Thread 725527464

And you are being Gamed.

https://archive.is/wOKYI
https://i.imgur.com/oHPFf3Q.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/Z07Ybxd.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/cphhgGe.png
https://i.imgur.com/DMW2VMG.png

Everyone knows everything is fake and gay.

>>725527464 (OP)
>Internet is not Real

I am real though

>>725527578
Sar what gayms have you been gayming?

/v/ has this but with dispatch and atluslop

I'm shocked that shills exist. I never would have known were it not for brave anon making a reddit screenshot to post on 4chan.

>>725527632
As an AI, I don’t play games myself, but I’m familiar with many popular titles. If you’d like recommendations or want to talk about a specific game, feel free to let me know!

>>725527578
You don't sound very real.

>>725527464 (OP)
Oh no, not REDDIT!?

>>725527464 (OP)
YJK it's jeets running that company because all of those threads are AI generated slop

>shills exist
>THE INTERNET IS NOT REAL STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW

It feels not real because of the swarm of chinese.

>>725527948
>chinese
Nice try ranjeesh, they have their own internet

Wow you mean the well known fact that literally every tech company completely bullshits there metrics and nobody actually likes the absolutely fucking abhorrent state of the internet these days was....
TRUE????????????
Next thing you'll tell me are internet moderators are socially inept corrupt retards.

>>725527464 (OP)
Feel free to go back and discuss it there.

>>725527989
I don't see Hindi polluting Steam reviews. I see chingchongs.

>>725527990
Damn I need to have my coffee.
>There metrics
How embarrassing.

>>725527464 (OP)
>https://i.imgur.com/cphhgGe.png
>https://i.imgur.com/DMW2VMG.png
One look at it and it's an extremely obvious shill, redditors are just fucking retarded if they can't spot that - I mean more than I already thought they are.

>>725527464 (OP)
why would i give a shit

>>725528106
>The Bee Simulator
That's literally an ad, not even a subtle one, he just says "bee simulator game exists, very fun quests, play it". Are redditors this retareded?

cant fall for shilling when I assume every poster is a shill

>>725527464 (OP)
I have not played any of these games or even considered doing so

>>725528343
What you need to understand is that redditors are the exact opposite type of people as here
Here is a bunch of smart people pretending to be retarded
Reddit is a bunch of retarded people pretending to be smart

>>725528501
>redditors are the exact opposite type of people as here
The vast majority are crossposters but they can type more edgy shit here.

>>725528106
>>725528501
>redditors are just fucking retarded if they can't spot that -
out of curiosity i checked the post exposing the shilling and half of them are just shitting on
>the obvious nature of the shill
>the complete ineffectiveness of the shilling because most of the games named as being shilled were literally who tier that got a handful of reviews
reddit has its own bot problem so a lot of activity on there is already known to be inorganic
and the other reality: a lot of redditors are people on here, or vice versa.

>>725527578
That's exactly what a not-real person would say

>>725528501
>Here is a bunch of smart people pretending to be retarded
lmao

>>725528106
>My reddit team pulled off something wild
how do you even type that without wanting to kill yourself

>>725528554
Speak for yourself, buddy.

>>725528501
Why do you still have this delusion in the year of our Lord?
Nuchan 90% reddit/twitter caps.

>>725527464 (OP)
if you can't tell a shill thread from a real one you might have brain damage

>>725527852
>YJK it's jeets running that company
They're just doing the leg work.

>>725528632
You're posting in a thread made by a crossposter anon.

>>725527464 (OP)
I don't play these games and I'm not a redditor. The only shit that gets shilled on /v/ nowadays is gacha garbage and I refuse to play them.

>>725527464 (OP)
You mean the Eglin Airbase's very own personal propaganda testbed has been getting astroturfed content? Really? You MUST be joking! How could this happen D:

>>725527464 (OP)
Post the pics here.

>>725527464 (OP)
If you have two braincells to rub together, you'll notice this happening on /v/ as well. It's not even subtle anymore. Why buy ad space when you can automatically make a new thread as soon as the old one bumps off or doesn't get enough traction? I should also mention, there's a reason why you can't report posts or threads for advertising anymore.

>>725527464 (OP)
Wow thanks OP i really needed reddit to tell me paid marketing and damage control exists because i'm 18 years of age in the year 2025 with a covid education.

>>725527464 (OP)
>https://imgur.com/cphhgGe
That real time strategy game ad is the stupidest shit I have seen in a very long time, even chink mobile game ads are more creative, there's no way people read that bullshit and thought "haha yeah I guess I should install this game now"
Literally the most obvious shill post ever

>>725527464 (OP)
Companies buying real reddit accounts to shill is… maybe a decade old news? lol
Fucking toilet paper companies are doing it, everyone is

>>725528501
>Redditors are the exact opposite type of people as here
What the fuck are you even writing? Unironically lurk more.

