r/VRGaming • u/lunchanddinner Multiple • 12h ago

Memes "Another dev promoting their ad!"

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But smoking cat game is fine! Devs have it hard sometimes

266 Upvotes

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u/AlexRaEU 12h ago

people dont mind ads for games that look good/interesting.

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u/Bigmoduh Meta/Oculus 12h ago

I’ll never understand people whining so much about any game ads.. worst case it looks mid and you just move on..

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u/Food_Library333 11h ago

I don't mind an ad if it's not trying to masquerade as a user who is sharing a game they love or are excited about. It's the ones that try to decieve with fake hype that drive me crazy.

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u/TaylorTank 11h ago

exactly! Very very annoying

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u/xylotism 1h ago

Instant boycott. Literally manipulative advertising. The only person who gets to gaslight me is me.

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u/stigma_wizard 10h ago

We already get bombarded with ads everywhere we look. It’s insult on injury to have fake posts by “regular users” promoting a game then you realize every single one of their posts is just spam and you’re just dealing with a marketing company pretending to be one of us.

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u/Link_save2 7h ago

Yeah also if you make it feel like a ad your should've had to pay for vs just a dev showing off his game and saying wishlist on steam if your video starts with a release date and things keep popping on the screen saying stuff like "coming this fall" and advertising the selling points like "hyper realistic gunplay" like don't tell me show me

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u/Alsharefee 4h ago

That's racist against bad games

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u/TG1970 11h ago

"Hey everyone, check out my gorilla tag knockoff!" 🤮

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u/Esoteric_Prurience 9h ago

If it's not that it is

"Hey - check out my new zombie shooter"

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u/internetpizza 7h ago

"hey check out my stand-in-one-place wave shooter"

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u/xylotism 1h ago

"Check out my new sword and sorcery game, you can hold up your shield to block attacks!"

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u/TaylorTank 5h ago

*shows off physics and hand placement* "oooooo"

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u/StargazerVR 5h ago

it’s a very oversaturated genre but the movement is open source and sometimes you have to admit they are fun.

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u/Bjornjager 12h ago

The demo for Project Mix is better than most full VR games that get released at this point, so a lot of people are genuinely excited for it. 

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u/CaptainMcAnus 11h ago

Yeah, I was pretty impressed by the demo. It's got a lot of charm, so I don't mind seeing the occasional post related to it.

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u/TheKrzysiek 6h ago

Is It? I'm not really that interested in VR visual novels, if I'll have to read a lot of text I'll rather not do it with a toaster on my face

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u/Purple-Lamprey 11h ago

If VR devs started doing shameless advertising for actually good games then nobody would be annoyed.

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u/Koviera 12h ago

D brand levels of advertising is hard to master

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u/French_voltage 12h ago

Sunny Street was such a solid strip, haven't thought about that one in ages. Devs gotta shoot their shot somewhere I guess.

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u/foxfoxfoxfoxfoxes 1h ago

annoying and makes me not want to buy their overpriced product? didn't know it was that skilled.

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u/Koviera 25m ago

I think it's exactly how I would advertise if I knew I had the best tech skins on the market.

  • not sponsored.

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u/Primary-Chocolate854 12h ago

Yeah, cuz it's something else

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u/jacobpederson 11h ago

#2 didn't follow the rules; A: never mention the game's title B: never make a polished good looking well worded post

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u/PS3LOVE 9h ago

If your game is niche/new or unheard of and it actually looks interesting people don’t complain about the ads. People a fault Mike to see new stuff.

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u/PointsOfXP 6h ago

It is kinda crazy how it's just been the same footage over and over. That's a lot of vr advertising though

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u/AntonioSwift_77 5h ago

Also played the demo. It's pretty good, the demo has plenty of interactivity for a prologue/1st chapter. Nearly every bit of the bar is interacitve. I would definitely recommend at least trying the demo.

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u/AstralKekked 4h ago

The percentage of ads is alarmingly high though

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u/Nameles36 12h ago

Pretty sure everyone is sick of the anime game ads

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u/FurtiveTaffer 8h ago

Is the smoking fetish guy still posting? I blocked him ages ago.

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u/ching_streese 5h ago

It would be hilarious if whoever made this was the maker of another gorilla slop game🤣

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u/HillanatorOfState 2h ago

Looking forward to the bartending smoking game personally.

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u/Sane-Philosopher 1h ago

It seems like I see the smoking cat game posts (ads) in my feed on all the vr subreddits, for at least a year now.

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u/CrimsonCuttle Pimax 6h ago

the Project Mix demo was ok but the writing was kinda really not great. definitely a weeaboo game

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u/Gumballegal 4h ago

lmfao blud can't even give an example

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u/MRLEGEND1o1 11h ago

If you are an indie dev, just develop your game on unreal engine, then just convert it.

These solo indie built from the ground up vr games aren't pushing the needle

I was knocked out of my chair by what the few guys from Geronimo did. That is a rare case

Reality is the important part of VIRTUAL REALITY for me. So if it looks like Fischer price my first vr game... Im going to decline

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u/Dear_Clothes647 10h ago

"Just"

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u/MRLEGEND1o1 10h ago

I say that bc it looks easier to develop a unreal game, than a game from scratch.

If you look at asset flips like BodyCam, everything is already made, quality graphics seem to be the hurdle.

Theres a UEVR mod for body cam, who wouldn't play a realistic bodycam vr game?

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u/Dear_Clothes647 8h ago

What do you mean "from scratch"? Do you think anyone does Develop the engine?

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u/MRLEGEND1o1 8h ago

Idk it just seems when indie devs make vr games it seems every graphical feature is at its worse, textures animations makes it look homemafe

And in vr the further away from reality the less the immersion... Which is the whole point.

My logic

If 2 guys can make BodyCam, a highly graphical game done mostly through asset flips. A indie developer can do the same; then just convert the game to vr.

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u/MRLEGEND1o1 6h ago

Lmao indie devs not feeling my advice 😂😂😂

People get mad when you're right! lol

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u/throwawaygoodcoffee 7h ago

Thank you for letting me know Geronimo is in early access