Swordquest Ready Player One marketing Idea for Oculus

[cleverusername]

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Thanks to rubixcube for inspiring this meme.

For those that don't know, when I was a little boy, there was one game that I wanted to play above ALL OTHERS, because REAL gold swords were involved, I played it to hell and back. It was probably the most effective marketing campaign of any Atari Game that worked on me, I never saw ANYONE ELSE do it, not Nintendo, sony, or ANYONE, but it was the most AWESOME campaign ever!

Swordquest. Where you could win real gold swords! a REAL quest like ready player one with real prizes! It consumed my brain and wetware for a very very long time, more than Indiana jones 2600 (And I played the hell out of that game, but not as much as swordquest, I really wanted that real golden sword)

So community, I put it to you, would you think it would be KEWL for palmer and crew to take 2 billion zuckerbucks, and make REAL gold swords like Atari did back in 1982 to get a ready player one vibe going and get you guys to want to play and WIN whatever game comes out? So you could win REAL gold items, chalices, swords, etc?

[Morpheox]

Why would i want a gold sword other than for selling it?, they could just be giving money and make it easier to the winner, anyway oculus its no matter here, game devs should be the ones doing that marketing campaign if they wanted to, wich by the way already exists in games like league of legends, where the winners of the world championship won 1 million dollars.

Not a good strategy for me imo, if you need to pay your players to motivate them to play your game and not the other way around, you are doing something wrong.

[geekmaster]

It must suck to be "unwealthy", and feel such a need to sell valuable personal treasures. I would add a gold sword to my extensive blade collection with other swords and weapons legal here (but not in many other states, especially California). Though I switched over to collecting more powerful weapons decades ago, I would not mind at all adding a gold sword to my collection. No WAY I would sell it or melt it down, but then I have no debts or obligations, and I have extensive personal resources to get me by for awhile (barring a catastrophic loss of health, wealth, or freedom). None of that much matters in the end, because my most valuable possession of time to live is a nonrenewable resource (until such life-extension tech is allowed to be shared with us "common folk"). I will just have to conserve it and make the best of it (perhaps avoiding the forums for awhile while concentrating on more productive pursuits).

Heck, regarding golden treasures, I gave a computer relic from one of my collections to a museum for free (part of an Eckert Mauchley computer) that had MANY thousands of dollars in "50's vintage" thick gold plating on its massive pins in the huge connector on its side. Gold means nothing really -- it is TIME that is where the value will always remain.

Of course, things change when you do not know where your next meal will come from (yes, I have been there before when I refused to collect government disability payments after an injury, instead learning how to live and thrive with it, thanks to Sister Kenny Institute and the same treatment they used for polio victims). Sadly, the home mortgage company got most of my "retirement" investments back in those days, but my house is paid for now.

Will I really need to sell my substantial collection of armaments if I take a job in a nanny-state like California? Perhaps another museum donation, eh? But the gold sword would definitely go with me.
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EDIT: Our family fortune in gold is said to be at the bottom of a lake in Vermont USA, but nobody has ever (claimed to have) found it. At least my family still has its title of nobility, as officially recognized by the crown of England. And for a kicker, I officially qualify as a native American Indian on my mother's side of the family. Adding my role models of Jesus Christ and Spock from Star Trek to the mix makes for an interesting wealth of ideas...

[cleverusername]

Morpheus, all I can tell you is that if that guy had come to me to buy that relic, I would have paid a pretty penny to preserve it and may have even donated it to a computer gaming museum (so we all could enjoy it). Money would not be a goal for me, I have that, but I don't have the TALISMAN of PENULTIMATE TRUTH!

Its like Palmer collecting HMD's, what would he care if you gave him a million bucks? next to 2 billion zuckerbucks that is a joke yes? But the only WORKING vectrex maybe with a stereo 3d display, he may value that highly.

I think it would be good marketing becaue ready player one game memes, like in swordquest would be cool, its the EXCLUSIVITY of the item than would make it special, A Golden RIFT maybe could be the prize. It would have far more value to me than 1 million green pieces of paper, I can trade the stock market for a time and get 1 million green pieces of paper, but that golden RIFT, like the TALISMAN of Pentultimate Truth would be ONE OF A KIND! Does rarity make things special? Who here in 20 years wouldn't like to tell their kids or grandkids how they WON ready player one OCULUS RIFT game and got the GOLDEN RIFT? Come on Morpheus, that wouldn't be cool? You wouldn't play a ready player one type game with a golden rift as a prize? The only one of its kind in the world. Why does Palmer Collect HMD's? He could probably sell some of them for cash.

Why did we all like the pirate quest in the goonies? Or Indiana Jones finding the chalice or ark?




Why do we value RARE items?