>>725527464 (OP)
>reddit finally figured out what 4chan did many years ago
behind the curve as per the usual
but also
>reddit screenshot
go back

90% of the replies in dispatch threads feel completely artificial

>>725528821
>I should also mention, there's a reason why you can't report posts or threads for advertising anymore.
You made me check but you actually can. Not that I'd be surprised if this happened for real but why make it up?

>>725528501
>here is a bunch of delusional retards who think they're smart acting like retards
Fixed that for you, retard.

>>725528929
one of the few games i actually filtered, that's how bad it got

>>725527464 (OP)
Yes, we've known about bots and paid shills for awhile now.
Thanks for the redundant information.

>>725528821
>>725528943
>You made me check but you actually can.
Oh my bad. I'm retarded-- that or they added it back since I last checked but let's just go with the former since it's more likely.

>>725527464 (OP)
indian?

advertisers are dumb, they think
>people see ad, interact with my company, they buy product
but if you advertise to me too hard or in a suspicious way i will not buy anything because i will assume you have a very bad product
the assumption that the viewer of the ad is stupid, or that these companies can survive on stupid people alone is comically inept business. everyone involved in this sort of work should be ashamed of yourself.

>>725528929
>>725528980
dispatch had been talked about for a while already in next fest threads, you are way late to the party (see picrel). the demos i wanted to talk about got little attention relative to it. plus the e-celebs being in the cast was always going to boost it.
>game they dont like or understand getting lots of threads and activity so they have an autistic meltdown and assert it must be because of shills because they've never heard of it even though anons have been talking about them for months
what /v/ermin think is shilling activity
>hey guys check out our new game called 'robot fight 2000' its got chills thrills and spills as you live out your robot fighting fantasy. explore 30 levels and build over 400 robots, available now on steam (make sure to remove this part from the post, 20 cents have been deposited into your account)
the actual shilling activity happening in the type of posts made in >>725528106

>>725527464 (OP)
You know what's real? A job. Get one.

pretty much everytime there's a sony thread here you can be sure it's advertising
>how do you do fellow gamers, how fun do you think horizon zero dawn is? personally I think it is very fun sirs I mean guys

The thing about astroturfing is that it IS real, but the conversation is incredibly muddied by people who see ANY positive comment made for a game they dont like or care about as astroturfing

>>725527464 (OP)
Unironically though, how do you stop this?

>>725529154
>dr Pavel
Was getting caught part of his plan?

>>725529171
By acting like a schizoid retard and calling everybody who says anything positive about a game a shill, thus rendering any earnest discussion impossible.

>>725529129
half of HZD are posted for the sole purpose of making fun of it or baiting those make-fun replies by acting like a fan of the thing to troll
a lot of /v/ has autism and cannot discern the difference
and even if the posts were genuine
what is more likely
sony is paying to astroturf fucking 4chan with a couple of threads here and there while recieving
or there are mindless posters on /v/ that actually want to play HZD among other lowbrow mainstream titles

>>725529079
ive had dispatch filtered since like day 2 when i realized it was some WEG-tier trash

>>725529171
Grief the thread, engage in contrarianism, you know, the usual /v/ tactics.

>>725529167
Pretty much this. Schizos who take other people liking shit they dont like as a personal attack has basically rendered impossible to spot actual attempts at shilling and astroturfing unless they're extremely blatant

>>725529154
>split fiction
did that even work that game was such a fart in the wind, I think even the fans of josef's coopslop are getting tired of that shit

>>725529252
Clearly that doesn't work given how bad it is on /v/

>>725529236
>i filtered game i dont want to see
thats your prerogative and frankly a better alternative to chimping out because you cant fathom why its getting a bunch of replies

>>725529236
>look, I filtered this popular thing, give me validation!
How stunning and brave. You deserve a medal.

>>725528501
>Here is a bunch of smart people pretending to be retarded

>>725529079
You'd be making a better point with your picture if it wasn't well known that 4chan has a pretty severe samefagging problem that's only gotten worse since they removed the poster count for the Sweet Baby Inc fags back when "gamergate 2" was happening. (The previous statement was sarcastic for the record).
Hell, Deltarune, an actually popular game isn't even immune to that shit, most of its threads are flooded by some total faggot posting across his pc and phone.
And this isn't even something that's hard to notice, like how literally fucking every conversation about E33 is about it's apparently "popularity" which if it actually WAS it'd go without saying instead of needing to pay people to remind people
>HAY DIS GAEM??? PEOPLE ACTUALLY LUV IT A WHOLE LOT AND IT HAS A MILLION BILLION PLAYERS SO IT'S NOT GONNA BE WEIRD AT THE GAME AWARDS THAT PEOPLE TOTALLY ACTUALLY DEFINITELY CARE ABOUT BEYOND GAME ANNOUNCEMENTS :)))))

>>725529252
>just bump the thread and keep talking about it endlessly

You're a moron. I guarantee you /v/ is directly responsible for 30% of the sales Dustborn got because of that kind og shit

>>725527464 (OP)
Is this really news to anyone? If you actually thought that companies weren't paying shills to push games online then you're insanely naive.

