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wtf I never heard of this game before. How come a game that cost ~$140 million had virtually no marketing except for Will Smith posting it on his youtube channel?
Rich People's ego. He thinks his "name" is enough that he doesn't have to market.
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I genuinely have no interest in anything he does any more. Not actively boycotting his projects or anything, more complete disinterest. And I'm not even saying all art has to be viewed through the lens of the artist. But there are people that have such memorable or distinct performances that afterwards they have trouble getting other roles... This is like that, but cranked up to 11.
And I know he's a meme and we joke about it... but because of his weird hangups he chose to use violence on another person on a world stage, with cameras on him. By his own actions he made it impossible for me to lose myself in any character he plays, instead I'll only think about The Slap.
I genuinely have no interest in anything he does any more
This was me when he started trying to shoehorn his kid into the spotlight with those cringe interviews and that really awful movie about not being scared of aliens or whatever. I care about it so little that I can't remember the name of the movie and have zero interest in looking it up.
This comment about not caring about Will Smith is the maximum effort I'm willing to put into anything related to him.
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It's like Goldeneye except the only weapon setting is "Slappers only"
(Too easy, I know)
Take your eyes of my wife's screen!
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I would've loved a proper game using his I am Legend fame, but it seems like even publishers didn't care about it.
I am legend really loses something when mistitled
Lmfao the trailer doesn't even include any dialogue from Will Smith's character?! Imagine paying (I assume) millions of dollars to get an A-list Hollywood celebrity in your game and you don't even show them in your trailer!
I watched a dunkey video for it, i dont think there is any dialogue from will smiths character. Like they didnt bother to record it. There was one or two instances where he spoke, and it wasn't will smith.
What would be cringingly terrible, but entirely possible, is if Will DID record lines for his character, but content pipeline faults/laziness or programming errors mean it doesn’t play ingame.
I even feel like that same circumstance has happened before…
Wait, so they just licensed Will Smith's likeness?
They couldn't have just done a character that looks sort of like Will Smith?
He does sort of look like Will Smith.
He looks like a Chinese Will Smith.
That's what I thought it happened when I saw the dunkey video.
I’d be careful to read too much into this. If they wanted it to be successful, it would have been Raid: Shadow Legends or Genshin Impact level promoted, especially with $140M sunk in dev.
This seems like they had no confidence in the finished product so they didn’t even bother to market it, just shat it out to app stores probably to meet contractual obligations and it will be gone soon.
Either that or there is some behind the scenes nonsense happening preventing it from being marketed. Think something like Will Smith having it in his contract that it has to release and giving him 25% of sales, for example.
But for something to cost that much and bomb that hard, it’s essentially impossible without them basically cutting their losses before launch and expecting it to fail. It’s the mobile game equivalent of the “lowest grossing movie”, basically something that was only released because it has to be, and not a true reflection of product quality. Like I’m sure it sucks, but is it THAT much worse than 99% of mobile trash? Probably not.
Any chance a lot of the money got funneled somewhere else and the actual game had some tiny budget?
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Looks like the church of scientology will need to find another cash cow.
Hollywood has plenty of scientologists, it's wild.
Kinda but numbers are way down, scientology is dying at the moment
Also never heard of this game before.
The top user review on steam made it sound like awful pay to win gacha garbage though, so I'll just move on.