Marketing Behind These Games

These two have the biggest marketing pushes I've ever seen in vidya.

You genuinely can't find videos about the games that weren't sponsored by them.

I don't know if it's Hasbro or Wizards of the Coast pumping money into it, but it's insane.

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >something I dislike gets insanely popular
    >"IT'S LE MARKETING PUSH!!!!"

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Pass User
      >Akihabara anime gif
      >LE
      >Ganker filename

      Fricking hell c**t.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      what tranime does to a mf

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      First time seeing tencent in action?

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've never even heard of the one on the left

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The point is both had the same content creator marketing pitch, but Pathfinder was a much smaller game.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    the only marketing BG3 had was a funny bear
    everything else was just a being a good game

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >everything else was just a being a good game

      They're both 6.9/10 games built on the back of a game that doesn't translate to a visual medium.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        sixty-nine bro!!

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Goblinism.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    If pathfinder wotr had FULLY voiced support it would be literal 10/10 game, prove me wrong

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nah.
      >bugged and broken
      >shitty critical role snowflake meme companions
      >mythic powerwank anime garbage
      >le rip n tear "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!" campaign
      >200 classes but combat is trash
      >trash mob fighting simulator
      >too long and not in a good way
      Kingmaker was better in almost every way.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Kingmaker was better in almost every way.
        I am glad to see people starting to espouse this finally. I like WotR, but it's nowhere near the classical exploration and adventuring of Kingmaker.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Kingmaker was better
        We're reaching levels of contrarianism that border on schizophrenia.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Kingmaker was better
          Just fricking say you don't enjoy video games and find a new hobby

          >Kingmaker was better in almost every way
          you really need to get out of the mindset of hating new game just because it's new, there is no way in fricking hell that kingmaker is better than wotr

          I finished Kingmaker and enjoyed it. I stopped Wrath after ten hours.
          As another anon above said, the adventure and exploration factor is severely lacking in wrath. You immediately start at maximum stakes and have a long power fantasy. The second game is probably better if you go all in on build autism.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Kingmaker was better
        Just fricking say you don't enjoy video games and find a new hobby

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Kingmaker was better in almost every way
        you really need to get out of the mindset of hating new game just because it's new, there is no way in fricking hell that kingmaker is better than wotr

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      How is it a 10/10 game? It opens up with a bug army at the town fair.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The voice acting was horrible for what was there, fully voiced would've made every piece of content 10X worse.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I like the game but the dialogue is horrendous.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick no. Wrath has maybe two good voice actors in it, the rest are genuinely terrible.
      But I personally cannot stand American accents in a fantasy setting, it's like going to a shitty medieval LARP faire full of sweating hambeasts.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick voice acting. It's for literal morons who can't read.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Then it would fit wotr perfectly

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Voice acting means less lines, less interactions, less flexibility when updating/designing quests and characters (since you have to hire the same person again).
      Much easier to just voice key moments and keep everything else text.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    pathfinder is not wotc nor is hasbro what are you doing anon

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the biggest marketing pushes I've ever seen in vidya
    you're completely moronic, these arent even the biggest marketing push of the year. ever heard of D4? because normies have.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Love how angry weebs are over these games

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Do you also drink from a mug that says "Weeb tears" that you bought for $20?

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    MIND
    BROKEN
    god DAMN I love anything that causes you board shitting schizos mental anguish.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >schizos

      Back to Discord.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >schizo projecting as always
        you homosexuals getting online was the worst thing that ever happened to us

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      troony

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    So who is pumping money into this shit? Hasbro? Disney? The ESG shit in the game spells it out somewhere.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Tencent owns 30% of Larian. I don't know if WOTR was really shilled even nearly as much though, Ganker is the only place I ever see anyone even mention it

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >/pol/tards don't know what investing firms do (but their political elders sure do)
      >/pol/tards can't enjoy vidya and screech endlessly as the rest of the board does
      >endlessly regurgitating the same 5 stupid things over and over
      >probably has a 'troony reaction image folder'
      there is no bigger loser on this Earth than you

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        wish i could upvote this epic post but you probably touch kids LMAO

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >those two things have nothing at all to do with each other
          >literal hard projection
          LOL he's STILL losing

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >you do x because I say so
            cool newbie rhetoric laugh out loud :DDDD

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Damn you could start a movie theater with that amount of projection, anon.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      these companies typically contract out marketing work to other companies that specialize in it
      if they don't do that then they just let their publisher handle it and that's what the publisher does - sometimes the publisher themselves are the marketing agency

      every game you can think of works like this with the exception maybe of indie studios run by 1 guy in his basement although even then I've seen a lot of those guys do their desperate advertising by themselves right here on Ganker, underrail comes to mind in particular

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Snoy's probably part of it. homosexual sims are all they do and they're bleeding from losing COD, the other day I saw one of their marketing firms try to claim this bootleg Bioware abortion as their exclusive and then it started to make sense.

      what kind of marketing did pathfinder have?

