Is Raid Shadow Legends a money laundering scheme?

[Glitch]

I have yet to meet anybody who actually plays the game. Nobody quotes lines from the game or makes references to things in the game. As well as the lack of fan porn, as some have pointed out(the true sign of no fans).

[pinja]

To be fair, how many people have you met that played Final Fantasy or even Grand Theft Auto? I know people play GTA, I see it online, but I know only a handful of people who "confessed" doing so eye to eye. One guy I knew of who played World of Warcraft. Maybe Raid is the Nickelback of games? Everybody claims to hate it, yet there's an LP lurking in a locked box under the bed.

[EvenBaldobombHasAJob]

people must be playing it if they can afford to hold half my favorite youtubers at gunpoint to talk about how "great" it is or that they totally really play it.

[Ultimo Gallos]

I know one person that plays it. But no clue how he learned about it. He is never on youtube and besides maybe seeing an ad on FB no clue how he learned about it.

[Zombie Mod is not a ghoul.]

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[agent817]

This is among the many typical YouTube advertisements that I see. I never played it, but I often associate it with the likes of Manscape, Surfshark VPN, etc.

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

This is genuinely a good point, it means nobody cares enough about their roster of characters.

[BJ Sturgeon]

I was curious and checked download numbers on the Google Play Store. A game I'm actually playing, Empires & Puzzles, has five times the downloads (50 M compared to 10 M), and I've actually met two people in real life who play that one. To me, Raid is just a YouTube sponsor.

[Deleted]

People have made more memes about stuff tangential to Raid: Shadow Legends (YouTubers shilling it, clickbait advertisement artwork and language, microtransactions) than the game itself because the game itself... sucks. Everything about the game is designed to take your money.

[Natural Born Farmer]

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[Cyno]

No one makes porn of the Raid Shadow Legends characters because there's already World of Warcraft and Elder Scrolls porn.

[Mayonnaise]

My favorite is Simon Whistler making fun of them on his Brain Blaze.

[H-Virus]

I downloaded it a few years ago, played it for an hour, determined there was absolutely nothing that set it apart from two dozen other mobile MMOs I'd already played before, and uninstalled it.

[Natural Born Farmer]

But seriously, if it helps Todd In The Shadows and Finn McKenty make their stuff, I don't care.

The shilling in the videos sucks, but it isn't forcing me to play the game. If it frees them up to make more content, I hope they stick around to keep paying them.

With that said, videos where the creator directly shills for the game still seem to have ads more often than not, and that rubs me the wrong way.

[Cyno]

Todd in the Shadow Legends.

[Fundertaker]

It began the Internet Historian Ad-Verse, so I'm ok with it.

Nord VPN-Man is better than Shadow Man though.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Sept 24, 2022 18:47:37 GMT -5 Fundertaker said:

It began the Internet Historian Ad-Verse, so I'm ok with it.

Nord VPN-Man is better than Shadow Man though.

I keep hoping to see more Raycon Man or Mother Man.

[EvenBaldobombHasAJob]

Sept 24, 2022 17:54:05 GMT -5 Natural Born Farmer said:

But seriously, if it helps Todd In The Shadows and Finn McKenty make their stuff, I don't care.

The shilling in the videos sucks, but it isn't forcing me to play the game. If it frees them up to make more content, I hope they stick around to keep paying them.

With that said, videos where the creator directly shills for the game still seem to have ads more often than not, and that rubs me the wrong way.

Finn somehow almost makes it sound fun. Dude missed his calling as a Don Draper-esque ad man.

[A Platypus Rave]

Sept 24, 2022 6:50:21 GMT -5 pinja said:

To be fair, how many people have you met that played Final Fantasy or even Grand Theft Auto? I know people play GTA, I see it online, but I know only a handful of people who "confessed" doing so eye to eye. One guy I knew of who played World of Warcraft. Maybe Raid is the Nickelback of games? Everybody claims to hate it, yet there's an LP lurking in a locked box under the bed.

I know plenty of people that admit to both, as well as WoW.

outside of Candy Crush I don't think I've heard anyone really playing too many mobile games.

Hell Mobile games are apparently on a massive decline.

[schma]

Sept 25, 2022 3:10:56 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Sept 24, 2022 6:50:21 GMT -5 pinja said:

To be fair, how many people have you met that played Final Fantasy or even Grand Theft Auto? I know people play GTA, I see it online, but I know only a handful of people who "confessed" doing so eye to eye. One guy I knew of who played World of Warcraft. Maybe Raid is the Nickelback of games? Everybody claims to hate it, yet there's an LP lurking in a locked box under the bed.

I know plenty of people that admit to both, as well as WoW.

outside of Candy Crush I don't think I've heard anyone really playing too many mobile games.

Hell Mobile games are apparently on a massive decline.

My impression with mobile games was that many of those who are most active mobile gamers are not who you would typically identify as 'gamers'. Essentially, there not being a ton of overlap with other forms of gaming.