on all modern systems; Steam, Xbox Seres/One, PS4/5, and even the Switch, with multiplayer revived with up to 64 players!! Look this up I really do think more people should know about that, very exciting!
MW3: Still kinda modern but with some future tech
Black ops 2: remember BO1? too bad now its the future
Ghosts: guess what? MW3 but its in the future
Advanced: you can fly cuz its the future
Bo3: Its the future again
BO4: are you guys ready for teh future
Infinite: GUESS WHAT ITS THE FUTURE IN THIS ONE!!!!
Its hard to get exited when youve already done this 4 or 5 times before...
Mw2? Cod4?
1. Esio is a character in AC: Origins - a small child which the player meets during "The Flea of Cyrene" quest and later, grown up, in The Curse of the Pharaohs DLC. So not entirely wrong :)
2. You guys should really look into Acclaim's PR disasters. You can do a whole video on these alone.
I was waiting for anything Acclaim related the whole video! Maybe Turok and Shadow Man 2 have been talked about to death but man those are iconically awful
Mercenaries 2 was such a banger of a game. Loved it.
Another game that had disastrous marketing was Rule of Rose. They tried to go with controversy-based marketing by getting a publicist to make reports that heavily exaggerated or fabricated aspects of the game that could be seen as problematic, most notable being the erroneous claim that the game shows sexual content involving underage characters. This not only caused the game to get banned in several countries but also caused it to bomb in the countries that did get a release, causing the studio that developed it to shut down.
The MLK event in Fornite is such a US thing to do. "Let's do an event most people don't care, know little about if any at all except for those in the USA and even that is debatable. This truly won't backfire at all."
People outside of the US don't care or know about the civil rights movement? Should I not know or care about the Russian Revolution because I'm not Russian? Also Epic Games is an American company so I don't see the issue. Would you bash on a Chinese company for making something about their own history? But still MLK Fortnite continues to be cringe
That PSP poster was WILD. What was Sony thinking
Sony decided to be racist that year in particular.
Wuss
@@VelvetFoxshut up furry
That ad for the psp wasn’t even racist smh just cause it said “white is coming” big fucking deal. people need to get over themselves
@@jacobhammond6783 it was racist tho
That psp ad holy shit 💀
😂
Dantes inferno wasn’t that bad it would be cool if we got a second one for ps5
It is way more bad then what is told in this video, they made a competition to promote the game withe the 2nd circle of lust, whoever won the competition were rewarded with a “night of lust”
I feel like this could really benefit from some royalty free soft piano or something. It’s a good video tho
Idk Xbox maybe pushed to hard with the console being an entertainment system but really that’s what consoles have become, I use my Xbox most days to just watch tv and chat with friends that I don’t get to see as much as I like.
I did not know about the fortnite MLK thing but that's WILD, especially the emote thing
nintendo is a walking PR disaster, but they're so monolithic and makes such good games that it doesn't matter in the slightest
that randy pitchford story is my favorite piece of gaming history. SHE WAS A FUCKING MAGICIAN
The Ubisoft micro transaction rise is almost worse than EA's. It was less predatory as most was cosmetic but it happened pretty well the same way, out of no where and above and beyond
I certainly enjoyed playing Dante's Inferno, in fact i completed the game in Inferno difficulty and liked the ending even though there wasnt a sequel to it but ended nicely. When i first played it and got to the second ring: Lust and heard the moans, i immediately muted the volume because my parents thought i was watching something i wasnt supposed to but i ended up completing the level and went to Gluttony. But I suppose Dante's Inferno must've made Catholics mad because of how the game was depicting hell i suppose or maybe because of Lucifer.
Woah woah woah, wait just a minute. The first homefront was good.
Mercenaries 2 is one of the best games I ever played back in the day, and they need to remaster it and bring it back.
In the end of the day, the phrase "any publicity is good publicity" doesn't work on these cases
The "alliwantforxmasisapsp" thing I found out through the weirdest of ways: Ashens. Yes, that same Ashens who reviews tat on his brown sofa. One of his earliest videos was a parody video on this topic.
I hope the video game preservation organization is able to save Jared's pants dance for future generations to enjoy