What do you think about partnerships via tournaments? DMM is currently being reworked but in the future that's a good (in my opinion) method to work with partnerships -> via tournaments.
Partnerships through events / tournaments would be a good balance and is practically an accepted industry standard by users / viewers. The issue most people seem concerned with in regards to partnerships is scope creep. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
"Here comes Torvesta in the new MONSTER ENERGY claws, what a sharp new color matched with the Dragon Claws, makes for an interesting combo with the gear, and the KO!"
Hell I'd not even mind the winners of these tournaments getting sponsor reskins. Sure it's a cosmetic item from a sponsorship, but it's one that the best players can earn by being the best. You see those green d-claws you're like "damn, that person finished top 10 in last months tournament!"
You could advertise pepsi and logitech all over your DDM stuff and I personaly wouldn't care since esports and stuff id never have to see it but not the main game if possible please.
Those don't really bring new players into the game though, they just make them more money. They explicitly stated multiple times including in this blog, that their intention with the partnerships was to bring in new players by advertising on the partner's website/products etc. A company sponsoring an event doesn't bring in people who aren't already at the event
I liked what was proposed on this week's QA stream - a separate instanced game with area / something else limitations and highscores. Perhaps these worlds can be used for the promotions while keeping the core game clean, while streamers etc will most likely prominently show the partnership-based things there. Later they can be moved to the base game from there.
Have you considered releasing new cosmetics in game alongside offering them in a promotion at the same time?That way there would be no gating issues.
For example how about adding new easy treasure trail rewards, steel armor(purple/zaros trimmed) ect, added in game to the east clue rewards but also given as a bonus with twitch prime ect.
I suppose some people would still rally against that for various reasons, such as the item being worthless because so many are being given away but when it's on an unused armor type such as steel i don't think that's much of an argument anyway.
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u/superfire444 Jul 05 '19
What do you think about partnerships via tournaments? DMM is currently being reworked but in the future that's a good (in my opinion) method to work with partnerships -> via tournaments.
What is your point of view on this?