Gcousin....

That name rings a bell

Unfortunately for us Europeans we have to wait until the Americans wake up to hear the news...

and there's me thinking that Morrowind was overrated when compared to daggerfall.. what does that make Oblivion? lol, I still enjoyed all of them, yet to play Fallout 3.

Not being released in UK = fail.

No problem though, i'll still be enjoying SFIV.

[QUOTE="rpg9000owner"]

my faded memory of what i read on the first page told me that, what you actually said was that you thought it would of sold just as well .. the same amount .. suggesting the brand name didn't help it sell more than it could of sold without the Halo tag. Which i guess is quite similiar to what I claimed you said, that's the implication that I gathered anyway.

If i'm wrong then tell me what you really meant, then i'll stand corrected. If this is just more semantics then I'll conclude that this is just yet another frivolous SW disscussion.

Stevo_the_gamer

I stand by this because of the advertising, the boxart, everything would be the same except the title of the game itself.

Edit: Afterall, I was only answering the TCs question -- since he offers no ellaboration on what he means, for I know, he could be referring to the title of the game itself only.

That's curious, maybe you're deliberately being obscure just to wrong foot people and score cheap points, I think the general message of the thread is quite obvious, although it's vague, it's likely that he means the brand, and you probably knew that, or maybe i'm just being unfair, but this is system wars, how could it not be a question about the Halo brand? But fair enough, with a unecessary clinical and semantical approach, i can see your point.

[QUOTE="rpg9000owner"]

[QUOTE="FloWeN-UK"]

Nope not really. What I say is perfectly understandable. HALO started out on the XBOX therefore thats where the HALO fanbase is. Further more PC gamers are alot smarter than to buy a game off brand name alone.

FloWeN-UK

[QUOTE="rpg9000owner"]

You're splitting hairs, yes his semantics were flawed, but generally the message is that the Halo brand helps games sell.. i'm pretty sure Halo 2 vista would of sold pretty worse without the halo name, but ofc that's aside from the point.

You said originally in this thread that the Halo brand didn't help, with the gravitas the Halo brand holds in the Xbox community, i find that hard to beleive.

Stevo_the_gamer

Where did I say that?

If i'm wrong then tell me what you really meant, then i'll stand corrected. If this is just more semantics then I'll conclude that this is just yet another frivolous SW disscussion.

[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"]

I thought it sold because it had Halo in the name: meaning, anything with Halo in the name sells big? Having second thoughts?

FloWeN-UK

Nope not really. What I say is perfectly understandable. HALO started out on the XBOX therefore thats where the HALO fanbase is. Further more PC gamers are alot smarter than to buy a game off brand name alone.

[QUOTE="rpg9000owner"]

A 3 year old game, competeting with the likes of Stalker, Crisis, Bioshock, Call of Duty 4 and The Orange Box, with a gold membership required to access many features and a vista exclusive title?

Obviously not very well .. but of course, for proof that a brand helps sell a game it must overcome all those shortcomings right? lol, branding in the games industry is a tried and true method, brand recognition and harnessing a brands fanbase are two benefits of this strategy, and it worked for Halo Wars.

Stevo_the_gamer

But, I thought anything with Halo in the name sells?

You said originally in this thread that the Halo brand didn't help, with the gravitas the Halo brand holds in the Xbox community, i find that hard to beleive.

[QUOTE="FloWeN-UK"]

No it sold because it's got the HALO nameStevo_the_gamer

Obviously not very well .. but of course, for proof that a brand helps sell a game it must overcome all those shortcomings right? lol, branding in the games industry is a tried and true method, brand recognition and harnessing a brands fanbase are two benefits of this strategy, and it worked for Halo Wars.