We too used to live near a lake, in an apartment. Especially for short niche/fad games like this one seems to be, their role is like that of an impulse buy or a comfort food - it has to be a 'click here, pay a dozen bucks, enjoy your stuff immediately' experience without having to bother with making yet another account and installing extra stuff that you have to care about. There was a time in my life where I'd be eager to invest a lot of time and effort just to get a particular game (worldwide distribution of games on floppies and CDs was awkward to say at least) but that's not the case anymore. gog.com for a few games I enjoyed decades ago, but there really has to be a special reason to do so. There are some exceptions for nostalgic reasons that have driven me to e.g. For the makers of the game their game probably is important and special, but for a customer like me it's not, the competition between games for my time is huge, there's so much good stuff out there that there's no possible reason to jump through hoops (even if they're not that difficult) to get to any particular game, so if any particular game is not in the place where it's most covenient for me, it might as well not exist. In any case there are many more other interesting games out there than I have time for, there's some stuff in my Steam library that I have yet to play, so if some games aren't accessible in the way I prefer, then those will be among the games I'll skip. I mean, it's not a big inconvenience, it is an inconvenience, and getting access to yet another game isn't a big benefit if it was on Steam I'd likely try it because it seems interesting and the price is trivial but since it's not available in a way that's convenient for me, why bother?
#UNTITLED GOOSE GAME FANART INSTALL#
I tried Epic store once and didn't have a good experience, so I don't have it right now, it would be a bother to install it and remember the account/password, and in any case I don't want the bother of having my library split among multiple tools, having to remember which game is where, etc. That game is 'nice to have' but not a 'must have' for me, and the inconvenience of having to setup and use another sucky third party game store makes it not worth it. Facebook became ~uncool~ when our parents started using it, and I don't want to see memes become less of a cultural touchstone because of corporations starting to abuse them. I just can't bring myself away from the comparison to how stuff becomes unpopular as soon as your parents start doing it. Ultimately, if it's funny and not forced, then it's going to spread.
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It's antithetical to what I've said previously, but I guess the most effective uses of memes as advertising are so good that you can't tell they're ads. However, I'm sure that this isn't the first time that memes and social media have been used as advertising. I haven't seen a television ad in forever. Personally, it's hard to recognize the time and effort that went into these projects because they were only made to sell fast food Wendy's isn't releasing these projects because they think they're cool, but because they have a bottom line they want to bring up.
#UNTITLED GOOSE GAME FANART SIMULATOR#
The thought of a company 'manufacturing' memes to try and advertise for something just seems like it's taking such a cool form of expression and commodifying it.Īs an example, Wendy's Twitter account has become pretty popular for all their pop culture references and crazy projects like a Dating Simulator and a Tabletop RPG-but at the end of the day, they're advertisements. Just looking at the meme, I immediately think "someone loved this game so much they took the time to create something about it". I can only speak to my opinion on this matter, but I hate the idea of using 'manufactured'-for lack of a better term-fanart and memes as mediums of advertising.
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