How to be a Pro game publisher.... NOT

Hi all!after buying many many games, I have found out how to be a pro!!

this post is a sarcastic tutorial on how to be “Just like the pro’s!”
(if you big @$$-holes wanna sue me for my honest opinion, good luck on getting blood out of a turnip!)

as I said before this is just a comic, dont try this at home…

Rules:

1… Make sure that the end user has to type in a “activation code” to play.
That way only the people who purchased your game get punished and have to BOW to you and submit a code before they even play the game.
It also rewards people who downloaded the pirate version, because they get to skip this part.

2… make Sure your game is incomplete upon release…
This gains massive amounts of revenue from your little peon affiliates , they get to fly their little banners and make you wait in line to get the patches needed to play the game you payed money for.all the time they get +1 cent for makeing the end user stare at the banners.

It also keeps the kids coming back to the site and seeing your upcoming game advertisements
People who downloaded the pirated version get to skip this part.

3… after the end user patches the game, make sure you make them create an account.
this aids pedophiles in gaining access to the children’s private data Be sure to ask questions like Address, Phone number, and anything else a sick person might need to attack your customers with their sexual assault .
People who downloaded the pirate version get to skip this part as well.

4… make sure your game only plays on certain types of CD and DVD drives.
This way you get to gain extortion money from hardware manufactures!

5… Make sure the installer makes directories and Start button links to the company name FIRST, then the game name…
This will make your mindless customers see your company name every time they want to play the game…
They must pay tribute to you before they get to where they want to go.

6… make uninstallers delete everything, except the folder with the company name on it.

7… Make sure the gamer See’s your logo on the startup screen. Dont let them access the actual game they payed for, until they see the animation with your company logo.
only after they see your logo, then let them press escape.
Better yet… make it a different key every time, this will make them stare at your logo longer!

8… use Pre-rendered scenes of the actual game models in the snapshots on the back of the box, and for your TV commercials). That way your end uses get to feel Truly cheated and longing for more.

9… Buy ads in popular magazines… it is totally obvious that the games that have Ad’s get better reviews.

10… place your cd-s and DVD-s in paper envelopes…
This insures that the end user damages the disk every time they use it. The way the laws are the end user gets screwed, and has to pay for a new cd… this means double the profits for you!

Well unfortunately that sounds awfully close to how some game companies do it.

Nice tut. Yeah I’ll make a game full of bugs and then release a patch that they have to pay for to fix the glitches on the first level, then another for the second level, and so on:p

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I totaly get this! Man, this has to be stickied or something.

True Master of Wisdom, I offer you my allegiance.

amazing, lol(yes, this tute merits a ‘lol’)
Drew

wow, this is EA in writing!

Amazing… truly amazing tutorial. Treasures.

Oh Man! I always wondered how they did it! Thanks p00f!

I hope nobody important sees this thread and deletes it…what a wealth of dirty little secrets!

freedom of speech man!:slight_smile:

Nice post. Have you got more?
I’d like more :P!

IM GONNA BE NICER IN 07!!! :slight_smile: except to empire, if he still is around :rolleyes:

That one is SO true.Happens to me ALL the time. :mad:

Wow, this is the truest evaluation of the industry I’ve seen yet. I just nabbed Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, and Quake 4, both of which adhere to these principals. I still can’t figure out how to play DMoM&M online. Between the mandatory registration that doesn’t work, and the crappy Steam service, I don’t know what to think. Why did I have to download another 100MB file to try to play online? Shouldn’t that have been included? THQ fucked me over with their Company of Heroes multiplayer. You have to enter a CD key seperately for that from the initial installation, too bad I threw mine out 2 months ago. I had to download 3 seperate patches for FarCry because the newer ones didn’t include the older ones, but required them. It’s sad to see the software distribution industry has become as fat and corrupt as the music distribution service.

P.S. Steam sucks.

Nice work Poof! Now i have the know-how to become a Pro Game Publisher! :smiley:

Curious though… what button do you press for BF2142? lol

DMoM&M is the best! XD

LMAO this has EA written all over it :slight_smile:

(Totally of-topic)By the way, has anyone seen the trailer for 300? It’s a movie about spartans apparently, I thought of it when I saw redteam_spartn’s name… anyway warlovers & fans of greek mythology, it’s the best…

DMoM&M is a pretty good game, but the bugs and the multiplayer hassle brought it down a couple pegs for me.

Offtopic: yeah 300 looks awesome.
Anyway, i’m about to start Playing some BF2142! :smiley:
Seriously, it’s a good game.

Roffle!! 7 and 8 were great too. Your a funny man.

This is sad but true. Especially the pre-rendered “screenshots” really bug me. How about when they show clips from pre-rendered cutscenes, and proudly state that they depict actual in-game content? It’s true, yes, but…no.

One thing you forgot: games which install updaters/registering naggers that run in the background all the time, occasionally popping up to annoy you?

Hilarious yet scary how true to reality it really is :S