Why does /v/ pretend ecelebs help sell games? Is it just because

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>>385204987
Man, brazilian sure is cancer of vidya.

I don't know what language is that.

>>385204987
They help sell multiplayer games. No one is going to buy a single player game they watched someone play.

>>385204987
hahaha stop being a jealous no life faggot retard
sage for e celeb cancer

>>385205246
Cuckiest post I ever saw

>>385204987
The question is, how many copies would have been sold if no let's players had played it?

>>385205089
It's mexican

>>385204987
>cherry picking
The appeal is to watch someone else freak out.
Nobody cares about freaking themselves out.

>>385204987
Because memes.
/v/ will also tell you that PUBG is popular ONLY because of streamers.

I bought dark souls because of Northernlion's let's play back in 2012
I now wish youtubers never touched the game
nothing against NL though

>>385204987
I dislike let's players but this image is idiotic and doesn't prove anything. It's a shitty horror game, Steam is saturated with these so no one gives a fuck. We also have no fucking idea how many copies they would've sold without the let's play shit, half of those sales could come from pewdiepie/markiplier/whoever's viewers and we wouldn't know.

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>>385204987
It depends on the type of game. It didn't help in the case of the OP game because it was a short, completely linear """game""" and people would derrive more pleasure from watching their preferred virtual surrogate friend play it than play it themselves.

It DOES help with shit like PUBG, Rainbow Six Seige, and Overwatch though because those are ever-expanding zeitgeisty multiplayer games.

>>385204987
You are retarded and your image is just as retarded as you, as it proves literally nothing.

AAA games sell a shitton even without being shilled by LPers, yet itbdoesn't imply LPer shilled games didn't sell better due to their shilling.
Who's to say this scream thing wouldn't have sold only 1k copies if streamers didn't shill it?

Seriously, OP, you seem to be quite a brainlet, so stop trying to be clever.
I mean, just look at all the retards who constantly ask "oh hey, game x looked really cool on stream, is it worth it?" tards who post here. Now imagine all the even more normalfag tards who watch streams. The best consumers are those, who are dumb as shit and buy everything, those tend to be easily manipulated as well.

>>385204987
No one's going to buy your shitty (((((horror))))) game just because you graduated digiPen

>>385205779
>and Overwatch

Yes I'm sure it was only popular because of lets players and not because it was the next big Blizzard game

My god, kill yourself

>>385204987
depends on the let's player
if that's a "game of the day" con artist, it will be quickly forgotten about, especially for a jump scare / telltale game where the experience is literally better when you watch someone else play
if that's a "here's a game I like" guy, it will have more attention and more intention of purchase

>>385206053
>It can only be one or the other, the two are mutually exclusive
Are you retarded?

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Explain this game's sales without ecelebs
Oh wait you can't

>>385206134
I really can't, especially with the price. It's fucking baffling.

>>385206134
I'm still trying to figure out who's worse, ironic homos or ironic weebs. Then again some people are both anyway so we should just gas both groups to get it over with.

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>make a game which content can be shown in its entirery in a 10 minute clickbait video
>surprised when people don't buy it

>>385204987
People don't care what game streamers play, they literally just watch for the cult of personality.
It's literally icing on the cake if it's a game the person is even tangibly interested in.

>>385206212
Ironic homo weebs

>>385206114
Lets look at previous Blizzard games prior to lets players...

World of Warcraft
Warcraft 3
Diablo 2
etc

Hmmm, all seem super popular to me

>>385207006
So I guess my point went completely over your head; maybe my words were too big for you? Retard.