      I wanted to frick blonde Jeanne d'Arc from the threads only to find they weren't talking about a WEG but a shoddy CRPG which I immediately dropped, does that count? Just like with the turbo rapist gays bearfrickers, the threads had 0 (zero) discussion on gameplay or roleplay so I can't even be blamed.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Chris wieners is pushing for more games so yeah, they got their grubby little paws all over it. Will this work out for Hasbro in the long run? Probably. Their toys suck and WotC pissed of their entire community with a very scummy (and ever changing) OGL. You know, I'm actually impressed that this didn't turn out like Andromeda or something. WotC loves to ruin things, you see.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >WotC loves to ruin things, you see

        Thanks God Konami didn't make BG3.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Baldars Gate Pachinko
          Hold up, you might be onto something.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >instead of dice rolls every choice in the game is decided by a Pachinko machine

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Did/pol/tards just learn about ESG scores? I see it mentioned everywhere now.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Esg isn't real

        You know this won't work right
        Devs admitted themselves

        You trannies wont succeed

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Black person learn some reading comprehension.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Rogan mentioned it.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        we're not going to stop talking about it until corporations stop socially engineering video games to be bad.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sure that's good
          but why now? It's been a thing.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            you're only noticing it now because you are a normalhomosexual...sorry bro.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I'm noticing other people noticing now. Even back during the Gamergate meme almost no one mentioned it. That would have been the perfect time.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Did/pol/tards just learn about ESG scores? I see it mentioned everywhere now.
        Nah, we knew about ESG and companies pushing woke shit into their products for a while. It did gain prominence recently so now even normies talk about it.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >So who is pumping money into this shit? Hasbro?
      Larian had to ask hasbro multiple times to let them use the Baldurs Gate title. IIRC they had to pay them a little in royalties for it as well.
      >pumping money.
      There is none lmao.
      The “marketing machine” for this game was basically a whimper.
      A lot of the “top dog” streamers aren’t even bothering with it (because they aren’t getting paid)

      I think it’s just a case of people got a good look at the game in early access, liked what they saw, and this “taste test” led to them buying the game.
      Simple as.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Asmongold is going to do a full multiplayer playthrough with other streamers and Mconnel, that's going to double this shit's sales.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      tencent, blackrock and the eternal gay

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      chinks and maybe black rock, i mean the game has so much woke in it will make a normal person vomit
      The only things those subhumans shills are spamming are the porn/romances and sales/metacritic number, that's it.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Blackrock has been colluding with chinks for months now, nothing surprising there. BG3 is just a massive push towards universal degeneracy and would have absolutely been shunned if it came out shortly after the actual good BG games, before Blackrock took control of the hobby.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I certainly don't see many ads of them, if ever, you ever think maybe it's just good and simply word of mouth?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Their marketing is clever. They know they don't need fricking stupid ass billboards in NY Square.
      The only things that matters in gaming is Twitch stats, Steam stats, YouTube reviews and Metacritic's score.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >comparing an actual tiny indie company like Owlcat who worked for 2 years on WotR to Larian with a WotC license and 400+ employees who worked for 6 years on BG3
    This is some falseflag thread, isn't it?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      there's no way they worked on this game longer than 2 years

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The game has been in early access for three years alone.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Remember when Larian compared to Obsidian?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      no

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    what kind of marketing did pathfinder have?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Compared to BG3 pretty much none. You're in a bait thread, anon.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sponsorships.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      none. only thing i remembered during the launch day was people posting and shilling Arue but that was it honestly.

