This Tinder Swindler Gets Guys To Buy Nier: Automata Then Ghosts Them
There are any number reasons why you might choose to play a particular video game. A recommendation from a friend, an ad on TV, or it's on sale and you're looking for something new to play. Or, you know, you might have been convinced to pick up and play a copy of something by a stranger on Tinder who then ghosted you once the transaction was complete.
That's how at least 22 men got into Nier: Automata. Ennja revealed on Twitter a short while ago that she would “roam around on Tinder and get guys to buy Nier: Automata.” After they bought it, she'd then ghost them, leaving the proud new owners of a great new game wondering what it is they did wrong. On the bright side, at least they all had something new and interesting to do while they mulled it over.
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Ennja clarified that she never offered anything up in return for them buying and trying what is presumably her favorite game. She would simply talk about it a lot with whoever she matched with, and Tinder being Tinder, most of those matches rushed to buy a copy of the game. If the majority of people on Tinder weren't out to get one thing, it would actually be quite sweet.
Hey, maybe some of those 22 new Automata owners were doing it for the right reasons. To give them something more to talk about with their new match only to find Ennja had disappeared. Her mission had already been accomplished. As she highlights at the end of her viral tweet, “high sales mean more Taro games.” Yoko Taro has actually learned of Ennja's exploits, replying to news of the 22 additional Tinder-assisted sales with “glory to mankind”.
Hopefully some of the 22 men who bought Nier: Automata enjoyed the
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