Comments on: A Tale of Two Boxes

By: Krupo

Krupo — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:11:18 +0000

Missed this post when it first came out – absolutely hilarious.

By: Traffic Analysis January to July 2010

Traffic Analysis January to July 2010 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:00:50 +0000

[...] only content page that beats my Civ 5 post in was a stupid throwaway post comparing box art for Settlers 7. That got linked everywhere, and made Reddit the number one referring site for the blog. After the [...]

By: Gassy

Gassy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:02:11 +0000

@Cautiously Pessimistic
The money is falling into his hands from the player.

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:41:19 +0000

Just about everybody who prefers the American box art has, by their own comments, implicitly admitted that they’ve never played a Settlers game.

@Bowser: As an American, for me it’s less telling Ubisoft what to do, more being offended by how low Ubisoft’s opinion of me is.

As though somehow the generically gritty bottom choice is automatically what I’d go for.

By: Bowser

Bowser — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:36:47 +0000

I think Ubisoft’s money says they don’t care what you all think because they obviously know how to sell games. Why would the rich take financial advice from the poor to hand over their money to the rich like suckers?

By: The Sunday Papers | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

The Sunday Papers | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:14:44 +0000

[...] We’ve been going back and forth on actually posting this for a week now, but fuck it. It’s marketing, not the game. Compare and contrast the Europe and US covers for Settlers VII. [...]