I’ve already been barred from every establishment I used to frequent because I will not shut up talking about the game to anyone who makes the poor decision to engage with me in small talk. They had no idea how long this queue/wait could truly feel
I’ve yet to get them any sales but I’m trying dammit!
Not every possible market… It’s a staple of the 80’s but I can’t see why it shouldn’t or couldn’t happen now.
Saturday Morning Cartoons with an action figure line tie-in.
No Babies Sky.
You gotta make it babies. When you’ve explored every other avenue, that’s when you pivot to the baby-verse. Muppet Babies. Dino Babies. Baby Babies. You name it, they’ve gone baby.
The ad tag is pretty useful for finding these. I’m surprised more of the “main” NMS content creators haven’t put something out yet. Looks like a long running campaign?
Edit: A few more from misc sources:
Never thought I’d see the day when HG would sponser Vtubers to play NMS
Completely different side tangent, but I got really deep into investigating HG socials yesterday, since one of the NMS Insta accounts I could’ve sworn was official (still has AssistantNMS tracking it, and has Tim Woodley following it), posted the trailer for Beacons yesterday, which is quite odd.
I found a bunch of unused HG socials, including a very recent HG instagram page, threads page, and their old Twitch channel from the launch stream again. The description of that last one’s kinda sad, since it implies theyd’ve wanted to explore their universe with the community had launch gone down better:
(Thread page in their bio)
Edit 2: some bigger creators are posting now, interesting that these showed up when I searched for “No Man’s Sky 6.0 Update” for any echoes style leaks
No Man’s Sky is nearly ten years old, and it’s been available on all major platorms for years. It’s been on sale (I mean cheap) on most of those platforms many times. Just about everybody who’s ever going to own No Man’s Sky has already bought it. So why fund a major promotion campaign?
The only thing such a strategy could achieve is to get existing owners playing again. But why? Why would Hello Games spend money to get more people playing a game they already own?
The only possible benefits I can think of are that it builds up the community, and it stimulates interest in Hello Games.
The question then becomes “Why would Hello Games want to build as large a community of people as they can, from people who are interested in Hello Games’ activities?”
And I can only think of one possible answer to that question.
