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Larian publishing director says "marketing's dead" because players don't want to be "bamboozled," and "we learned that with Baldur's Gate 3" (www.gamesradar.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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This has some really interesting implications that are not restricted to gaming.

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[โ€“] APassenger 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cities Skylines 2 went the opposite direction.

Here's hoping lessons are learned. Entire generations have learned to be deeply skeptical even with trusted brands.

And, yes, I hope that skepticism and relationship based, authentic(?) word of mouth brings sanity for a while.

Until businesses try to optimize that into oblivion too. We gotta put guard rails in place.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah I got burned badly by saints row 5. I figured it couldn't be any worse than 4. I was so wrong.