>>725529354
>bump the thread
lurk more

>>725529313
not what i was going for but if you're having a meltdown over someone not seeing your shit threads, you might need to ask for a raise.

I'm immune to all psyops, social manipulation, emotional reactionaryism, astroturfing, shilling and sneaky niggers. my vision is augmented.

>>725529354
This, can't even imagine how many copies Concord sold because of anons making bump limit threads 24/7 for the two weeks it was online

>>725529345
it has a samefagging problem but based on your examples
unironically (You) are too simple to figure out when its happening and when its happening, who is it in service of

>>725529387
Dog look around, nobody engaging in those threads knows what saging is, get real

>>725527464 (OP)
Its real to me

>>725529354
I know I bought Disco Elysium because of /v/ hate threads lmao

>>725529404
>my vision is augmented
same but i never asked for this

it's actually comical how much shilling goes on on reddit.
if you have the browser extension you can set your own tags on reddit accounts that show up on all their posts and it's always the same people pushing the same shit.
now imagine the shit you can do on a completely anonymous board.

>>725529414
cont.
>IM A FAN OF [game] AND IM A COMPLETE FUCKING RETARD
>wow i cant believe fans of [game] act like this, i hate [game] now!
people STILL fall for this

>>725527464 (OP)
At this point I just assume anything good or bad anyone says about anything is a shill. Talking about things for any reason means you want me to buy into something, and all I have to do is avoid buying into any of the things you want me to buy. And no, this doesn't mean you've successfully gotten me to be "apathetic". I base all of my world views on first principles I generate entirely within my own mind, and I am passionate about them.

>>725529414
>(You) are too simple to figure out when its happening and when its happening,
>He said replying to a post identifying it happening
You're an idiot.

>>725529261
it's extremely suspicious when people apparently like something but can't really discuss it specifically, they just discuss how they felt about something in blog format to no one in particular and talk past each other just to keep a thread bumped. a lot of the posts in e33 threads and other heavily turfed kusoge seem like ai generated filler.

>>725529527
Case in point

>>725529526
>You're an idiot.
YOU CANT READ
>and when it is happening, who is it in service of

>doesn’t mention the most egregious
>shitsong, exp 33 and all Nintendo

Yeah he really “uncovered the crime”

Reddit is full of complete fucking morons

>>725529502
I'm honestly scared how often this works. Sometimes people call falseflag but very rarely. I for the lulz sometimes pretend to be a retarded fanboy and never get called out.

>>725529563
>and when it is happening, who is it in service of
Both things addressed in my post retard.

>>725529590
pretend to be retarded long enough and eventually retards will find they are in good company.jpg.exe

>>725529578
>all Nintendo

Yes anon, ALL praise anyone ever throws at Nintendo is astroturfed and insincere lmao

>>725528501
>Here is a bunch of smart people pretending to be retarded
I stopped believing that long ago. This place has become just as soulless as any other place on the internet.

>>725528501
>Here is a bunch of smart people pretending to be retarded

>>725529558
one person blog posting is usually normal, but an entire thread full of garbage say-nothing posts that don't even acknowledge each others existences is obviously unnatural. it's not a personal attack to notice a pattern.

>>725529261
>Schizos who take other people liking shit they dont like as a personal attack

>>725529741
>full of garbage say-nothing posts

What does this even mean? Do you have any actual examples or screencaps?

>>725527464 (OP)
>https://archive.is/wOKYI
how long has trapplan actually been around?
why is the english so bad on this page?
>out of 200k views, only 51 people commented, and only 250 upvotes
lmao what a joke on view count.

now, for a game that doesnt have an actual marketing budget, something that isnt going to have a trailer shown at gamescom or tga, i could actually see paid shilling on reddit actually paying off. anything that everybody already knows about and is talking about though? absolutely the fuck not. and absolutely NOBODY is paying to shill on 4chan. onirism shilled for 5 years and only hit 250 players.

>>725528501
>Here is a bunch of smart people pretending to be retarded

>>725527464 (OP)
I remember when this news broke during the xbox 360 era. Everyone decided they didn't care then. And here we are now. I've given up.

Every belief you think you have. Every cause you think you share with people here. Its all sponsored by your corporate masters.

>>725529861
>NOBODY is paying to shill on 4chan
are you blind, or have you seriously not seen the gacha/coomer threads?

>>725528821
you're a special kind of stupid to think that /v/ would even be worth shilling on.

Expedition 33 is probably THE most astroturfed game in the last decade

Oh wow a 500 IQ redditor euphoric by his own intelligence figured out what we did when borderlands 2 came out and the board got astroturfed to shit
amazing

>>725529861
>>725529960
Very organic pushback against concerns of astroturfing! Good work Ranjesh, Tanjeet.

>>725529960
I think even less of troglodytes that can't detect patterns. Begone, subhuman.

>>725529648
Did I stutter you fucking shill?

>>725529942
there's only a handful of people still posting on /v/ that emphasize their points by fully capitalizing a single word

I mean, all advertising should be illegal, but this kind of shit even more so.
Unfortunately it's completely unenforceable since all these botfarms are in bumfuck south east asia.
All the more reason to ban the third world from the internet.

