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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Marketing to ~~pre-teen~~ gamers must be like shooting fish in a barrel.

Don't even need to do much - Stellar Blade threw some fanservice their way and laughed all the way to the bank. Gamers are stupid.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

Capital G gamers think they are mega smart and some sort of consumer powerhouse who cannot be scammed, and like a lot of people who think they are too smart to be scammed they fall for everything, preorders, fanservice, horse armor, DLC etc etc it all gets gobbled up like slob, no wonder so many fall for the ragebait.