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    he's fricking SEETHING, God I love it

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What is it about CRPGs that causes unfathomable and relentless seething with some homosexuals on this board? It's a genre that many people like, it has many aspects of discussion regarding builds, story, and waifus, and it has a long tradition within gaming from dungeon crawlers with the likes of Wizardry, to Baldur's Gate, to Arcanum. If you don't like it, that doesn't mean others shouldn't either. Not everything is due to marketing you brain rotter.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      CRPGs are fricking awful. We just pretend they're good because PCgays from the 90s put Diablo II and Baldur's Gate in top 100 games lists when they shouldn't even be there.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Autism

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        And consolegays have seen to it that FROMslop wins awards every time they squeeze out another rehash, but I don't hear you complaining when it comes time for another round of Geoff's corporate backpatting parade.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      autism

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >it has many aspects of discussion regarding builds, story,
      Where has that been for BG3? All I've seen are people talking about
      >other devs reacting to the game
      >review scores
      >sex
      >the length of the game
      Why is no one discussing the intricacies of the plot or their favourite builds?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The plot sucks and you're probably just missed the build discussion because there's not much of it and what little there is has been drowned out by /misc/acking and romancegays

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's console babies.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      a lot of it is political tourists, for some reason they decided to turn this game into some kind of autistic culture war shit

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    yeah bg3 is the most obvious shill campaign i think i've ever seen

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      you've never seen one
      you weren't even alive when the first game came out
      fricking hilarious

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Panic post

        Like watching some alphabet agency get outed on Twitter.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'll bet you know all about Twitter, huh?
          >mom I am owning the FBI on Twitter moooom
          LOL go back

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      people said the same thing about Hi-Fi Rush being the biggest marketing push ever when the only mention of it ever was the day it was released on a game award show, as if normies watch those. Then anyone discussing the game for the first time was labeled a shill.

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    But why BG3? Surely there are better gaymes to market that hard and from what I saw BG3 has literally frickall except the most shallow nostalgia bait to get BG1&2 fans to buy.
    It just seems like they could have named it anything else and done better.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hasbro wanted a game on the Sword Coast because fricking everything they print is set there so it's BG3 simple as that.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      D&D has always been strangely big.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >BG3 has literally frickall except the most shallow nostalgia bait to get BG1&2 fans
      BG3 has way more to do with Divinity and Dragon Age 1 than previous BG games u tard

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pathfinder has like literally no marketing lol, and the game is utterly repulsive to the normies

    BG3 is simply good game coming out at the time of massive drought in gaming

    The frick are u talking about, none of this is related to marketing

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You probably work in their marketing firm.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Frick u got me

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the game is utterly repulsive to the normies

      Just like Diablo and WoW, right?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Can u imagine this b***h playing fricking Wrath of the Righteous? Yeah, exactly

        Thats what repulsive to normies means, in fact Pathfinder filters lots of actual RPG players since a lot of it is character spreadsheet autism

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous
        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Why do you have screencaps of prostitutes? How much money have you lost without them saying your name?
          Confess your sins.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Confess your sins.
            frick off time janny

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I lost 0$ since i never gave any of them anything, and i have adblock enabled to make sure they dont profit off me

            Reason I have the screenshot is because I saw it while browsing BG category on Twitch, which sparked an idea for bait thread in here, hence the screenshot (thread got murdered unfortunately)

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Same thing with normies getting into anime in the past 10 years ( since Attack On Titan basically ). They lower the standards. I found this AMV recently where they have taken something thats implicitly deeply European in a way thats rare nowadays and they have dubbed over it with the jigaboo music from ~~*muttmerica)) as if they are looking at Kim Kardashian, absolutely disgusting. This is why I didn't like the 2014 anime because it was a weak adaptation and I could sense that it was going in this direction, but they slightly redeemed it for HF. Not exactly video games but closely related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtZFoLlGII

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            What the frick are you talking about, on multiple levels.
            What exactly is deeply European about Rin, why are you surprised that shitty Black person music is used when it comes to Americans and their ilk, how is UBW a bad adaptation and how in the ever loving frick is HW a good adaptation.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              HF isn't good either but I liked the first movie, second and third cut out a lot of content, dialogue, thoughts etc from the VNs route, focused on the Alter Saber and berserker fight that wasn't even described in the VN if I remember correctly, a boring fight on par with Fairy Tail where 2 dudes just throw power moves at each other over and over until one wins due to the power of will and friendship and being good and right, or something along those lines. UBW did the same thing where they included a fight that was never in the VN, and let Illya win just because shes a e-girl and its Japan, yes she has magical powers and a tonne of mana which would help but shes clearly childish, undisciplined compared to Rin. Could she have learned a bunch from the german people / maids at the castle ? probably but theres nothing to suggest that she did so and instead just behaved liked a spoiled brat / lonely and crazy kid. Rin has german ancestry at least in her magecraft, speaks german, and resembles some german/ western european phenotypes, not much about her is stereotypically Japanese and in early artworks ( pre Ufotable ) she looks like a stereotypical european girl. She looks no less European that Saber who is meant to be English. She lives in a European style house and most of the mythology in the story is European or arabic / african, not Japanese. Japanese culture is also the closest thing to English culture outside of Europe which is why they idolize us, but when they come here they get Paris Syndrome.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                How much time do you spend thinking about race on any given day?

