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New WOW Commercial

fgetcefgetce Member Posts: 28

Just saw a new commercial for World of Warcraft.

Had the two guys from Office Space reprising their roles from that movie.

 

Say what the hell you want about WOW, but they can afford to have those two actors redoing their roles from that film proves one thing!  Blizzards is making a fuck load of money and right now they are strutting arouind with their balls hanging out just daring other companies to knock them of their perch.

Those two actors are not chumps and probably made about 1 million each or more.  Was pretty funny commercial.  Of course I don't play WOW and will never play it.  Just had to mention it

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  • ronan32ronan32 Member Posts: 1,418
    Yes blizzard are making a shit load of money off of wow but they are not putting it back into their game...they must of spent a miserly amount of their profit on the burning crusade...basically they are out to make money and to spend as little as possible on their product.
  • I thought it was a direct TV commercial at first.


  • TamalanTamalan Member Posts: 1,117

    "Those two actors are not chumps and probably made about 1 million each or more."

    I sincerely doubt they got paid the amount you think they did, it probably cost them more to pay the copyright owners of Office Space to borrow the IP than the actors salaries.

    If it was Tom Cruise or Arnie maybe, but a pair of mainly TV actors from a low budget cult movie?

    No.

    The whole advert probably cost around $500,000 in its entirety.

  • ArconaArcona Member UncommonPosts: 1,182
    People diss Warhammer Online because EA will distribute the boxes.

    Vivendi is eating a huge chunk of WoW money without giving anything back.

    I bet EA will only get money for distributing the boxes and nothing else.

  • Originally posted by Arcona
    People diss Warhammer Online because EA will distribute the boxes.

    Vivendi is eating a huge chunk of WoW money without giving anything back.

    I bet EA will only get money for distributing the boxes and nothing else.

    Mythic is an entirely owned subsidiary of EA just liike Blizzard is owned by Vivendi.  But Mythic did say they got a very satisfactory deal out of EA ( and did not actually need to make the deal) so I bet they have alot more leeway than Blizzard did.  Don't know what kind of slack Vivendi gives Blzizard now, but I know they had to have taken a big chunk from Blizz since they were no doing so well in the recent past.


  • ProProductProProduct Member Posts: 5



    Originally posted by fgetce

    Just saw a new commercial for World of Warcraft.
    Had the two guys from Office Space reprising their roles from that movie.
     
    Say what the hell you want about WOW, but they can afford to have those two actors redoing their roles from that film proves one thing!  Blizzards is making a fuck load of money and right now they are strutting arouind with their balls hanging out just daring other companies to knock them of their perch.
    Those two actors are not chumps and probably made about 1 million each or more.  Was pretty funny commercial.  Of course I don't play WOW and will never play it.  Just had to mention it



    Yeah, I doubt they made anywhere close to 1 million each. If you watch as much tv as I do you'll notice Ron Livingston (aka Peter Gibbons) doing a couple comercials right now. He probably needs the cash. I have seen the movie Office Space probably 30+ times so I am somewhat familar with it. I am almost positive all they did was put WoW in place of Tetris on his monitor. That wouldn't require hiring those actors at all. I think.

    I might not be 100% correct, but I'm 100% sure your incorrect.

    Just my 2 cents.

  • mattadams007mattadams007 Member Posts: 70

    Yea, I saw it well, pretty funny I thought, but I gotta ask you guys, is have you seen the WOW inspired episode from South Park Oh man LOL::::18:: that pretty much put me into buying WOW off ebgames.com so I guess I'm be a newb to WOW within the next couple of days. *Huzzah*

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  • DrewdubskyDrewdubsky Member Posts: 5
    I haven't seen the commercial yet so I'll have to keep an eye out for it.  It sounds funny.  I did see the South Park episode that was about WoW.  I lmao!  WoW is fun, so welcome!


  • kdempsenatorkdempsenator Member Posts: 5
    I just saw this commercial last night, it was hilarious!  They just took that clip from the movie and put WoW on the computer, they didn't redo the scene for this commercial.  Either way, I'm sure the actors and producers from Office Space got a decent cut from using this scene.


  • Parsifal57Parsifal57 Member Posts: 267

    Heh, the commerical just about sums up Blizzard nowadays, i.e. unable to think up anything original so they just take something old, slap some paint on it and claim its the next big thing.

    Any originality and talent Blizzard has, has long since left the building as should the marketing team that delivered this pointless commercial.
  • aberkeleyaberkeley Member Posts: 5
    Saw it last night and thought it was great!  Too funny!  Luv it!



  • Originally posted by Parsifal57

    Heh, the commerical just about sums up Blizzard nowadays, i.e. unable to think up anything original so they just take something old, slap some paint on it and claim its the next big thing.

    Any originality and talent Blizzard has, has long since left the building as should the marketing team that delivered this pointless commercial.


    Sadly this is what I thought too, they just replace Tetris with WoW.  Office space is great movie, but um, I can just watch that its on comemdy central every other day.  Even the DirectTV commericials that do the same thing actually have some sort of point with breaking the glass curtain idea.




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