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They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? (lemmy.zip)
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Feel free to replace "friends" with "anyone you know in real life" or even online groups you trust or are close with.

"They":

WOM marketing is highly effective as 88% of consumers trust friend recommendations over traditional media.

and my own personal experience; most games I have bought in the past 10 years have been off of recommendations from r/gamingsuggestions before Reddit went to crap and Lemmy came into existence; and even moreso when it is a personal friend recommending things to me.

Mods, feel free to nuke if this feels too close to advertising or better-suited for !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip (my own community); I mean it more as a discussion piece but I don't run the place.

EDIT: The "not" in the title is optional; I'm asking about both successful and failed recommendations.

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[-] anticonnor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines I didn’t get around to playing this game until about a decade after its release, and I seriously don’t understand who could find that game enjoyable except 13yo edgelords.

[-] imecth@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

I played it and had a great time a few years ago and I'm certainly no 13yo or edgelord. Vtmb has a very unique setting, good writing and a great soundtrack. The gameplay is probably the worst part about it though, it's also quite unfinished in the later parts. Don't open it.

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I mean most of the people shilling it probably were teens at the time they played it. It's like Neon Genesis Evangelion: teenage drama that's "deep", but when you watch it as an adult it just doesn't hit.

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