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    If the game fails, Ganker was right with the constant shitting
    If the game succeeds, the shitting was marketing

    There are Anons who are unable to accept, or admit, that they themselves shit on games before even playing them. Just by some reactionary Twitter or Youtube people screenshots.
    Because why on earth would something like Larian advertise here? Especially some fricking druid gay bear scene as their main marketing tactic, on top of shitting on their own game while spamming some of their developers Twitter accounts, it would prob become workplace harassment issue in just few seconds.

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >These two have the biggest marketing pushes I've ever seen in vidya.
    new to video games?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Previous AAA marketing was different. They took cues from Hollywood.

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >everything is le viral marketing
    consider yourself mindbroken lmao

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Okay, I've got my shill pdf, it's Dog Monday in the office, let's go
      >Okay okay, keywords... keywords... ah-
      >"Mindbroken". Oh that's a good one

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    yeah dude look at this comparatively marketed player count, they really killed it what a huge W for viral marketing companies lmfaoo

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Just because your Hasbro money got caught out, doesn't mean you won't be too.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Are you moronic Paizo owns pathfinder a direct competitive to Wotc

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick, this game is tiny compared to BG3, I'd leave Owlcat marketing threads up out of pity.

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    These games spent probably a fraction of the budget of AAA games for the same returns by getting people actually interested in the game to play and show it off to others, and it’s generating all of these threads of people seething that it can’t be rea

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >people seething that it can’t be rea

      They got he/him...

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ignore my last post, I think this is an AstroTurfed campaign for BG3, and we should only play games by real devs like Outer Worlds

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >pathfinder
    >marketed
    what? that game is niche as hell and most people get filtered because of the mechanics themselves

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Game sucks
    >most disappointing character creator ever made
    >gameplay is tedious as frick and just wastes your time, time wasting rice roll scene, wait for everyone to finish their ten second animations, miss way more often than you should
    >can't pause the game, EVER, in singleplayer. lol thanks for giving it offline playability though you Black folk
    >when in combat during your turn, enemies wandering about aren't paused and can get aggroed and enter battle
    >open realtime battle was a moronic oversight, combat can start mid conversation
    >resting mechanic just exists to pad out playtime, needlessly wastes time again
    >writing is cliche dnd larian slop
    >act 2 and 3 are atrocious, apologize to marvel now
    >forced cinematic cutscenes everywhere, even when trying to kill people it tells you "lOoOl aTtAcKiNg ThIs PeRsOn MaDe It AnGrY"
    >a fricking annoying narrator you can't ever mute, for a game you are supposed to read and use your imagination
    >companions are fanfic tier, exist solely for the writer's barely disguised fetish
    >daring to get to know a companion means "yes" and is consent for gay sex
    >game clearly doesn't want you to start your own fights as you always end up getting 20 guys a mile away attacking you instead
    5/10 newbie shills never heard of DOS2

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >a fricking annoying narrator you can't ever mute, for a game you are supposed to read and use your imagination

      "You stop and think about the temptation about replying to this post. The potential influx of (You)s make your mind moist with anticipation. You surmise that this Anon is no stranger to the act."

      - I agree.
      - Your opinion is wrong. Now die.
      - Yes. I want the (You)s. Show me how to do it.
      - There must be another way.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >lacks inner monologue
        npc detected

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Do you think npcs freak out when playing Hasbro's Baldur's Gate 3 when the narrator starts talking?
          They'll be all like, "Woah! Who's this lady talking? What's she meant to be?"
          Haha

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            bg3 was made for npcs so they need to be told what text on the screen says

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          If your inner monologue uses "you" instead of "I" you need to see someone.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >a fricking annoying narrator you can't ever mute, for a game you are supposed to read and use your imagination
      Is this an elaborate troll post? DOS2 is the game with the narrator who reads out hundreds of thousands of lines during the game. The BG3 narrator only voices key moments. I played BG1 and 2 a bunch of times and DOS2 recently, BG3 is a good game and worthy successor.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >it was shit then but its good now

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Tencent
    >WOTC

    It's no wonder this shilling campaign was especially phony.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >850k concurrent
      you misspelled "successful"

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Kingmaker> Wotr
    >bg3 is an objectively good game
    these are my opinions

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Just wait until you see a blurry screen cap of one of the dev’s tweets, that will surely change your mind

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Game is being marketed by shills and AI

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Do you have to post your shitted kink into every video thumbnail?

