AGDC08: Tobold is famous

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Sep 172008
 

Margaret Wallace just put up a screenshot of his blog as an illustration of the need to go after bloggers in order to persuade users to come to your site. 🙂

  7 Responses to “AGDC08: Tobold is famous”

  1. mandrill says:
    September 17, 2008 at 4:51 pm

    Means that there’s hope for the rest of us then 😛

  2. Tipa says:
    September 17, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    I think bloggers give a perspective on games that gamers value. If you do a Google search on a new game, likely the first things you might see about a game are the official gaming sites. They will typically all say pretty much the same things, but you’ll hardly ever find out much more than what the marketing department wants you to know.

    It’s the bloggers that get overjoyed, critical, speculative, dismissive, and do it loudly enough so thta even if you don’t agree with them, at least you know what the issues are.

    A game with an enthusiastic marketing department but no bloggers is probably a game without very much buzz.

    Sure, I’m a blogger, I’m probably overstating our influence, but then again, I AM a blogger. The two things every blogger has… is an opinion and an inflated sense of self-importance 🙂

  3. Raph says:
    September 17, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    Of course bloggers are valuable. But it’s basically the same point as when we used to point game marketers at specific forums instead. So that’s nothing new… all that changes is who we sell to… 😉

  4. Taymar says:
    September 18, 2008 at 3:07 am

    I’d take it a step further – what has changed is the interface.

    Blogs are “outside of the channels” of a forum in the same way that twitter is “outside of the channels” of IRC.

  5. Ola Fosheim Grøstad says:
    September 18, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Well, if he wasn´t famous before, he certainly is now after you blogged about him…

  6. geldonyetich says:
    September 21, 2008 at 10:09 pm

    Good for him. Tobold’s one of the good ones.

  7. Carmen Vj says:
    September 25, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    Bloggers are indeed very valuable. I like it and yes there is hope. Awesome.

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