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.

  • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    23 hours ago

    Hotline Miami. Frustrating and tedious.

    I generally don’t take gaming recommendations from people I know because I’ve been burned too many times.

    • Shrouded0603@feddit.org
      3·
      19 hours ago

      I loved the fast and rather unique gameplay but it definitely isnt for everyone. For me personally I didnt mind the trial and error and really liked how the Game presentation.