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's even more insideous than that. It looks like the Chinese are behind the massive shill campaign for this outrageously anti-white game dev.

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Pathfinder was highly marketed
    Was I asleep for this? I thought only CRPG people cared for that one.

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    they're just good games
    which is abnormal for the current market

    don't you remember when undertale took over the board for months, you think toby fox payed the jannies? no, they do it for free.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I tried to make a Lankey Kong thread before and got banned.
      *crowd jeers and boos*
      It is true! These janitors must be stopped.

  33. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I don't know if it's Hasbro or Wizards of the Coast
    Hasbro owns WotC.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      larian doesn't work for wizards and pathfinder is a different and open system.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >larian doesn't work for wizards
        They do in this case.
        >pathfinder is a different and open system.
        I never said that it was owned by WotC/Hasbro, it's owned by Paizo. Also there is nothing "open" about it, it lifted the D20 SRD to make their own spin on D&D 3.5, it's only "open" in the sense that they were already borrowing a system with an open license.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          no they don't, if you have been following the drama via youtube you'd know by now they bought the rights to use the IP. they DO NOT -WORK FOR- wizards of the coast.
          and I quote "what funding?"

  34. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >one game is so customizable you can remove all blacks from the campaign
    >other is filled to the brim with blacks and homos
    I know what I'll be playing.

  35. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >pathfinder
    >marketing
    that game had 45k at launch homosexual, it had no marketing if you compare it with the bear fricker 3, now KYS chink

  36. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >WoTR
    >marketing
    What.

  37. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    A few dedicated shills can have a disproportionate impact on imageboards.

  38. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yep, it's really a sad sight to behold.

  39. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Good games get everyone's attention
    >Marketing

    Classic Ganker thinking their minds are above everyone else

  40. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm enjoying BG3 but the shilling is really obvious. Considering that a few companies have shills on here it wouldn't surprise me if more than a few threads on here are too.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ganker has been a marketer's playground since 2012. Just gotta git gud at parsing shill threads from actual anon engagement.

      Still having fun.

  41. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Baldurs guys said that they only didn't get any funding from WOTC, but that they also had to pay licensing fees.

  42. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >These two have the biggest marketing pushes I've ever seen in vidya.

    That's still Cyberpunk 2077 and it's not even close.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's close, but you are correct.

  43. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >anyone that talks about video games on a board for the discussion of video games is a shill
    Ok

  44. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    what marketing did Pathfinder had? it was barely advertised and was niche as hell. i have seen Ganker, RPGcodex and some slav sites talk about the game

  45. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    [...]

    You're missing the point, morons. It wasn't about people having jobs, that's normal. It was about people playing the game, then stopping playing for a week, then coming back IN HIGHER NUMBERS than before. That's not how this shit fricking naturally works. People drop off over time, especially if they don't play for a week. It is not fricking natural for a game to GAIN players on its second fricking weekend after dropping off over the week. There's a hump, not a peak.

    >self report
    lmao you literally aren't even trying to hide that you're from tumblr. Stop trying to own people and just present decent fricking arguments. You know how easy you make it to present a rebuttal when you start throwing insults and acting like I'm a NEET instead of addressing my actual fricking argument?
    Also a really fricking hilarious irony in paid marketers accusing people of not having real jobs

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      what is this autism?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        About to be weaponized

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's me learning to enjoy a good rant again
        Someone has to write autistic posts about how stupid people on the internet are. That's the only way you can tell there are still humans on the internet, that it's not just bots slinging low effort shitposts at each other. Someone has to give the people hope
        Posts like yours literally could be (and likely are) made by bots. Search for any post over X characters and autopost a generic, inflammatory response to it.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm not a bot, I'm just questioning the motivation to make crossthread rants about a videogame and how much it has or has not sold.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        newbie shills thinking this is reddit or facebook

  46. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Their fans aren't gamers but gay nerds. They want to normalize degeneracy and what's better place to start than an already degenerate genre such as tabletop gaming?

