Marvel Puzzle Quest today released a new Live-Action video featuring some familiar friends (or roommates?) engaged in some puzzle battle fun! This video is in correlation with a 30 second commercial that you may come across in the future but the extended cut of the commercial should put some smiles on some faces.
I liked the commercial.. Now I wish I could actually Battle people I know instead of just fighting against the computer. Could we get a “VS” or practice mode implemented into the game so I can play live against other humans? Pretty Please?!? I wont ask for anything else..for at least a week!
Someone should create an honest commercial for this game showing a 30-something yr old guy playing MPQ every spare second of his day while neglecting his wife, children, chores, work, social events, etc. He could shout things at the game like “What!? I just won a match for 45 pts then lost 100!” Then a narrator says “Don’t worry about the time sink and frustrations, you can always pay buckets of money to win too!” Then a disclaimer at the bottom: “Even after paying buckets of money, you’ll still play every spare second of the day”.
If you think programmers and testers have anything to do with producing commercials then you have a very strange idea of how software development works, or business in general.
Advertising the game to get new players just makes logical business sense. Especially in mobile games, people get burned out or disinterested and stop playing. You always need to be enticing and bringing on new players.