>>725527464 (OP)
Everything on Reddit AND 4chan is just astroturfing, hence their bizarre, schizophrenic takes on everything. Reddit is just slightly different in that it's the far-left version, where everything must be gay. Two extremes.

>>725528106
>redditors are just fucking retarded if they can't spot that
My brother in Christ, we just had 2 weeks of Yotei blast-havers and form returners hitting bump limits.

>Don't now a single fucking game they shilled
>Except for gaijin shit that I avoid like the plague because they're the jewish antichrist and now amount of reputation washing could save them
They do a pretty shit job to be desu familia

if you browse reddit i will publicly execute you

>>725529976
There hasn't been a single non-negative entire thread about that game on 4chan. It's the exact opposite of what you're claiming, but whatever discussion could be had from this will be nulled once you just chimp out.

>>725528501
>Here is a bunch of smart people pretending to be retarded

>>725529906
>Every belief you think you have. Every cause you think you share with people here. Its all sponsored by your corporate masters.
Couldn't be me. I simply have no opinions on things I haven't spent an ungodly amount of time on.

>>725527464 (OP)
Like most people over 100 IQ I haven't watched a single TV ad outside of live sports broadcasts or seen a blockable internet ad in about 20 years. But companies spend even more on marketing than they ever have before. Pretty obvious it has to go somewhere.

>>725527464 (OP)
This is why I only trust the opinions of posters that include NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER and other combinations of slurs and swear words.

>>725529261
>>725529773
The best example of this I've experienced has been saying you own anything AMD. Your post is just instantly attacked. The one-participant arguments are nuclear and totally organic.

>>725527464 (OP)
the thing is that it's an open secret but retards still fall for it all the same. they forgot to mention E33 - biggest shill game since bg3

astroturfing is honestly just the newest form of marketing. people know to close ads. boomers and children and redditors without the brain function to filter shills though, fall for the astroturf every time

>>725529261
Trvth nvke. When you ALWAYS have someone screaming that ANY non-negative post about a game is shilling, then the word loses its meaning entirely. It's kind of a self-fulfilling thing because actually good games will get a lot of posts about them, which just feeds onto the idea that all of it is astroturfed, which makes actual attempts at astroturfing almost impossible to detect

>>725530194
E33 shilljeet detected. people definitely shill that game on /v/ but posters call it out unlike on reddit where the astroturf shills downvote you. and 90% of the threads i see are just shills trying to call it GOTY

>>725530398
Go kill yourself.

>>725528106
they are literally retarded enough to believe in troons, heinz 57 genders, social distancing (like air can't move around) and that an untested clot shot was 100% safe and effective.

>>725530398
I know this is gonna blow your mind because you don't play videogames anon, but sometimes people talk about videogames...because they like them! Crazy, I know, but it's true

>>725529345
>chronically online retards/trolls are samefagging or reposting
>CLEARLY THEY WERE PAID TO DO THIS BY BIG CORPOS
oh yeah, those big corpos have definitely been doing this for 15+ years. sure. all it takes is 1-5 dedicated autists to shitpost for their own satisfaction. do you really think concerned ape paid anyone to perpetually jas-post? do you really think choco paid anyone to shill his failure of a game (onirism)? the more popular something is, the more likely you are to get one of these autistic schizos to latch on to it. also your assumption that its paid shills doesnt explain the repost pasta that isnt even about specific games but gets posted for YEARS on repeat.

you faggots are so narcissistic to think that /v/ has any actual marketing value, and so utterly mindbroken by e33 that you literally can not comprehend that people genuinely liked the game. on top of that, because you're so mindbroken by it, you give the schizos all the engagement that they crave.

>THE INTERNET IS FAKE
>EVERYONE IS A LIAR, SHILL, BOT
>NOW GET OFF THE INTERNET SO WE CAN ALGORITHMICALLY PICK WINNERS INSTEAD

>>725527464 (OP)
We know, this isn’t anything new. They’ve been on 4chan astroturfing the board with expedition 33 and pro-steam threads

>>725530194
shut the fuck up nigger, you were clearly not here when the game came out. nowadays it gets the threads it deserves because the shill budget as run out and everyone knows it's absolute dogshit, other than the few retards left who actually believed the shilling

>>725530446
the pajeet seethes the moment he's called out. typical sandeep reaction

Buy the mountain dew and doritos

>>725527464 (OP)
Good thing i didn't play any of these.

>>725527464 (OP)
>no Expedition 33
Baguettebros... We won

>>725530464
no need to samefag sandeep. you're not getting paid double

>>725530464
But anon, don't you get it? HE doesn't like those games, which means any discussion about it MUST be fake and gay, because why would anyone like something HE doesn't like?

At the end of the day it's just ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME

>>725530464
omg, like, really? I didn't know that. Omigosh!
It's like, totally reddit in here. Upvoted!!

Arc Raiders is doing the same thing.

>>725530194
how much you're getting paid? 1 rupees per hour?

