Introducing Unknown Universe

[heatherw]

Hello Everyone,



This week we announce the Pre-Alpha launch of our virtual world Unknown Universe, This game is 5 years in the making and we are proud to announce its release. Unknown Universe has a lot to offer, from an awesome gaming experience, to its top of the line virtual world social networking. There is hunting, mining, land ownership, and player owned housing. With the land ownership, you can set taxes on the land for hunting and mining. You also share in the profits of the game. Unknown Universe is a FREE TO PLAY game, but it does have real money transactions involved within the game, but, it is not mandatory to a player's success.



Quote from Gamer Magazine

“Unknown Universe looks to be a mix of Secondlife and Entropia Universe. Unknown Universe will take it’s place in history and the folks that are involved on the ground floor of this game have a lot to gain as with EU and Secondlife.”





We here at Superstar Studio hope they are correct and this game turns out to be as big as we hope.



Like we said The game is Free To Play, but to the folks that want to get in early we now offer a Pre Order type of program.



Here is the list of Packages we currently offer.



1. $10 Package will include 1 weapon of your choice and the set of armor of your choice.

2. $20 Package will include 1 Apartment in one of our many apartment buildings and a Private storage unit in your apartment.

3. $30 Package will include both Package 1 and 2 plus a vehicle of your choice.

4. $50 Package will include a stand alone house in one of the pre order neighborhoods.

5. $60 Package will include Package 4 plus a vehicle of your choice.

6. Complete and custom land areas custom to your specs can be purchased, please contact us for info on this package.

7. Main world Land Areas will be auctioned off to the Highest Bidders, you will have to keep an eye on the forums for auctions.



Feel free to head over to our Site to keep up with the latest news and to Pre-order now!



Best Regards,



Heather Woody

Superstar Games LLC Staff

superstar-llc.com/

[VECTREXER]

More of a sales advertisement than a release notice.

I vote for this thread to be moved to "For Sale" section.

Or have it's pricing trimmed off.


Maybe it's time for a Commercial Sales section in the for these "text slicks" to be posted? These kinds of games are way different from the homebrew stuff.

[VectorX]

Eh, it's one of "those" kinds of posts that can go in either section: either modern day gaming or sales (another example is that there's a sub-board for posting pictures of peoples' gaming collection, yet there's one of those in the Vectrex forums too, but I'm leaving the latter where it is).

Mar 10, 2014 14:36:17 GMT -5 VECTREXER said:

Maybe it's time for a Commercial Sales section in the for these "text slicks" to be posted?

Interesting idea, but we don't get many of these. I would be afraid that would attract either boderline spammers or make this look like one of those "promote your stuff"-type of Proboards forums, which this one isn't.

[heatherw]

I am sorry if it seems spammy but we are trying to get the word out about this coming out this next week, we are hoping to generate traffic to get people looking about what we will have to offer when the game is released.

[VectorX]

I understand what you're doing here and hope things work out with your game. You just have to take our position on it as well as just a general (although I'll admit it's quite slanted towards vector) gaming board to have the occasional person come in here to promote a game and either never posts again (as is sometimes the case) or they're just here to post about their games in particular and that's it.

[akator]

It's marketing, basically a press release. It isn't vector, Vectrex, or even classic gaming related. To me, this is spam. Spam doesn't have to be from a bot, it can be from paid shills as well. I vote it and whomever posted it off the island

[VectorX]

Mar 10, 2014 17:01:25 GMT -5 akator said:

It isn't vector, Vectrex, or even classic gaming related.

This isn't a classic gaming thread though, it's for modern games. But yes, it's still pretty much an ad, and currently there are no stated rules saying that anyone can't post them, although that might change.

[heatherw]

I am certainly not here to step on toes, only to do what i have set out to do. I have been going to several sites now promoting this in hopes to help not only our company but those here....because looking at any links in the forums is traffic for you as well, is it not?

[VECTREXER]

Please understand I welcome new gaming related material. I might not have said anything if more than half the character count, or if 3/4 of the points made in your post were about the details of the game rather than buy-this, pay-that, or auction-that. More song and dance with the ticket price please.

Remember, you're trying to create buzz for a new game and its environment. The elephant in your marketing should not be the prices at this point.

It is as if you made a new car commercial, about an unknown car, while trying to ride the coattails of another brand. Doing so flashing a picture of a generic looking car for 5 seconds with some subtext about it "rides like a Corolla. Immediately followed by a 20 seconds of pricing information. Then 5 seconds displaying a request to pre-order this unfinished/unreleased car now. You want to create buzz? Then leave the pricing and ordering for post-release time frames, or at least minimize it.

I also welcome general marketing, as well as search engine optimization (SEO), by seeding sites with gaming experience data in a press release style. Also nice if the activities result in cross-awareness benefit for classic and/or vector related topics with non-vector related new gaming material. But do so with an eye towards game play and gamer experience. Otherwise you'll end up with a message thread that includes undesirable topics and phrases poisoning/diffusing the marketing efforts.

Even after the gaffs, I still suggested to move the thread rather than kill off the posting.

[VectorX]

Mar 11, 2014 6:06:54 GMT -5 VECTREXER said:

Please understand I welcome new gaming related material.

Same here (nothing wrong with new games), hence why I'm not locking this or anything. But like my other post says, I will see about restricting posts like these in the future.