Is this EA's new retarded advertising strategy?

#1 Posted by sofakingcool (345 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I'm looking at an IMDB page with a big EA logo and some helicopter but no indication what so ever as to which game is being advertised.... is this EA's new strategy?

#2 Posted by Barrock (3187 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

You really shouldn't pirate movies.

#3 Posted by triple07 (1056 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Barrock: Haha at first I thought you were crazy and thought IMDB was a pirate site and then I saw it. Funny

#4 Posted by Dany (7877 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

The Run?

#5 Posted by fazzle (268 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Plus I'm sure if you would have scrolled up to the top of the page you would have seen a banner for The Run

#6 Posted by Xolare (1210 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

The Super 8 Blu Ray rip was the funniest thing in that picture.

#7 Posted by BraveToaster (12588 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

A lot of companies do that, what's the problem?

#8 Posted by Ghost_Cat (1022 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Super 8 deserves your money. Don't rip it.

#9 Edited by MrKlorox (11082 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

You're at 1280 width... what do you expect?

@triple07 said:

@Barrock said:

You really shouldn't pirate movies.

Haha at first I thought you were crazy and thought IMDB was a pirate site and then I saw it. Funny

Also this. You're not a very savvy PC user, OP. Just stop.

#10 Edited by DougQuaid (1229 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

You're also downloading Ice Road Truckers? REALLY?! Ice Road Truckers? You are wasting your bandwidth downloading episodes of fucking Ice Road Truckers?

#11 Posted by Willin (1227 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

That IceFilms.info website you got up there looks like it fell out of 1999.

#12 Posted by MrKlorox (11082 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@DougQuaid said:

You're also downloading Ice Road Truckers? REALLY?! Ice Road Truckers? You are wasting your bandwidth downloading episodes of fucking Ice Road Truckers?

I was wrong. THAT is indeed more hilarious. Also pretty funny that Dennis Quaid's illegitimate brother here either recognized the acronym or took the episode title as a clue and pieced it together. I would be saddened if it was just a Google job.

BTW, this chick gave me the best Goog-job the other night. That's what she called it, so it's totally not racist.

#13 Posted by iam3green (14380 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

pretty weird stuff. there is probably another banner somewhere with the game.

#14 Posted by CL60 (16906 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@DougQuaid said:

You're also downloading Ice Road Truckers? REALLY?! Ice Road Truckers? You are wasting your bandwidth downloading episodes of fucking Ice Road Truckers?

Not everybody has a bandwidth limit. I for example do not.

#15 Posted by RockinKemosabe (618 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Why were you on the IMDB page for The Help in the first place?

#16 Posted by Commisar123 (1760 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I agree that the colors look like The Run, also pirating things is bad

#17 Posted by MordeaniisChaos (5731 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Ghost_Cat said:

Super 8 deserves your money. Don't rip it.

#18 Posted by Marz (5469 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Watch out now, FBI knocking on your door for DMCA violations.

#19 Posted by CaptainTightPants (2777 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Haha Goddamnit I love where this thread has gone.

#20 Posted by DougQuaid (1229 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@MrKlorox said:

@DougQuaid said:
You're also downloading Ice Road Truckers? REALLY?! Ice Road Truckers? You are wasting your bandwidth downloading episodes of fucking Ice Road Truckers?
I was wrong. THAT is indeed more hilarious. Also pretty funny that Dennis Quaid's illegitimate brother here either recognized the acronym or took the episode title as a clue and pieced it together. I would be saddened if it was just a Google job. BTW, this chick gave me the best Goog-job the other night. That's what she called it, so it's totally not racist.

I'm not going to deny it, I do watch a little Pawn Stars every now and then. It's not that bad for a poor-man's Antique's Roadshow. Anyway, they constantly show ads for that Ice Road Truckers show, which is apparently not even about white trash meth addicts trying to make a year's wages in a few weeks from driving semi trucks over frozen bodies of water anymore! It's now about white trash meth addicts trying to make a year's wages in a few weeks by driving semi trucks through the mountains of South America or some shit.

#21 Posted by MrKlorox (11082 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Actually, yes. This thread with a screenshot of an unnamed EA title and IMDB movie at the 'focus' and using the periphery movie piracy screen capture as a ploy to spread awareness of NFS The Run and The Help and reduce sales for the Super 8 bluray. This whole thing is post-viral marketing at its finest.

#22 Posted by Clinkz (1118 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Ghost_Cat said:

Super 8 deserves your money. Don't rip it.

It does? I saw Super 8 in theaters and it totally bored the crap out of me. I expected it to be "totally mint!" but instead it was a violent E.T. film and nothing more.

#23 Posted by sofakingcool (345 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Super 8 was terrible, There was no banner at the top of the screen... now what game is it not that it matters at this point.

#24 Posted by benpicko (1507 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

You didn't even torrent the movies? You just went to some site and direct downloaded it?

