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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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[-] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I tried really hard to like Fall Guy for the sake of one friend a few years ago, but it's just so bad and monetised.

[-] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 week ago

Everyone kept praising Baldur's Gate 3. I even watched gameplay of it.

It was buggy on the supposed release, especially with a quest that had been part of the beta FOR YEARS rendering itself incompleltable and stealing my items in the process.

Then I got sucked into a party wipe, and a fight I had beaten earlier suddenly became an impassable slogfest.

$90 AUD for 3 hours of gameplay and a piss poor character creator. Because orcs had fuckall compared to the other races.

I am never trusting popular opinion again.

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