Content Videos and Images with CDS - Input Needed

Jordan

Hi all,

As many of you know. Content you license through the new CDS system does not allow you to create custom images or videos. (Please reference this thread where I explain why we came to this decision)

We are putting in place long term solutions for this problem(Putting in place strict guidelines for content creators to follow as well as giving you all more options of images and videos to choose from)

However, I want to address the short term solution in this post today. Some of the images and videos that come default with content may not be the best to show your customers(foul language, violence, publisher credits etc), and some videos don't exist at all.

We'd like your help identifying all contents you believe desperately need a new video or image. We will then reach out to the content creators and see if we can quickly get them to upload a new video or image that suites the arcade operators better.

Please list below with the following format:

Name of content If Image and/or video that needs replacement Why you think it needs a replacement

Thanks everyone!

KatePlayItVR

@Jordan I am currently going through our licenses list (100+) and collating a list for you. Initially this is games without videos. This is by far my biggest issue, especially that customers can't see a sample of game play through video in the launcher when choosing a game. This is probably more of an issue for us than other as we have chosen to have such a big library. VR is also very new in my area, we are the only arcade for a good 50 mile radius around us.

Will pop my list in here when completed.

KatePlayItVR

@Jordan

I know I've got no idea of all the stuff you guys do behind the scenes, but I have thought it would've made sense for SB to do a data integrity check of this before switching on controls that made it impossible for us to add or change thing the info. If that was to take some time to check the game preset data, could this control have waited to be switched on, rather than in the very first release. I can only think that an agreement was made with Content Creators to release it straight away, so why wouldn't the data integrity check be performed with them before agreeing to to release?

My reasoning behind why all game presets should have a short video of mainly game play is because that is what helps customers choose what to play. It's crucial to have this in the launcher, customers are substantially more likely to play something they know they might like. Descriptions, game image and tags can only do so much. I know our process of choosing which games to commercially licence is starts with looking up the title on Steam or Youtube and watching game play! I also dislike the inconsistency - now some games play videos in the launcher some don't, even more confusing for customers when they all did over a week ago when they were last in the arcade... Having these videos on the idle reel is an extra bonus. Our arcade is the only one for a 50 mile radius, we only opened in Feb this year so most of our customers are really new to VR and what you can do or the games you can play. A huge number of our customers come in for the first time and just watch the idle reel to see what they might want to play, nearly always asking "what game is that".

We are now working to have the Content Creators videos on our youtube channel (with disclaimer they are not our videos) and linked into a filterable page on our website so we can provide this information to customers through other channels.

When we were adding videos ourselves before, we were using the ones provided on Steam by the Content Creators themselves. I believe this is a huge opportunity missed by the Content Creators by not having a video on your games preset. I suspect that some of these are historic and maybe back then it wasn't part of the process to request a video from the Content Creators, that's why I believe a data integrity check should've been performed by Springboard before release.

There is one game image I think is all ages inappropriate: Arizona Sunshine Arcade. As the bloody zombie face can be scary for young ones.

Here's the list of games without videos:

Ashi Wash BattleSky VR Beat Saber Becoming Homeless: A human experience Big Breezy Boat Budget Cuts Cave Digger Chop It Cinderella VR Creed: Rise to Glory Don't Look Down Doodle VR Drunkn Bar Fight Eagle Flight Arcade Inhumanus Island 359 Kartong - Death by Cardboard! Mad Factory Naked Sun Nature Treks Nothin But Net QuiVR Vanguard Richie's Plank Experience Sign Here Smashbox Arena Space Junkies Arcade SportsBar VR Starbear Taxi Stunt Kite Masters VR The Cooking Game VR The Haunted Graveyard Thw Way of Kings: Escape the Shattered Plains Tin Hearts Trickster VR: Co-op Dungeon Crawler Ultrawings Viking Days VR Furballs Demolition VR Trivia Battle War Dust Witching Tower VR Zombie Training Simulator

Jordan

KatePlayItVR

@KatePlayItVR - I really appreciate the thorough response. I'll just own up and say we missed it when we launched this. This was a huge release, and a few things like this slipped through. We are shifting a lot internally about how we release new features in the future. One being much better, and more transparent communication with you all. Second being we will likely never do such a huge release all at once ever again.

@HunterLaneSBVR @William - Kate provided a nice list for us to start. ^