I’m, honestly, not surprised. It’s like, what were they expect?

  • Ikelton@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I won’t link it because it’s a reddit link. But there’s damning footage of large pixel circles of white or random colors spreading at the same instant, in a way that wouldn’t be possible by regular users. And these pixels don’t have an attached username, it’s like the canvas has been totally reset. Bots would show a new username.

  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They expected to show a large influx of visits when they create an event. They will show user counts and to the result to their investors. It’s all calculated and we’re all falling for it.

    • LUHG@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Surely any decent investment means they research the company. That’d be stupid business decisions. Although, Investors are immoral.

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Investors are immoral. And they research the company but they don’t necessarily tour the whole thing. If they research the numbers. Then they see this. Now the whole gate is towards Spez. I bet we will soon see an announcement where he steps down (with a bonus) and the investors can be reassured that it’s all good. Plus they get huge visit numbers.

      • 👽🍻👽@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        People that keep making this dumbass “engagement” claim have no goddamn idea what they’re talking about. Nobody is falling for jack shit. The “engagement” of people going on to place to troll is miniscule. Like you said, half of us aren’t looking at this on Reddit. It’s being broadcast everywhere else and the tech outlets that an investor will see are reading about how much the user base fucking hates the product.

        • crowsby@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          I mean I do analytics on site engagement metrics professionally, like as my job that pays me money, and based on that and past instances of r/place, I can make an educated guess that:

          • They were desperate to improve July usage numbers because projections were looking shitty after the events of the past month.

          • r/place has traditionally been a good way to juice engagement numbers

          • They pulled a lever they knew would generate the results they needed

          Is it temporary? Sure. But this buys them some time and August’s numbers are August’s problem.

          Here’s are the stats from a previous instance of r/place:

          Social platform Reddit re-introduced its collaborative social experiment r/Place on April 1, leading to the highest daily active users (DAUs) its mobile app has ever seen

          So yeah, they’ll get the juice they need, probably, but the fact that they were compelled to even need to pull that lever says a lot, imo.

          • kbotc@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            I mean, as an Ad Tech guy, the problem is that they’re at the stage where they need to increase revenue, not just engagement numbers. Look at Twitter: The dollars can simply flow out of an ad supported social media company and to the big boys fairly easily.

      • exoplanetary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It’s Deep Rock Galactic, which is actually a really solid game. People just keep turning it into “Deep Cock Galactic” lmao

        • voluble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I’d be curious to know your experience with that game. Me and some friends have been playing it and the grind is just insane, to the point that I can’t really enjoy it because progress feels so glacial. Whenever people speak positively about it I feel like I must be missing something.

          • exoplanetary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            I picked Driller initially and stuck with it. Progression felt good. Once I got a promotion I tried out other classes, and slowly made them to promotion level. I think the main thing you’re missing though is that DRG isn’t really meant to be a game based around progression. Unlocking new weapons and overclocks helps, sure, but most of DRG’s progression to me is learning how to manage your resources effectively and mastering how to take down different kinds of bugs. Also, make sure you’re doing assignments! Otherwise, you’re not actually progressing beyond leveling up, and so progress will feel glacial.

        • 👽🍻👽@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Aha lol. Well, that clears that up. Guess I wasn’t seeing things when it looked like My Little Pony was My Little Penis.

    • athos77@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure where they got their information, but The Independent says

      Reddit Place is set to continue for the next four days, allowing users to contribute to its evolving creation.