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They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? (lemmy.zip)

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Feel free to replace "friends" with "anyone you know in real life" or even online groups you trust or are close with.

"They":

WOM marketing is highly effective as 88% of consumers trust friend recommendations over traditional media.

and my own personal experience; most games I have bought in the past 10 years have been off of recommendations from r/gamingsuggestions before Reddit went to crap and Lemmy came into existence; and even moreso when it is a personal friend recommending things to me.

Mods, feel free to nuke if this feels too close to advertising or better-suited for !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip (my own community); I mean it more as a discussion piece but I don't run the place.

EDIT: The "not" in the title is optional; I'm asking about both successful and failed recommendations.

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[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 days ago

My cousin's talked me into giving CoD 'one more try' like three times now. It's never worth it. The game is always worse and my cousin also tends to just not play for months after a handful of gaming sessions, so I don't even get the benefit of hanging out.

Generally stopped trying to game with him anymore. Just too flaky.