How many of your friends have heard of GiantBomb?

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#1  Edited By RobotHamster

I was talking with a few of my friends the other day (about games of course) and I bought up that GiantBomb is my favorite game web site out there.  What surprised me was that one of them has heard of GiantBomb and everyone else didn't know what it was!  GiantBomb has a lot of members and probably non-members, but most of the people I know don't come here.  I was thinking about it today so I wanted to see if anyone thinks that GiantBomb should be as well known as gamespot or gametrailers, or should it have a sort of underground cult thing sort of following.  

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#2  Edited By ZombieHunterOG

ive told my close friends of the site and they have accounts now ...

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#3  Edited By Kohe321

I have shown all of them, and most of them use it regularly whenever they need to check out something game-related.

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#4  Edited By Aetos

Told a few of them. Only one comes here on a regular basis though.

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#5  Edited By DanielJW

Two of my friends have heard of Giant Bomb. They found it through Quick Looks and the like.  
 
As for large mainstream following or "under ground cult" following, I'm not sure where I stand. On one hand the large following means the good folk behind the site make more and do better for themselves. Obviously I think that's a good thing, they deserve it since they give us so much useful content.  
 
But on the other hand, it's nice to have a tight-knit community on a site. Generally that get's forfeit as the site grows. It becomes harder to come in to contact with the staff and you see less and less familiar names on the forums. So I'm split.

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#6  Edited By Karmum

None that I have known of.

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#7  Edited By sionweeks

Now and again we read the reviews from The Sun and The Star newspapers and they're usually not that good. I always recommend Giant Bomb, so a few know about it. All my online friends know about it though.

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#8  Edited By C0V3RT

None, I'll shoot links to things I think they'd like but none visit it regularly.
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#9  Edited By hatking

I don't think any of my friends use the site, most of my friends aren't as into games as myself... several of them just flat out don't play games.  I've shown the Quicklooks off before, the Brutal Legend one to a friend who was really looking forward to that game and the Boy And His Blob one to a friend who loved that game as a child.  Most of my friends are ladies though and it is hard to come by girls who talk about gaming openly, althought most of them don't mind it and will even play from time to time it just isn't in their hobbies.
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#10  Edited By Funger

Yeah I have friends who know of Giantbomb.  Mostly because they remember Jeff and Brad from Gamespot and followed them over here.  That's mainly why I'm here now too I suppose. 

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#11  Edited By angelkanarias

None of my friends knew of its existence, they don't even visit it.

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#12  Edited By Alphiehyr

None.

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#13  Edited By zyn

None.

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#14  Edited By Red

None, but then again, all of the people I know who play video games are a plague on society.

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none

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#16  Edited By fugie7

i say about 2 of my friends and one of them already made account here.

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#17  Edited By Branthog

I don't even have any friends who really play games, so the topic would never even come up.

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#18  Edited By FunExplosions
@Red said:
" None, but then again, all of the people I know who play video games are a plague on society. "
Hah. That's how I feel. My friends don't play games. And the kids that I know that are crazy about them are the dumbest shut-ins on Earth.
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#19  Edited By LiquidPrince

Most of them.

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#20  Edited By Linkyshinks

I managed to get near twenty friends to sign up last year, sadly the majority have now left...some of you are still around though. XX
 
You should all go forth and spread the good word like a deranged preacher men, just show them the light - content.    

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#21  Edited By eldiax

They heard because I told them, but none signed up.

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#22  Edited By Venatio

Alot of them know about the site but only one signed up after I told him about it

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#23  Edited By Meltac

None.

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#24  Edited By s-a-n-JR

One of my friends actually. But he's into videogames as much as i am so i'm not suprised.
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#25  Edited By RHCPfan24

I have two friends that are somewhat frequent users here. I don't think I was the one that suggested it to them, they found it somehow, but we talk about it often. They all love it!

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Almost all of my friends know about it and most have made accounts but never go on near as much as I do.

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#27  Edited By ShaunassNZ

Yea my close friends know but I don't want loads of people here to stuff things up. I now know alot of people from recognition like Bucketdeth and RHCfan24 also MattyFTM and CitizenKane. So if there were loads of people I wouldn't know anyone but yea I now know most of the people that post abit on here.

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#28  Edited By ThePhantomnaut

None. Only some go to GameSpot.

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#29  Edited By taccyp

I think maybe 1. None of my friends are into games quite as much as I am.

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#30  Edited By Optiow

Erm...none of mine. They all like games, but I am the only one with accounts on gaming sites.

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#31  Edited By XxBarretxX

None. All the people in my school think both Gamestop & IGN are god. 

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#33  Edited By teptom

2 because I told them about it.

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#34  Edited By nrain

They know of the site, but my friends enjoy playing games not reading about them.

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#35  Edited By zeforgotten

Two signed up, the rest know of it and checks it from time to time. 
They didn't feel the need to make a user though since all they're watching is the videos and reading reviews. 

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#36  Edited By GeneralTurkle

I have recruited all me friends ;]