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> What if Humvees become the worst vehicles in the game because of balancing reasons? If I were the owner of the brand I'd be pissed. Pretty much exactly what
by Alupis 7y ago
> What if Humvees become the worst vehicles in the game because of balancing reasons? If I were the owner of the brand I'd be pissed.
Pretty much exactly what happened with the Glock in the Counter Strike PC game.
- babypuncher 7y agoAnd yet nobody bases their decision whether or not to buy a Glock based on its performance in Counter-Strike. It's a non-issue.
- WaxProlix 7y agoI grew up playing Counter-Strike and have in the past few years bought a few guns; despite their solid reputation and the fact that they do what I want, I never even considered a Glock. Was this causal? Who knows, but I wouldn't rule it out.
- macintux 7y agoGiven how effective advertising is, I think it's safer to assume that such a relationship does exist for some. We're all subject to a wide variety of unconscious biases.
- projektfu 7y agoI assume that a gamer would want a Heckler & Koch VP9 just for the appearance.
- Alupis 7y agoWell, there was a noticeable surge of new Mini14 owners at my local range during the peak of PUBG (Player Unknown's Battlegrounds) battle royale game.
- tomatotomato37 7y agoGlock does kind of have a reputation as a low-end plastic Walmart gun. I doubt Counter-Strike is causing that reputation, but it certainly isn't helping
- Alupis 7y agoIt also has a reputation of being one of the most reliable, simplistic and easy to use/maintain guns used by military and law enforcement around the world. So much so that other highly reliable Striker Fire handguns all basically cloned the Glock design (Smith & Wesson's M&P line, among others). I'd bet there's influence coming from both ends - those who used them in video games and decided their first gun just couldn't possibly be a Glock, and those who see Special Operations guys using them and decided their first gun just had to be a Glock.
- kyuudou 7y agoYea I was gonna say, most real gun owners understand that reliability, recognizability and using ammo that's very common and available trump anything else. Glock 9mm is always a good choice.
- alkonaut 7y agoThey were really concerned about the use of the gun names in the 1.6 era I remember. Guns had alias names for some reason, presumably out of legal concerns.