Vidya marketing/Shilling

Ever had that someone?

Discuss some videogame marketing and how its overblown too many times.
The obvious examples today and the older ones that you remember.

This shit fucking infuriates me. If you need to play with your friends to have fun with a game, then you're not having fun with the game, you're just having fun with friends.

Fuck you, go to a bar if you want to hang out that badly and leave games alone, I don't need another 4+ faggots contributing $60 a piece towards legitimately shit franchises purely because you're all too brain-dead to play an actually decent, challenging title and would rather play some zero effort, low skill tripe so you can all turn off your brains and spend the next four hours joking about your shitty lives with each other.

MOBAs secret recipe

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It's true though.

People want to be a part of the hip new "gamer" fad, but single player games make you listen to dialogue, read things on screen, follow instructions and all that gay shit that takes too much effort and brainpower, so instead your average troglodyte gravitates towards something like GTA's online so they can spend the next two hours crashing a car into the same wall while their best friend bitches about their girlfriend in between bong hits on mic. Remove the friend component, though, and they'd give up after 5 minutes and move onto something else out of sheer boredom.

Porn marketing. See Overwatch

Sony false marketing
Walking simulator shovelware marketing (Gone Home)
Driver3 Scam
Cinematic trailers
Demoing in ultra high graphic setting for console games
(Pseudo) mature gamer marketing.

user, I know people who saw a LP playing a game, they then bought the game, never touched it and when I asked them about it they said that they would rather watch.
Why do you think Twitch is pure cancer?

Yeah, no wonder our hobby is dead, companies cater mainly to these retards, i just waiting to see the day this business burns.

Ain't happening, its more profitable than Hollywood at this point.