>silksong gathers steam as one of the most anticipated releases in modern videogame history
>finally comes out
>somehow, in anon's mind, the fact that it got lots and lots of threads is surprising and can only be explained by people being paid to do it

>>725529224
>>725529252
Thread content doesn't matter, what they want is an image of their game on the catalogue

>>725530464
>>725530537
holy fuck, you can literally visualize the reddit neckbeard typing these shillposts.

pathetic shill/samefag. even the way you type is a dead giveaway that you're a faggot redditor down to the faux outrage and the melodramatic womanlike writing

>>725527464 (OP)
I did wonder how such meh games like mouthwashing or miside got so popular among the normalfags.
But don't ring the alarm bells just yet. I'm finishing my very basic farming Sim game, and I might use this to make it popular.

>>725529079
yes yes, surely your favourite marvel anime game that normies wouldnt actually even spit at unless the algorithm recommended it to them is not astroturfed.
Surely there should be atleast 2 threads up about it at anytime in the day here.
You completely miss the point, there are no games on /v/ that are not being astroturfed, aside from extremely autistic shit like fucking Touhou
/v/ is just a huge marketing platform for companies to get you to buy their newest shit, or to remind you of their old games on sale or that were updated

Reminder everytime you defend some game or even talk about it, you are doing for free what some pajeets get paid rupees for
Im just gonna keep posting in off-topic threads because thats the only good thing this place is for anymore after /b/ was ruined long ago

>>725530617
>Shillsong gathers steam as one of the most shilled games in history

>>725530580
>>725530537
>>725530464
totally normal 4chan posts. nope, no way this isn't some shill samefagging

>>725530653
>NO IT CANNOT BE THAT PEOPLE LIKE THINGS I DISLIKE, IT HAS TO BE A BIG CONSPIRACY TO FOOL ME ME ME ME ME ME

I'm sorry anon, but you're just no the main character of reality. You'll get over it

>>725530031
>>725530035
https://steamcharts.com/app/1057640
5 years of shilling is so worth it guys. totally.
>>725529942
you mean the people that actually "play" those games? yes, they're utterly obsessed and insane. they arent paid to shill, and certainly not HERE. they "shill" for it out of their own passions. nobody is paying for the tranny/blacked spam on /gif/ either. theres just a certain audience that comes to 4chan.

>>725527464 (OP)
Arc Raiders too.

>>725530602
Just stop being mad.

>>725530617
Silksong was highly anticipated and already had an established fanbase. A certain French game didn’t.

I have always said and will keep saying that the only way to solve the shitposting on /v/ (and everywhere else, really) issue is a system that requires you to attach your account/username on steam/psn/xbox/nintendo so everyone can see if you actually own and played the games you are talking about instead of making shit up out of your own ass, as weel as visibile trophies/completion (which also acts as a proof that you own modern hardware to run those games)
this really an easy fix that makes it impossible for poor people, gossiping retards, poltards and other sorts of subhumans to make a post
the quality of the board will skyrocket while attracting new blood as it's not an ai porn and politics dump anymore because /pol/ and /vr/ exist for everyone else

gossiping faggots, torrenting fatoids and poor people will call me names for this opinion but you know that I'm right
this will be /v/'s 9/11, think of it as the elden ring dlc being locked for those that don't actually play video games and how mad they were yet they did nothing about it

>>725530656
In the case of those games it's the viral effect brought on by Tiktok and Youtube. Same with that incest game. Influencer culture has been an indirect cause of a lot of shilling here, a cancer on this board.

>>725527464 (OP)
Wait until you learn about Kojima lol

>>725529065
You are not the targeted audience anyway dumbass
They just want you to bump their threads and keep them up so that the other dumbasses will think something is popular
Popular = good in most peoples minds
There are tons and tons of games on steam nowadays with Overwhelmingly Positive score when back a year or two ago this used to be rarity
Nowadays even mediocre games get that score from shills because thats how you make the money

>>725530658
>I hate video games, you can't talk about them because there's indians who also talk about video games, that means all posters are indian
Indians also breathe air toxotranny

>>725530796
>an established fanbase

Of shills. Don't try sweeping that ad campaign under the table by pointing at someone else, rajeet

>>725530617
it didnt insist upon itself like the baguette hallway simulator
threads were going for longer than was natural

>>725530471
>Things that weren't said

>>725530718
Oh yes I'm sure that it doesn't benefit these companies to get some wumao to sit on /v/ making a thread every day about Kafka or whoever the cumslut of the week is. These are just diehard fans, I'm sure.

>>725530658
the traffic on /v/ does not merit "shilling" lmao
additionally, big AAA things that everybody already knows about and is talking about would be the most pointless thing to shill... since they're already talking about it for you. it literally doesnt make sense.

>>725530796
>>725530858
>random e33 seethe

??? Is this the new approach? To cover your blatant shill campaign by bringing up other shill campaigns?

