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Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs (kotaku.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (6 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I think we're seeing the marketing right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Rich People's ego. He thinks his "name" is enough that he doesn't have to market.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

95% of the budget went to paying Will Smith.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The post-apocalyptic zombie shooter allegedly had more than 300 developers on it and a budget of nearly 1 billion yuan (around $140 million)

The word "allegedly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. There is no way on this Earth that a mess like that cost $140 million to develop, unless somebody pocketed $130m of that and then just outsourced the rest to a tinpot Z tier studio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Will and Jada are scientologists so that's exactly what happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

He wishes he got that from it, and looks like he was barely involved other than a quick poorly made advert and use of his face. It's not even his voice in game.

The whole thing looks like it was thrown together in Unity by a dozen people from mostly stock assets. If that figure is anywhere near accurate then Tencent got scammed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

"We can save millions in advertising, just get your friend Will to post about it, it will be great."