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Anyone else randomly receive black and green postcards that are art of an ARG Event and say "THEY'RE COMING"? (Likely Fortnite Related)
- Thread starter IDontBeatGames
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Marketing firm has addresses from random companies.
Someone pointed out that anybody who might've bought something from iam8bit probably got added to the list along with anyone who is in the fortnite.
Ever bought anything from iam8bit?
I tried to report it 4 hours ago to have it moved to Gaming side and have the thread title changed so people would chill on the threadshitting but nothing ever happened.
EDIT: Yay, thanks mod!
I play 725 hours of Fortnite and I get nothing. They have my address and everything. A little mad atm.
Still looks like a cool ARG. Kinda reminds me of the Tron one a few years back.
Still looks like a cool ARG. Kinda reminds me of the Tron one a few years back.
Does Epic really need to go to all these lengths in order to get people to play one of the most popular games out there? If they stopped all advertising of Fortnite, it would still do just fine.
I think the big thing here, is that it's NOT even a new game or anything. It's just "hey we're adding aliens to Fortnite", essentially. That's like, the equivalent of... lemme take a similar analogy... doing a similar ARG that's animal themed (rather than this being space themed), and then finding out "hey we're adding dogs to CoD Warzone!" I get that Fortnite has done it before, but to go the lengths to send it out to soooo many people and then even make posters in cities, like, it's just saying "we're adding (new stuff) in our (already existing) game!"
it really isn't. ARGs are all about obscene attention to detail. You could still be right but they're different enough to be coincidental.
Edit: this video looks much more like the same symbol
With everything else, nitpicking one speculated symbol out of the rest seems unnecessary.
Ooohhh juicy new video! Nice.
Oh nvm that's from SypherPK.
This is a lot of work unless they're starting another chapter. The game is getting stale quickly: I uninstalled for the first time since starting 3 years ago. I know I'm not the only one. Hell my kid used to be obsessed but now the word "FortNite" makes him physically revolted.
It's still a huge game bu it needs a refresher.
It's still a huge game bu it needs a refresher.
Has the source being iam8bit been confirmed though?
It makes absolutely ZERO sense why my wife got the 2 cards if not.
It makes absolutely ZERO sense why my wife got the 2 cards if not.
I wonder if this iam8bit connection just means that... they sold on their customer mailing list and it got incorporated into a big list of "addresses of people interested in video games" 😬
I know a lot of charities pass donor information around, so wouldn't totally surprise me.
I know a lot of charities pass donor information around, so wouldn't totally surprise me.
Customer data gets sold and passed around soooooo much, so yeah this is the most likely scenario.
They have no idea how funny it is my wife got them (and my kids and I didn't get them).
Talk about a waste of money 🤣
Because they're fucking stupid, that's why. Who doesn't know what Coca Cola is? There are people who aren't even born yet that will absolutely know of Coca Cola without a single advertisement hitting them.
If anything, I'd say food and drink adverts are the MOST successful. "Hey that sounds cool and refreshing right now, I should go pick up a Coke!"
I got the card as well.
I threw it away because...it had no sender, no other text to say what it was talking about....
Edit: Houston, TX here
Also - never played Fortnite in my life so I'm not sure what list I am on.
I threw it away because...it had no sender, no other text to say what it was talking about....
Edit: Houston, TX here
Also - never played Fortnite in my life so I'm not sure what list I am on.
Naw. There's a thread in gaming community for us and a Discord server.
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I like how there were eight pages in a single day, but the moment people started realizing it was Fortnite related it dropped down to two pages in a week. 😂
I just got one of these in Ireland today. I think I've played all of about 2 Fortnite games years ago.
"But but the marketing brought awareness to a wider group of people that don't play Fortnite!" (Yet, was quickly forgotten...) I just saw my card sitting on the mail pile this morning and was like "oh yeah, that thing". Already out of mind, but was fun on here while it lasted.
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I have nothing against Fortnite, but there is an air of mystery that seems necessary to maintain interest in an ARG that is completely lost when this type of uber-popular non-narrative driven game is the focus. There is no story to delve into, and you become acutely aware that you're simply the target of a cynical marketing ploy.
Don't know how to search within threads but was TheYetee already mentioned? Because I just got one of these cards and I am 100% sure they got my address from TheYetee. Why?
Because they addressed it to my co-worker who lives in a whole different country, but they sent it to my address. It so happens that I have a Yetee Stickermoon subscription for that co-worker, under her name, but sent to my address because she is in the middle of moving.
Not really amused they sold my data.
Also I have never even booted up Fortnite.
Because they addressed it to my co-worker who lives in a whole different country, but they sent it to my address. It so happens that I have a Yetee Stickermoon subscription for that co-worker, under her name, but sent to my address because she is in the middle of moving.
Not really amused they sold my data.
Also I have never even booted up Fortnite.
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Do you understand what happens when you check the box that states you do not wish your details to be passed on to third parties/for marketing purposes?
In this scenario you describe above, Epic got what they thought is your friends address, likely based from the website you mentioned as their marketing department has probably been contacted by whoever runs that site to inform them that the demographics that make up the site are probably 18-24 year olds with disposable income interested in games/"geek" culture (ie. the perfect Fortnite playing audience)
You did not factor into the decision or the targeting. Epic doesn't care if you have never played Fortnite, they are targeting your friend.
I'm struggling to see what is "disgusting" about a fairly basic marketing campaign.
