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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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"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.
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.
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.
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 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*
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.