Against the Industry (Malstrom)

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Slimebeast said:

liquidninja said:

Slimebeast said:

"Viral messengers, posing as ‘gamers’, are polluting message forums and comments from various websites in the shape to ‘change public opinion’. Anyone who deserves a place in Dante’s Inferno would be computer virus makers and viral marketers posing as regular people. I want viral messengers *gone*."

Where does he get this from? I think he's overexaggerating this a lot. I've never met a viral marketer disguised as a gamer.

There have been reports of stealth marketers seeded in message boards by EGM and Penny Arcade. I made a whole thread quoting them:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=74516&page=1

Intersting. But I think it's kinda rare. They drown in the mass of posts, because there's millions of gamers that sit on forums and YouTube posting dozens of comments almost every night. And gamers can be very enthusiastic and they do it all for free.

This is why it's called viral marketing. It spreads like a virus, that reproduces from a few units, and transforms more healthy cells into virus too, until it reaches critical mass. 

They only need a hundred paid viral marketers (with thousands of accounts, don't forget), at agiven time, like E3, on the 100 most well known gaming forums, and if each of them starts glorifying the latest big announcement, at the same time, each post might convince dozens of gamers that there is a universal hype, so they would proceed parotting these points, and convince even more gamers.