  47. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >seething because a game is good
    You're not even qualified to be a kotaku journalist what the frick those games can't be that good

  48. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >These two have the biggest marketing pushes I've ever seen in vidya.
    Are you 7 years old? Like really? Just because Ganker had threads about them isn't the same as "big marketing pushes"

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Companies have been doing viral marketing on Ganker for over a decade and if you've been here long enough you can really tell when it's happening. The majority of the board doesn't like BG3, doesn't even play it but the threads pop up constantly. The posters in there use vocabulary that feels really foreign if you've been here for a while.

      Another example where this happened was the witcher 3 but that was probably way before your time.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The majority of the board doesn't like BG3
        I wish Ganker required an IQ test to post so single digit IQ idiots like you could be kept off the internet for the good of everyone.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You're a fricking idiot. The game has had a peak of 870,000 people on Steam alone and you think the devs are shilling on here because "I don't like it, so nobody else must like it". Literal main character syndrome.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          This is a shill, just look at how the pivots from anons point about marketers shilling the games into the devs shilling the game, just to make it look ridiculous.

          Classic shill tactic

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            The pilpul is strong

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The majority of the board doesn't like BG3, doesn't even play it but the threads pop up constantly. The posters in there use vocabulary that feels really foreign if you've been here for a while.
        >vocabulary that feels really foreign if you've been here for a while.
        Time to go outside anon

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >everyone is a shill
        >surely no one can be excited for the biggest rpg release of the decade
        >the 875,000 people playing on steam are obviously fake
        >people discussing video games on the video games are just marketers
        Anon, it is time to go outside for a walk.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          NOOOO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE israeliteS GAVE GORILION COPIES TO SPREAD THE NEW troony ORDER, NUMBERS DONT MATTER!!!!!!

  49. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >These two have the biggest marketing pushes I've ever seen in vidya.
    Are you sure about that?

  50. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >These two have the biggest marketing pushes I've ever seen in vidya.

    Are those the only two games you've seen then?

  51. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    thats such a bullshit statement that it instantly evokes the question whether or not it is you who is somehow paid, as stupid as that would be.

    pathfinder and D&D do not belong to the same company, moron.

  52. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >owlkeks
    >marketing
    I wish, the biggest marketing pathfinder games had was mandalore making a review about them. I dont think i anyone even mentions rogue trader.
    Also, frick off, go back to your movie game slop you homosexual

  53. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    .

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >that brief window of the internet where you could not fricking avoid the incessant le prepare to le die dudes xD horse shit
      I'd take another month of bearsex spam just to erase this

  54. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm still salty at pathfinder campaign, the worst fricking thing I experienced

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Wrath is all high mountains and deep valleys as far as plot quality goes, Kingmaker was like a stroll across rolling hilly plains.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I didn't play kingmaker.
        wrath was all valley and nothing else. I was intrigued by the opening but never regained interest to find out what actually happened. stopped playing 8hrs after entering open world, game isn't good.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >didn't actually get into the mythic stuff
          >feels qualified to make sweeping statements on a plot he admits he never finished
          yeah, I'm on Ganker
          at least you opened with admitting you didn't play it instead of leading me on for 8 posts

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Kingmaker was like a stroll across rolling hilly plains
        I liked kingmaker, but the game was all over the place, especially after the coronation. Playing it felt like 40 hour game trapped inside of an 100 hour game. Nuggets of content trapped between endless kingdom management time waste and copy pasted locations

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm one of those vile lizardpeople who actually liked managing the barony, though it could have been a lot more involved.
          I even sort of like Wrath's HoMM-lite combat, but again, they coulda done more with it.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I didnt mind the management as a concept, but it was just so poorly thought out. I finished up everything before ch 6 started and was left with 200+ days of literally nothing else to do but press skip 200+ times. Similar thing happened to me between ch 4 and 5, but then i was playing catch up with all the upgrades so it was kinda fine

            this board itself.
            >enter succ thread
            >someone mention pathfinder has some succubus and you get to make one of your gf.
            >entire thread devolves into shitflinging
            i had to play the game after that to see what the fuss was all about

            And did you like it?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              yeah. i have already done 3 playthroughs of it. 8/10 game. Kingmaker is better in the exploration department tho.

              did you rike it? and did you romance Arue

              of course i fricking did. and i genuinely
              liked it and did it again.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          It felt like a weird Chinese mobile game inside a great cprg. You can completely skip it from the menu but it locks you out of some endings. I just skipped it with a mod that doesn't cuck you.

