Is this a rhetorical question because it's super obvious.
Those aren't even affiliate links. Those are links to their own storefront.
There goal is to direct traffic to their products with the highest martins.
"Fallout Tactics" must be trending somewhere.
That's it. That's the mystery. Take game that has some buzz, write nonsense piece to try to convert search traffic for "how do I play Fallout Tactics" into sales.
Edit: Didn't realize it was such an old game. Maybe it's renewed "Fallout" traffic from the TV show and just updated a 2001 article to push their current PCs.
Edit 2: There's a whole lot of articles like that one. https://archive.ph/HWFFh (original Fallout, lol). They're all just superficially disguised entry points to their store.
Is this a rhetorical question because it's super obvious.
That's it. That's the mystery. Take game that has some buzz, write nonsense piece to try to convert search traffic for "how do I play Fallout Tactics" into sales.
Edit: Didn't realize it was such an old game. Maybe it's renewed "Fallout" traffic from the TV show and just updated a 2001 article to push their current PCs.
Edit 2: There's a whole lot of articles like that one. https://archive.ph/HWFFh (original Fallout, lol). They're all just superficially disguised entry points to their store.
and they should get smacked about for false or misleading advertising.