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RareAcumen posted:It feels less weird that that's happened since the game had like two months of open beta for people to try it. People have been streaming the game on Twitch since like October.
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CellBlock posted:People have been streaming the game on Twitch since like October. Yeah, so I'm bad at timeframes.
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Ha that's right I remember that part now. I was way too excited to see kat tut, I didn't remember that it was from peggle (i have read this whole thread but that was quite a while ago and now I more or less just keep up with it). When I explained my excitement to my girlfriend she rolled her eyes and told me that I am a big nerd.
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Alaois posted:Blizzard is scarily good at getting people to market their games for them It is OK to like things.
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Besesoth posted:The Overwatch gangtags having the "wrong" filenames is my favorite forums gag in a while. Oh wow I didn't even notice 
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Alaois posted:Blizzard is scarily good at getting people to market their games for them The game is new, it's good, and it has distinctive (if bland) characters that acquire personality primarily through the way they kick your rear end. People are gonna latch onto that sort of thing, it's not like Blizzard is giving people in-game rewards for getting an Overwatch gang tag. It's like accusing FROM of being good at getting people to market Dark Souls for them just because they made a game with enough lasting appeal that people still bring it up constantly. HMS Boromir has a new favorite as of 10:05 on Jun 1, 2016 |
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HMS Boromir posted:The game is new, it's good, and it has distinctive (if bland) characters that acquire personality primarily through the way they kick your rear end. People are gonna latch onto that sort of thing, it's not like Blizzard is giving people in-game rewards for getting an Overwatch gang tag. It's like accusing FROM of being good at getting people to market Dark Souls for them just because they made a game with enough lasting appeal that people still bring it up constantly. So what you're saying is that Overwatch is the Dark Souls of class-based multiplayer shooters?
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quiggy posted:class-based multiplayer shooters? Is that what it's called? I just think of it as "a team fortress 2 game".
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prefect posted:Is that what it's called? I just think of it as "a team fortress 2 game". Overwatch is basically Team Fortress 3, by Blizzard.
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prefect posted:Is that what it's called? I just think of it as "a team fortress 2 game". That's not a perfect description but it's whole lot better than calling it a MOBA.
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It's a MOBA-like Doom clone.
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It's basically just space invaders with a bunch of unnecessary poo poo heaped on.
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A Doomoba, if you will.
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MOOB.
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Paladinus posted:MOOB. Mobile Online Obligatory Battling?
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Alaois posted:Blizzard is scarily good at getting people to market their games for them Sexualized characters appealing to teenage boys never hurts, either.
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Yeah, that much is probably true. Neither I nor anyone I know that's been memein' hard on Overwatch watches the kind of streamer/youtubist that would get a free copy from Blizzard so it didn't cross my mind.
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RareAcumen posted:But tbh I'm talking about people buying avatars of a thing themselves. The Gunnerkrigg thread was (is?) notorious for waves of avatars being anonymously bought for thread participants, much like the lums (though not quite as many at once). I'd guess the majority of GKC avs were from the mystery av buyer.
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Bhodi posted:They gave free games and financial incentives to a lot of youtubers...they literally paid people to play the game I hate to break it to you but literally every major game company and youtuber does this.
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Yeah for a while there was an "avatar fairy" who would buy people who posted in the thread avatars, even if they didn't ask for one.
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Bhodi posted:They gave free games and financial incentives to a lot of youtubers, just like with hearthstone. It didn't just come from thin air, they literally paid people to play the game. What followed (memes, videos) wasn't directly incentivized but blizzard started the ball rolling. Clever marketing. have you not been on steam in the past 5 years? every review starts with "DISCLAIMER COPY WAS PROVIDED BY DEVELOPER"
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Bhodi posted:They gave free games and financial incentives to a lot of youtubers, just like with hearthstone. It didn't just come from thin air, they literally paid people to play the game. What followed (memes, videos) wasn't directly incentivized but blizzard started the ball rolling. Clever marketing. How does it feel to be a joyless husk?
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packetmantis posted:How does it feel to be a joyless husk? *throws handful of assorted SSRIs, SNRIs, and MAOIs down throat* Wouldn't Know.
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I don't know if anyone has elaborated  any further thanFebreeze posted:
In Aion there was a pubbie guild that got really mad at goons and had a meltdown thread about us on their private forums. They got some small victory or something and felt very vindicated, and the pubbies chain-posted a large version of as a reaction to it like "owned" or "rekt" in image form. That thread got linked on SA, goons laughed at pubbie antics and then some nerd actually bought as an emoticon on SA. and so here we are.
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do you have the large version
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Nope. poo poo happened in 2009  If it exists it's in archives. Google only finds newer aion threads from 2012 etc
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Trogdos! posted:Nope. poo poo happened in 2009
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Suspicious Dish posted:do you have the large version http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/square_medium/7/79058/1330513-thurman.jpg
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bradzilla posted:what is gmail (or some google service, I forget which) used to have some funky retro emoticons, one of which was . they've since been replaced with standard emoji, many were sad that their emotes went awaynow, add in a little YOSPOS insanity: Smythe (our beloved moderator) loves memes. Shaggar (our resident Microsoft apologist) dislikes any browsers that aren't IE, so he took to calling them slowfari, failfox, and chome (a corruption of chrome). After Smythe read chome one too many times, it got stuck in his head and he couldn't stop thinking about it. chome. chome. chome. he made a series of videos (now redacted) of himself saying chome in different situations. he also pointed out the emote on gmail and proclaimed it to be the official emote for the new meme.someone else (I forget which poster is behind the youtube account, get your digital branding straight dudes) made this video which really helped spur chome's popularity (and led to making other memes popular such as lomarf and mome): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqzTmzyMmtU
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Silver Alicorn posted:dislikes any browsers that aren't IE, 
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DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO YOSPOS
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Silver Alicorn posted:gmail (or some google service, I forget which) used to have some funky retro emoticons, one of which was well that is quite the thorough explanation, ty
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Lomarf is Trending.
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Smythe posted:Lomarf is Trending.
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