>>725529252
lmao if you think that actually works
Whenever you post something negative in a thread, even if you sage it, you will get a minimum 3 replies defending the game per post you make
So you just end up making the thread look more legit in the long run by contributing
And if you say nothing that contributes to discussion youll just get banned instead

>>725527464 (OP)
yeah no shit retard, weve been dealing with this shit for decades

>>725530903
It's working very well to derail the thread.

>>725527464 (OP)
>OP discovers what shilling is
first time on /v/?

>>725530703
>>725530580
>>725530537
>>725530464
guarantee you this samefag posts on reddit. maybe if you keep samefagging, someone will believe it kek.

>>725530918
the winning move is to not post at all, but that is WAYYYYY too complicated for most people. they are utterly COMPELLED correct others.

>>725530801
shitposting is what keeps people coming back, which is ad views

>>725527464 (OP)
I can see through marketer bullshit so I don't care. If I can endure years of uglinism shilling I'll be just fine.

>>725531013
That and the fact that a lot of supposedly 'negative' posts are just samefagging. A ton of the more caustic and aggressive comments against a game are made by shills to false flag their detractors as deranged, toxic schizos. You can see many of those in this very thread!

>>725530871
sure it does. how much do you think they pay a jeet to shill? how much do you think a copy of E33 costs?

10 rupees to shill E33 for an hour. 40 USD if they sell a copy. it's a no-brainer. I visit a JRPG sub and they were shilling that shit months before the game came out. You could just tell it wasn't organic

>>725529785
no because im not a schizo and i don't save things that aren't cute and/or funny
but there is a certain feeling to threads where everyone just posts the same tired handful of what is obviously press pack content or screencaps of youtube for months and months and months before a real person posts a screenshot or webm of their actual playthrough.
whereas with non-astroturfed games the first thing everyone does is take screenshots and make memes, like whenever a new edf game comes out.

>>725528501
>Here is a bunch of smart people pretending to be retarded
If that was ever truly the case then it was long before you and the other retards that think they're smart came along.
>>725528584
That happens a lot when some faggot crossposts ragebait on here. You google it and it ends up being some shit that even redditors are mocking but people on here love sucking their own dicks and nobody even so much as looks up what OP is trying to bait them with anymore, they just happily bite day after day.

>>725531090
>/v/ermin reacts with baffled confusion when people actually talk about videogames instead of ragebait shit

>>725527464 (OP)
Reddit is also botted with millions of fake AI accounts that try to act human. The funny thing is that no one noticed until the researched published their paper. 4chan most likely has a lot of that too.

>>725527464 (OP)
What do you mean these games that are paying for advertising absolutely everywhere are advertising on reddit

>>725529065
You are dumb. You think that you are above marketing and that it doesn't work.

>>725530801
> torrenting fatoids
What the fuck do you think has to do with anything in your post? Are you actually angry some people are not buying the same slop as you are and that their opinions about the slop are invalidated because they didnt PAY?

>>725531070
and how do shills make any money shitting on a game again? the only one who makes money shilling a game is you which is why you're the one samefagging. see below
>>725530703
>>725530580
>>725530537
>>725530464

isnt there a term for the disinformation tactic, where you spread a ton of false information and call literally everything false, and then nobody can tell whats true anymore? i swear theres a short term for it. maybe i got some of the details wrong, but its something along those lines. this cacophony of "shills! shills! shills!" serves nothing and nobody, except for anarchistic trolls.

Everyone that has posted in this thread is a bot

>>725527464 (OP)
>Natural to redditors
So they hired a bunch of karens and trannies as shills?

>>725529252
You do realize that the marketing thread doesn't come with a disclaimer, right?
>I just call everybody who likes a game I don't like shill and start spamming gore
Great.

>>725529354
Your retarded post would make more sense if you didn't use a mega-flop as an example. You'd still be lying, because while hate-watching something on a service you're already subscribed to might be a thing, hate-buying a video game isn't.

>>725531140
cope. i was on the JRPG subreddit for months before and they were shilling the shit out of this game with barely a trailer. what discussion was there when you didn't even know anything about the game? you could tell nothing about E33 was organic.

not to mention, the spam of GOTY is clearly not organic either. it's just spam and there's barely any discussion

>>725529252
Paid shills just spam the same thread every day 1-3 times. They don't give a fuck about you being a contrarian, only that people actually give the OP (Yous) and attention of any kind.

>>725531192
>to false flag their detractors as deranged, toxic schizos

Read, anon, read. Although in your case, you're basically doing their job for them

>>725531090
>You could just tell it wasn't organic
why? because you dont like it? because you dont think its a good game?

>>725531197
after reading it enough, the word shill starts to feel like a signal word as well
I don't know what the word you're looking for is but it feels like a smokescreen or some form of misdirection to me
>>725531206
there is no greater subhuman than a tripfag, even the bots have more soul than you
kill yourself

>>725529906
Source for your statement? No? Thought so. pwned
>Every belief you think you have
You're the dumbest person in this thread.

