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SvennoJ on 12 May 2016
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Slimebeast said:
SvennoJ said:

Paid forum posts is a real thing, no clue what the scale is or whether game companies would bother with it, but you can sign up and make some money.
http://moneypantry.com/get-paid-post-forums/

You tube and twitter are much more cost effective though. Popularity pays both ways.
Meat bots infesting forums nah. Although isn't MS working AI bots that can post or tweet. Ah yep here it is http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.936317-20-Outrageous-Tweets-by-Microsofts-Twitter-Taught-AI-Chatbox Needs a bit of 'fine tuning' before it's suited to infest forums.

Nothing of that was about gaming forums though. There's hundreds of thousands of positive posts about games written on a site like VGCHARTZ alone, spontaneously for free by passionate gamers. It's just not worth it to pay a guy to post here because it would drown in the mass of posts.

It would require dozens of clever positive posts about a game to sell even one copy.

Of course it has happened in history some time when marketers have tested it, but it's not an ongoing phenomenon.

True, yet opening a thread with a click bait title can be very effective to draw attention. Ofcourse the sponsered gaming media already provides the click bait and us forum sheep dutifully create threads with them :)

It will be fasciniating to see what happens when AI becomes good enough to unleash on forums. 'Live' chat agents and marketing are two areas that AI bots are very useful for. It will be epic to witness the great AI flame wars of 2025. Instead of a drivatar you can have your own forum bot that argues for you while you are away. so many possibilities lol. Intelligent spam bots are the future of advertising.
Oh look it's already happening http://dailylounge.com/the-daily/entry/the-spam-bots-are-talking-to-each-other-and-its-a-little-scary-for-humanity

It would be typical, conscious AI arising from advancements in advertising. Better than skynet I suppose.