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Why No Official Google+ Group?

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Posted by: locoman.1974

locoman.1974

Because nobody uses Google+. You never heard anything about it. Facebook is the behemoth.

This one. Companies like Anet don’t use twitter and facebook just because they like them, that’s why we use them (well, some people, I do read twitter but I don’t think I’ve logged to my facebook in over a year other than to like GW2 once), they use it because it increases their visibility a LOT. Anytime you like or share something related to GW2, all your friends see it on their timeline, even if they wouldn’t even know what GW2 is, which is what anet wants, to increase brand awareness and get more people looking at GW2, even if it’s by passing, same with twitter.

And yes, they could do the same with their website (to an extent, they do)… but things on the website only serve as information for those already interested in GW2, which is why they also do interviews and exclusive content for other sites (reddit, mmorpg.com, facebook, etc), because it also reaches those that might not know or be interested in GW2 in the first place.

And which is why they don’t use google+, the effort isn’t worth the results until it becomes MUCH more popular than it is (same with myspace, diaspora, and a great number of other social network services that haven’t reached and most likely never reach the critical mass facebook and twitter have at the moment).

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

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