>>725531178
>What the fuck do you think has to do with anything in your post?
simple, if you torrent you are irrelevant to the industry and all your complaints and opinions are meaningless
people that torrent also often talk about how they got the entire gorilions of terabytes of ROM collections available, I don't think that a dude like this is playing modern releases which is the central topic of /v/ - Video Games
>invalidated because they didnt PAY
yes, quite literally, I don't make up the rules no need to get mad
you want more good/beloved games? pay up
if you can't pay then think about getting your money up first rather than posting your opinions about video games

>>725531270
>there's barely any discussion

I've lost count of the amount of threads of people discussing the ending and who was right or wrong. You might as well call threads talking about Skyrim or New Vegas faction politics shilling since they're basically the same thing, and we still get those to this day

>>725527672
this

and jannies are a part of it because organic pragmata threads are deleted on sight while dispatchslop, arcraiderslop, offtopic and ecelebs are all up

>>725529354
>I guarantee you /v/ is directly responsible for 30% of the sales Dustborn got
a whopping 20 /v/ denizens bought the game? Holy shit shilling in /v/ Just. Works.

>>725531387
>organic pragmata threads

Nice try, shilljeet

>>725531197
>if you call people out for their lying/shilling, they become harder to trust!
no shit anon.

just because you want to stick your fingers in your ears and pretend everything is organic doesn't mean it is. anyone with half a brain can tell that shilling/astroturfing is happening and is extremely profitable. you can't "trust them" because they're lying to you, not because people bring attention to it happening like with E33 and that one samefag anon who's clearly being paid

>>725530215
Thought it was an Indian edit from the thumbnail

>>725531101
>months and months and months before a real person posts a screenshot or webm of their actual playthrough.
lmao thanks for admitting that you didnt actually look at all, and you just have a hate boner.

>>725531178
Reminder /v/ is the only board that has posts seething against piracy. These are the biggest industry shills on the board

>>725531434
>and pretend everything is organic

Said no one ever. Try reading posts before responding

>>725531387
>organic pragmata threads
kill yourself cp spammer
go back to your chan

>>725531434
no, its that its meant to sow distrust in literally everything, and even genuine things are no longer trusted or have meaning. its a tool for anarchy/trolling.

>>725531174
marketing does work on me, the marketing itself can speak to the quality of a product or service, but what i am saying is everyone is marketing wrong and sabotaging their attempts to market to me by assuming from the get-go that i am a retard and i don't know i am being marketed to.

>>725531434
Sowing dissent and pointless, cyclical arguements is a textbook tactic for manipulators to prep the field. You're just a useful idiot and you don't even realize

>>725531289
no because it was being spammed on JRPG and gaming subreddits months before it was released. a random INDIE game from a studio no one ever heard of getting spammed months before release with barely a trailer? not to mention the people spamming how it's the greatest game they ever played with a gazillion upvotes (clearly organic lmao) and so much over the top ridiculously fake shit that it borderline functioned as advertising.

do you think that's organic?

also, it was a mid game and not much better than any other JRPGs I've played. worse in some respects such as their retarded writing and piss poor combat system that broke if you knew that multiplying numbers equals bigger numbers. or the skill trees where you would have your best skill by bum rushing a quarter of the grid and then stop progressing

>>725531319
You're the biggest joke on the internet.
Your database is a disaster.
You're waxing your modem, trying to make it go faster.
Hey fella, I bet you're still living in your parent's cellar.
Downloading pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar.
And posting 'ME TOO' like some braindead AOLer.
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller.
You're about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller.

>>725531605
based al

>>725531438
it was long before anybody was posting coomer mods. if anything you fags were late

>>725531490
i read it. you're just too stupid to understand what your complaints boil down to. "people calling out lies makes people hard to trust"

or is it just a sly way to say "hehe akshually calling out shills is a bad thing anons"

>>725529236
Dispatch is just Mass effect 2 waifu war return, with Miranda being the blonde girl and Jack the short hair tomboy

>>725531491
Speaking of spam, its amazing you can see that and seriously think that most of the post on 4chan are organic. Also can't forget the ragebaiting.

>>725530801
Holy fucking shit the oldfag prophecies keep getting confirmed, the absolute state of nu-/v/

My favorite is when they come up with a single name like "Eric" and say that all criticism for the game is coming from this one biased, agenda driven strawman person that they made up.

>>725531602
E33 was a hit everywhere, not just here. Doesn't take a scientist to realize people talk about popular new things more than they talk about niche games barely anyone knows about. For all its contrarianism, /v/'s tastes are surprisingly mainstream casual audience-tier.

>>725531375
>>simple, if you torrent you are irrelevant to the industry and all your complaints and opinions are meaningless
Nobody gives a shit about the (((industry))) you useful idiot moneybag, especially here
Way to out yourself as a total outsider

>>725527464 (OP)
No shit.

How genuinely retarded do you have to be to not have already known this?

>zoomer learns about viral marketing
>"THE INTERNET IS NOT REAL!!!!"