#25 Posted by Dany (7877 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@MrKlorox said:

Actually, yes. This thread with a screenshot of an unnamed EA title and IMDB movie at the 'focus' and using the periphery movie piracy screen capture as a ploy to spread awareness of NFS The Run and The Help and reduce sales for the Super 8 bluray. This whole thing is post-viral marketing at its finest.

I love Emma Stone, I need to see her in some movies...

OH SHIT

#26 Posted by MikkaQ (9716 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@CL60 said:

@DougQuaid said:
You're also downloading Ice Road Truckers? REALLY?! Ice Road Truckers? You are wasting your bandwidth downloading episodes of fucking Ice Road Truckers?
Not everybody has a bandwidth limit. I for example do not.

Neither do I and I still consider it a waste of bandwidth. You've slightly slowed down your neighbors for Ice Road Truckers. Shaaaame.

#27 Edited by Three0neFive (2152 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Complain about ad layout, use resolution from 1998.

This is twenty-fucking-eleven. Come on.

#28 Posted by sofakingcool (345 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

what is everyone yammering about? my reso is 1366 by 768, its a lap top ppl cut me a break and I wouldn't have to download IRT if Comcast would put it on demand like they did with the last 10 episodes.

#29 Posted by kalmis (1511 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Someone who is into videogames sees videogame related add. How odd.

#30 Posted by Andorski (4148 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Downloading movies/bad TV shows AND Ad-Block? So basically no one deserves to earn money from you...

#31 Posted by SomeDeliCook (1675 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Barrock said:

You really shouldn't pirate movies.

If I could rep

#32 Posted by mac_n_nina (272 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

damn bro judging by the rotten tomatoes tab you were probably on a pirating spree

aww shit nukka

#33 Posted by VisariLoyalist (2988 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Barrock said:

You really shouldn't pirate movies.

ha...

#34 Posted by BabyChooChoo (3579 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

ewww avi? C'mon people, we're better than that.

#35 Posted by Oginam (331 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Given the totality of that screenshot, the most ironic thing is actually the first tab.

#36 Edited by BRNK (277 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

He's into redheads. Jessica Chastain is the only visited cast member.

(Also, I love this thread.)

#37 Edited by sofakingcool (345 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Andorski: I pay giant bomb two years in a row and I pay my cable bill

#38 Posted by sofakingcool (345 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Oginam: That I am a medical student?

#39 Posted by TentPole (1858 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Ghost_Cat said:

Super 8 deserves your money. Don't rip it.

#40 Edited by Milkman (13999 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

You know, I bet J.J. Abrams worked really hard on Super 8.

#41 Posted by Buscemi (1106 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@CL60 said:

@DougQuaid said:
You're also downloading Ice Road Truckers? REALLY?! Ice Road Truckers? You are wasting your bandwidth downloading episodes of fucking Ice Road Truckers?
Not everybody has a bandwidth limit. I for example do not.

I only thought bandwidth limits existed on mobile phones and stuff.

#42 Posted by ShaggE (4444 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

The only way this could be better is if you were downloading Sister Act 2 in 50MB parts from YouTube.

#43 Posted by CrimsonNoir (380 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I enjoyed Super 8, too bad OP didn't. He should ask for his money back...

#44 Posted by Vexxan (4552 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

For the love of god where's your AdBlock?!

#45 Posted by MideonNViscera (1788 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

OP you never should have admitted to pirating. The people shitting on you for it never will.

#46 Posted by Mr_Skeleton (4936 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I am pretty sure that if your screen was wider you would have seen more of the add...

#47 Posted by ShaggE (4444 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@MideonNViscera said:

OP you never should have admitted to pirating. The people shitting on you for it never will.

I don't think most of us are really shitting on him, just ribbing. Of course, I can't speak for anyone else, but that's the vibe I'm getting.

#48 Posted by MooseyMcMan (8559 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I always find it hilarious when people don't think to hide their nefarious deeds. Yes, nefarious.

#49 Posted by N7 (3531 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Being a pirate is not cool. There are a lot of people who has families that depend on the money they make from their films. If you can't support them, then don't watch their movies.

Nah man just shittin'. You should try Once Upon A Time In America. Shit was so tango I thought my nipples were gonna burst.

#50 Posted by Ezakael (456 posts) - 1 year, 1 month ago

@Buscemi said:

@CL60 said:
@DougQuaid said:
You're also downloading Ice Road Truckers? REALLY?! Ice Road Truckers? You are wasting your bandwidth downloading episodes of fucking Ice Road Truckers?
Not everybody has a bandwidth limit. I for example do not.
I only thought bandwidth limits existed on mobile phones and stuff.

We have a 50 Gig limit on our internet. Needless to say we use it up in the first week or two of the month. Canadian ISPS are greedy assholes.

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