  55. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    who tf marketed pathfinder? that shit's a niche game ever since release.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      /v/
      I heard about people ragequitting because of bug swarms shortly after kingmaker released, and thought that sounded hilarious and people must be moronic, then I got my shit pushed in by bug swarms

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Low IQ people think that because someone on Ganker mentioned it, its a massive conspiracy to trick all of humanity into playing a game. Its a really odd kind of pathetic.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      this board itself.
      >enter succ thread
      >someone mention pathfinder has some succubus and you get to make one of your gf.
      >entire thread devolves into shitflinging
      i had to play the game after that to see what the fuss was all about

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Arue is too diabetic for my taste, and Camellia's too evil
        Can't a man just have his autistic Amiri wife?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Just frick one then sacrifice her for power
          Embrace lichdom

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Just frick one then sacrifice her for power
            I can't do that, I'm the oldschool ride or die power of oneitis brand of autism

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Flesh is temporary
              Power is eternal

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                mess me with that gay ass shit. i rather be an Angel than be a bony ass lich freak

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't mind being a skeleton, skeletons are cool. But I wouldn't want to have to sacrifice someone just to be one.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you don't have too sacrifice to become Lich. you can just not sacrifice them if you want but Zach will start telling you how much of homosexual pussy you are and that you should beg for your phylactery now. also the romance leaves you after you become a skeleton because you don't have a pp

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >also the romance leaves you after you become a skeleton because you don't have a pp
                They wanted you to bone them, but once you become all bone they get upset. Wack

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's where the cool part comes in, none of Wrath's romances are to my taste
                So I guess Zach will just have to call me a loser with no game and no sacrifice

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >No b***hez
                >No power
                >No pp
                Check out this loser boneboy

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >retcons your entire life and achievements
                please be patient, i have lawtism

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Post the 'didn't happen' image

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Perfect

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Amiri wife
          Ehh, her personal quest really soured me on her. Too much on the nose bullshit, especially when you see another barbarian tribe that has 0 of that muh patriarchy bullshit

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Paizo OC, please understand

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          i am with you on that. Arue is cute and likeable enough but beyond that she is not that great. it's also telling that the other two option are just batshit insane evil girls and the beyond moronic granny which still makes me seethe because she stole the flag and destroyed Drezen.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I can sort of chalk Galfrey up to gap moe at a stretch because she's the equivalent of stretching a teenage girl's late teens over a century. My problem with romancing Galfrey is there's no fricking content for it. You get a third party romance until the last act.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              that's also my biggest problem with her. I did a legend run specifically to frick her only to forget about her halfway after act 2 and romance Arue again. It was for the best because Arue has the best demon->legend interaction in the game.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm with Deskari on Iomedae. She's a sanctimonious slag, Legend sounded very cool until I found out you get it by discarding your power on her say-so.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                What the frick is that Heath

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >on her say-so.
                WRONG! You can have Legend dialogue before even meeting her.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Interesting, I haven't seen that myself

                What the frick is that Heath

                ganchung

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >She's a sanctimonious slag
                you should be thanking god they didn't add her tooting scene from the tabletop
                >t you get it by discarding your power on her say-so.
                Arue gives you another reason to go legend or golden scalie if you are romancing her bro. girl outright helps you destroy the profane gift from nocticula and even calls her shit

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >her tooting scene from the tabletop
                I am very aware of the tooting quiz
                Maybe playing something neutral evil being redeemed by Arue over the course of the game could be fun, if I can withstand the inevitable toothache

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >her tooting scene from the tabletop
                oh frick, don't remind me about this
                it is one of the dumbest things I have read
                I bet about 98% of parties wiped there
                >answer the question
                BWWRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM TAKE 10d6 SONIC DAMAGE
                >don't answer the question
                BWWRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM TAKE 10d6 SONIC DAMAGE
                >start arguing like a moron in front of a literal goddess
                VERY GOOD

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                don't forget that you also take -4 to -6 WIS and INT damage. only way Iomedae can argue with you is too bring you down to her lvl of stats

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Aroden's death and it's consequences has been a disaster for Golarion

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                it was so dumb that the entire paizo forum was shitting on them for this. so much so that the new 2e remaster for the ap is not even gonna include it from what i heard. they are also gonna add some things from the vidya to the ap too

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                the way game progresses is quite different in the crpg and ttrpg, I wonder what will they take from it

