• @[email protected]
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    20 days ago

    Why should it be an advertising campaign? Using a made-up name, filling videos with watermarks and pushing a crypto meme coin?

    I don’t even see how this could be something good for them. They are going to officially show it in a week and I don’t think they need more hype than that they already have.

    These are just people who are trying to make money with crypto.

    • just another devA
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      1720 days ago

      The very first GTA was promoted through “outrage” that they stirred up themselves. I trust their marketing department about as far as I can throw them.

      • @[email protected]
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        820 days ago

        But it turns out you are actually Andre the Giant, so you can throw them very far and thus trust them a lot.

        • @[email protected]
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          520 days ago

          Andre the Giant has been dead for over 30 years so I’m not aure he can thow as far as you’re expecting.

      • Cethin
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        120 days ago

        They still market with outrage, but not like this I’m pretty certain. The Netflix thing I believe is on purpose to generate outrage. They had people posting all over complaining that it’s behind a paywall. You don’t get marketing that good, even if you pay for it. The leak though? It doesn’t feel like something they’d do.

      • nawa
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        120 days ago

        It was a very different company during first GTA.

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      320 days ago

      The issue with this theory is the crypto scam, but aside from that I would guess that this way they can keep their players engaged with the game since they don’t like sharing anything at all and gamers want everything as soon as possible