Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post

theoneandonlyeggboi@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Patient gamers always win

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  • bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You aren’t kidding. I played Kingdom Come Deliverance last year, when I learned about the second one. Was like wow.

    Then read how they originally were courting the anti-woke crowd. Who later turned on them because the sequel has “woke” material.

    Its great to not be a part of those GAMERS.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If there are enough people who wait until after a game has been out for some time to play it, there will be marketers targeting that group too.

    They might promote the thing based on value or something other than what the latest flashy game crowd gets, but put enough wallets together and there’s an incentive for someone to go after them. The astroturfing guy’s shtick was that he was targeting individual communities with crafted material to try to appeal to them. PatientGamers is another community.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      NotToddHoward has entered the chat
      NTH: Hello everyone, I just found out this old game, Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, it looks super cool!

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All I want is a game that’s not a buggy mess.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The marketer in the article — as with anyone else trying to do surreptitious marketing of this sort — is in the business of making hype that is hard to distinguish from buzz. If it were trivial to identify hype, he wouldn’t be in business.

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