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                just some characters and story beats. I've heard that they added the twins in the tt. don't know how true this is tho.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Never did go legend, only completed angel and romance Arue in my one and only playthrough. worth doing a legend playthrough as a demon or lich?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                sure, why not? legend is a powerhouse if you combine 2 full bab class together. ideally you should go demon->Legend and romance Arue for some very good interaction.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >that image
                Frick, I love big dick knights in armour, yet after making one I wish I chose archer with a big bow. The opposite also happens. How does one reconcile being such a homosexual?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        did you rike it? and did you romance Arue

  56. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >durr where are the videos shilling a new new expansion/patch/league/hero/chamption/operator?
    >where are the videos b***hing how a patch ruined the game?
    Lost cause

  57. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What about elden ring spam for months before and after release, same with AC6 aka game only mentally ill fromdrones care about.

  58. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You can say that with a straight face after Diablo, Zelda and every fricking Mario game being shilled here 24/7 for the past year?
    Lmao.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's okay when Nintendo does it tho.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Diablo
      This is the only game i truly believe was shilled here. Notice how theres almost 0 threads a month after release

  59. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >These two have the biggest marketing pushes I've ever seen in vidya.
    They have nothing on any COD, assassin's creed, farcry, or Skyrim. I have no idea why you are seething that BG3 is successful.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      /misc/ got extremely triggered over bear so they are just making shit up
      I don't understand seething about WoTR though, the game had a very small budget and companions were based (you have an unironic Waffen SS gnome that generally offers you the best advice)

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >le /misc/
        Shut the frick up Black person and stop (You) baiting, it's fricking tiring seeing you shit up every thread.

  60. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >pathfinder
    >biggest marketing pushes you've ever seen
    You clearly haven't seen much then, because apart fromn like 3 20k views trailers pathfinder hasn't marketed fricking anything
    >NO BUT LE SHILLS
    lmao.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      haven't you heard anon? Putin himself is shilling this game to fund the ukrainian war. atleast that's what I've heard from some posters here.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      it was shilled obnoxiously on Ganker, most high budget russian games are shilled by ziggers here(not sure if for free or paid marketing), same with Atomic Heart, low effort coomer bait threads on every board for weeks which suddenly stop after release. I guess Pathfinder is an exception and people still talk about it cause its genuinely a decent game.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >high budget
        it was a kickstarter game

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >it was shilled obnoxiously on Ganker, most high budget russian games
        first, it was a kickstarter game. second, no one was talking and shilling this game during the early days unless you think a game being released during launch day shouldn't be talked about in Ganker

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >unless you think a game being released during launch day shouldn't be talked about in Ganker
          No game should be discussed on Ganker, only anime and literature threads are any good

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Average Ganker anon everyone. although you are right. most irrelevant topics have better and more civil discussion than about game here.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              The same is true for other boards, on topic threads are never good. I imagine if board names got switched around for April fools thread quality would increase by 200%.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          i was talking about WotR and it had the most obvious shill campaign ever

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Or consider this:
            People liked kingmaker so were hyped for wotr

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >People aren't allowed to like games
            Explain

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              this is Ganker. you are not allowed to like anything here

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Fairs.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They only had 50k players peak too, if anything Owlcat marketing sucks dick or they simply can't afford marketing.

  61. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >marketing
    >pathfinder
    Where did they get the money for marketing? This is a poor studio from Moscow that begged on kickstarter during development. They couldn't even pay for a place in the "Best RPG of the Year" nomination on VGA.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >from Moscow
      Comrade! You must be severely mistaken, you see, we are a cypriot studio! We are true greek nationalists, blyat.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Comrade you heard wrong. we are patriotic cypriot company and hate russian homophobes.hail Allah/Zeus!

        I know. This does not negate the fact that the studio was founded in Moscow by former Nival employees, and all their budgets are equal to the budget that Western game studios spend on coffee.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Comrade you heard wrong. we are patriotic cypriot company and hate russian homophobes.hail Allah/Zeus!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Pathfinder games werent made for mass appeal. Just the character creator alone is enough to repel most people.

  62. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why does Ganker constantly cope with insane conspiracy boogeyman instead of simply accepting that some games really are just that good/popular?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Why does Ganker blabla
      And from which shithole of the web did your sorry ass crawl out of?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >you are not allowed to make observations about the board you use

  63. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I know tendies get upset when games release not on their tablet but this isn’t healthy.

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