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New Hearthstone TV Commercials - December 2016
A couple of new Hearthstone commercials are going to be on TV and Blizzard has uploaded them to YouTube. What do you think? Will this get people interested in playing?
They should have taken inside the entire ad, not showing to anyone.
So Blizzard does not want new players? I'm confused...
Just plain embarrassing...
Commercial is 0/10
Why does blizzard think this will attract people?
You know an advert is bad when even Totalbiscuit makes the effort to post a youtube comment on it.
Please Blizzard, Don't make new players think hearthstone is a joke of a game , because its not.
Well... I'm not sure if it isn't, but the ad is certainly terrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJJjuYZyCnQ
Above is Japanese Hearthstone TV commercial. Watch it, then compare it to this.
The Japanese one, you don't even need to know Japanese language to understand the message the ad is trying to convey. While somewhat over-the-top like many other Japanese commercials, it's funny, catchy, impactful and drives the point home. Also it doesn't contain excessive gameplay and has no in-jokes or Warcraft reference, which is good for the newcomers to this brand.
And this? The message is unclear,the whole idea isn't that funny or interesting to begin with, and makes a mockery out of gamers by portraying them as weirdos. Assuming this is for the US, isn't the image of gamers bad enough in that region? (I'm not from there, so I may be wrong) Nevertheless, this is some horrid shit. The whole thing feels disconnected from the game it tries to promote and it makes a bad image of the game and its players.
You could replace the American version with the Japanese version..air it in America without changing anything including the language..and it would outperform that steaming pile of youtube streamer quality shit.
I rarely post..but this just makes me angry. It's so bad that it makes hearthstone players look like assholes..let alone failing miserably at attracting new customers.
I've never complained about a single change, card, nerf..but that ad campaign is so bad it makes you feel awkward when you watch it in a room of people and someone says, "oh, hey, that's that game you play, right?"
Please reconsider this horseshit Blizz. I'd appreciate not seeing a huge middle finger as a thank you to my hundreds of dollars I've put into this game.
The Japanese add is amazing! Feels bad to even compare it to whatever this is above.
LOL this ad is amazing XD
Blizzard needs to fire the Marketing Team that created these adds.
Petition for swapping this ads with 30 secs of Ben Brode Laugh
These are two of the worse ads I've ever seen for anything. As an avid player, they actually make me NOT want to be associated with the game. That's how awful they are.
Turns out the hearthstone commercial is Preeeeety bad!
Holy shit these are the worst ads I've seen in a long time... Maybe among the worst ones EVER.
And such awful spots are made by Blizzard?`Can't believe it, anything else they do is pretty much top notch or at least decent and not pathetic stuff like this here...
Blizzard, you still have time to cancel the airing of this commercial.
I don't think I've seen a worse ad than this...