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Sonic Social Media Shenanigans (This totally just happened...)

Discussion in 'General Sonic Discussion' started by Ashura96, Jul 8, 2015.

  1. MykonosFan

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    Good #brand talk folks, I'm enjoying this synergy.

    SEGABits Swingin' Report Show had an episode where Barry and George interviewed Aaron, and his social media strategy was discussed, if you're curious :v:/>
     
  2. TimmiT

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    + - Click the image, Shinji.  
     
  3. RubyEclipse

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    :ruby:
     
  4. Atendega

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    Oh, you :v:
    You deserve some sort of award for complete and total mastery of public relations.
     
  5. Dude

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    Welp, the PR world is going meta:
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    https://twitter.com/DeusEx/status/629711408335339524
     
  6. JaxTH

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    Jack shit.
    Ruby, what have you done?
     
  7. GeneHF

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    And so, gaming PR begins to transform and be less about "HEY! CHECK OUT THIS THING!" and more self-aware of their branding
     
  8. Ashura96

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    Heeey, finally got around to updating the thread name

    :ruby:
     
  9. Nova

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    jesus fucking christ
    first rock band and now deus ex

    rubyyyyyyyyyyyyy
     
  10. I really do hope that a knuckles game gets made.

    But yeah this is amazing. I am kinda waiting for the inevitable social media shit storm though.
     
  11. RenyNoise

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    Shadow's introduction has destroyed any chances of that.
     
  12. Chimera

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    No Beats logo but uses everything else about the meme's format. Avoids cross promotion while still using something humorous and accurate to the series. On top of that its just a pointless good chuckle.

    GG Aaron. Well played.

    It feels like its transformed into that over time just out of necessity, since people are getting sick of the same dumb tactics getting thrown at them. Nevertheless, I'd like to believe Ruby's played a large part in this shift, with these tweet's self refferential nature being so shocking. Here we have SEGA, a company thats been known to live in its own little world for just about everything, getting its official twitter account to acknowledge the series' obscurities and poke fun at its quirks in clever ways. It almost legitamizes the company's competence (almost, at least the western branch), with them realizing where they stand in the market and not throwing out their history.

    That is, its probably what it looks like, even though in actuality SOA/E/J(???) freaked out over Boom dropping the bomb and let Ruby just do whatever the hell he wanted to save face :V
     
  13. GeneHF

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    I like to think the Western branches of these companies are pretty aware of what's going on, but it all comes down to that the Japanese main branch treats them like satellites and don't really take into account their feedback.
     
  14. TimmiT

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    This is likely the closest we're going to get to it being acknowledged. :v:
     
  15. RubyEclipse

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    http://I.imgur.com/XTDZLj7.jpg

    And so, the plan to make Big the Cat the new #2 character moves forward.

    http://blogs.sega.com/2015/08/12/the-sonic-showdown-begins/
     
  16. RenyNoise

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    That bracket was strategically made, I'm gonna be so pissed when all the Silver fanboys show out for Knuckles. God Damnt, you'll never be cool again.

    We all know it's gonna be fucking Shadow (Dumb) and Silver (Dumber).
     
  17. Jason

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    We need to make Cream fight a Chao. It would be a stalemate.
     
  18. Covarr

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    I feel like this would hold more weight if Jet wasn't on here.
     
  19. RenyNoise

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    I like Espio too. I don't wanna vote against him, terrible bracket.
     
  20. Dark Sonic

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    Not necessarily, this isn't 2008 anymore. Shadow and Silver are far less relevant then they were in the 2000s. Meanwhile Knuckles and Metal Sonic have been sneaking their way back into the mix since around 2010, as there was a while when Knuckles was taking a back seat to Amy.

    My prediction is that the final will be Big vs Knuckles, as Big is the troll card that even Ruby backs. I feel like Silver will beat Cream but will lose to Robotnik, and Shadow will beat Sticks but lose to either Metal Sonic or Blaze (that one is kind of a toss up).

    Also what makes the bracket terrible? I doubt the final would be drastically different if the order was mixed up. Even if Espio was on the other side of the bracket, at one point you would have to vote for one of them assuming both made it to the final.