Bigred's Video Game Thread

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So it's a game. Then started the skin gambling. Then, these jackasses would upload huge wins and reactions on their sites, failing to mention that it was their sites. Investigation quickly followed, and then they would claim it wasn't theirs, then claim amnesia, then eventually uploading apologies as they figured out that yes, indeed, they owned the damn sites (and had admin accounts. Like lee jones at pokerstars, against you, headsup.)

This is basically the tip of the iceberg, a whole saga ensued

Is the tldr that they were marketing fake huge wins to promote their own skin gambling sites?

I'm asking because that's a common tactic in gambling markets. I've added this video to my queue regardless. This type of thing is super interesting to me because I'm quite involved in the larger online gambling industry.

Edit: So I had a look at the first several minutes of that video, and it's pretty much what I expected. I've heard bits and pieces about how skin gambling works, but I've never really sat down and looked into it deeply.

With regards to the making fake videos about winning (and sometimes losing) large amounts as a marketing tactic, my understanding is that they were pretty stupid with how they were so transparent about it. They took no precautions whatsoever to make the story they were trying to tell look legitimate. I have no moral/ethical qualms with the basic idea of what they were doing, but I do have a huge issue with how poorly executed it was. It's just plain terrible.

With that having been said, my understanding of marketing and the lengths to which things like this happen in virtually (no pun intended) all other sectors and markets probably makes me not care too much about it. That general conversation gets out of the scope of video games pretty quickly, and I might make a post about it in the randomness thread to continue that particular conversation there.

Thank you for the video and brief explanation.