• Agent_Karyo@piefed.world
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    2 days ago

    Steam shows ads for launches on startup and both platforms suffer from social media influence.

    I haven’t seen the startup ads in what seems like a decade. I don’t see a big deal with content creators providing reviews (and commentary), the key is finding content creators who are independent and focus on the needs of their viewers/readers.

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      2 days ago

      There’s no issue with it, they are obviously going to take money to play a game, that’s on their own morals to decide.

      But a lot of people just blindly buy whatever is shown to them, its why standards for games in the mainstream market has fallen off a cliff over the last 15 years. We have people buying $30 skins on the regular…