Online Gaming Discussion Platform PCGAMER.BUZZ to Take on Reddit

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Reddit didn’t become the front page of the internet by accident. They leveraged one of the strongest tools we have available: the ability to have group conversations in an organized way. On Reddit, there’s a community for nearly everything and each one is rich with niche content that people are eager to consume. It’s full of specific information that people have come to rely on.

Over time, we’ve seen people try to compete with Reddit’s ecosystem, but haven’t seen many rise through the crowd. Until now. PCGAMER.BUZZ offers the same kind of niche and specificity that draws people who are looking for content related to PC gaming. Not only that, but they’re also paying users for their engagement within the community.

There’s an old saying going around that says a new product must be 10 times better in order to attract users from an existing one. Maybe that’s why there hasn’t been a strong Reddit competitor before today. PCGAMER.BUZZ is offering financial incentives for people to interact with their content as opposed to Reddit.

Specifically, PCGAMER.BUZZ might be eyeballing a few of the niche Reddit communities that are specific to gaming or, even better, PC gaming. The r/gaming community on Reddit is 28 million people strong, and the r/gamingpc community has 164 thousand members. Imagine what’s going to happen when these people realize they can be getting paid for their engagement. The community effect will drive content creators and curators to potentially make a significant income stream on the side!

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Thus, making the two main differentiators between PCGAMER.BUZZ and Reddit to be specificity and user revenue. Users know exactly what they’re getting when they go to PCGAMER.BUZZ. It’s a constant flow of content that’s solely related to PC gaming. That is to say, no distractions and laser focus, which goes a long way on the internet in today’s world. Secondly, the innovative gamification model assures people get paid out for curating and creating high-quality content. Just like investing in a stock or another asset, if you find a high-quality post early on, you can take away a pretty penny.

The way it works is relatively simple on the surface. Each post on PCGAMER.BUZZ has a piece called a banner, which generally consists of a big image that carries the meat of the post. When you choose to sponsor a post (this works like upvoting on Reddit except you have to deposit a small sum of money), it effectively becomes yours. Let’s say it cost you 17 cents. You hold control of that post until someone else comes by and sponsors the post after you. That’s when the magic happens and you take away a small profit in addition to your initial investment. Warning: can be highly engaging!

PCGAMER.BUZZ immediately pays ⅔ of its entire revenue stream to users. This offers people the opportunity to choose what they want to do with their earnings. They can either cash out at the TechSource Store, which is supported by a YouTube community of millions, or people can buy games directly from Steam, which is one of the top gaming destinations for people online, and most recently people were also given the option to cash out on Amazon.

Is this enough to get people to migrate from places like Reddit and Facebook? It’s still too early to tell for sure, but the future looks bright for PCGAMER.BUZZ and their bumbling niche community.

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