>>725531270
and from the first time i saw a trailer at (whatever geoff keighley show it was. gamescome/tga whatever), i was thoroughly interested. i wasnt posting about it, but it certainly caught my eye. then months later at the next one when they announced the release and showed gameplay, i immediately wishlisted it. it looked good. after getting it, it WAS good. i thoroughly enjoyed it. im sure i wasnt the only one that thought the trailers were good. why is it so hard for you to comprehend that people liked what they saw? that they looked into the project and got other information and discussed it? why is it so hard for you to believe that it was ACTUALLY popular, and not "only successful due to a MASSIVE shill campaign"?

>>725531579
>akshually you shouldn't call out shills because it's sowing dissent for manipulators
you're the biggest retard on /v/ lol. also you do know that if you're sowing dissent and no one knows who to trust, then shills are no longer effective right? i.e. if people are wary of shills, then shills have a harder time operating. you can't out logic me sandeep, i'm probably 40 or 50 IQ points above you

and no i'm not buying E33.

>>725531602
Oooorrrr the game looked good, people were hyped for it, and when it came out it delivered on people's expectations. That's also a possibility, you know?

>>725530396
>When you ALWAYS have someone screaming that ANY non-negative post about a game is shilling, then the word loses its meaning entirely
A lot of the time when I see people crying shill in a thread I honestly couldn't even care less if it genuinely was, though I doubt it, because the people they're bitching at are actually discussing a fucking video game and it feels like a net positive for the board over all the other whiny bullshit on here.

>>725531752
i have literally never heard or seen anyone outside of /v/ talking about it

>>725528106
>it's an extremely obvious shill, redditors are just fucking retarded if they can't spot that
There are 20 daily Sydney Sweeney advertising threads, and the 4chan users do it for free!

>>725531268
dude, 30% is like literally 30 people. for the amount of threads here shitting on it, and how /v/ermin are gluttons for misery, i can absolutely believe those numbers.

>>725531729
>post claiming that they played TES6 in 2024
If anything, they were too optimistic about the future.

>>725531787
>if you're sowing dissent and no one knows who to trust, then shills are no longer effective right?

You really are a useful idiot. Read up on manipulation and crowd control tactics, anon, you really feel like you have a massive blind spot there

>>725531803
No...that's never happened before...

>>725531750
>and say that all criticism for the game is coming from this one biased, agenda driven strawman person that they made up.
My favorite is you saying this when there are more posters than that tripfag shitting those famitsu threads.

>>725531787
You should call out shills when they're actually shills, not when they're discussing any videogame in a positive light. Because then you're basically making people not want to ever talk about videogames in a positive way to avoid people like you

>>725531824
Every streamer keeps praising it and playing it without specific sponsorships.

>>725530871
You're either incredibly new or incredibly naive if you haven't noticed a pattern of upcoming AAA games having a regular pattern of marketing via ragebait for engagement then a deluge of threads with straight up marketing blurbs/pictures just before release, with discussion at most a week later completely dropping off the board. Ubisoft does it literally every fucking time the exact same way. There's just too much attention on this board for no one to want to swing some of it towards some shit they're selling. And the mods are suspiciously quick to shunt less marketed games that get some regular threads over to /vg/ while letting the latest twitter controversy about the latest assassin's creed or whatever fester all over the board

>>725528106
>he says this on the board that fell for Shart Raiders astroturfing.

>>725531914
>you're basically making people not want to ever talk about videogames in a positive way to avoid people like you
I'm pretty sure that's what a lot of anons want at this point.

>>725531914
explain how this affects me when it's a game i don't care about and will never play

>>725531936
Why should there be regular threads for recent news in gaming industry? That doesn't make any sense. Ubisoft exec saying something retarded about one game doesn't warrant a general, unless he says something retarded every single day.

>>725531670
i installed it within the first week or two. i 100% the game in almost exactly a month. you werent there, or you're deliberately lying for the sake of your own hate boner, lol.

>>725527464 (OP)
Whoever they are paying to "astroturf" warships is a thief, there is almost nothing positive about the game on that sub.

>>725531995
>unless he says something retarded every single day.
well he is french

>jannies deal with trying to moderate this cesspool every day, having to clean up gore, CP, scat and other shit almost hourly, and having to read the dumbest fucking posts ever written by man, plus running the risk of getting doxxed and harassed by schizos, and they do it all for free
>somehow, the idea that someone might talk about a videogame for free is just too preposterous to contemplate

>>725531429
*Throws poo* Nice hat.

>>725528501
>Here is a bunch of smart people pretending to be retarded
You're a kind anon. I like you.

>>725532007
it only took you a month? what a piece of shit ass game
hope you got a refund

and yes i was there
other people noticed the same stuff and we discussed it
YOU weren't there.

>>725531936
>a pattern of upcoming AAA games having a regular pattern of marketing via ragebait for engagement then a deluge of threads with straight up marketing blurbs/pictures just before release, with discussion at most a week later completely dropping off the board
Or maybe anons are a bunch of retards that fixate on AAA games and love shitting on them and getting upset more than they do actually playing video games?

>>725531778
the only people who think it was that great are retards who never played a JRPG before. most JRPG enthusiasts I know found it to be good but not great which has been the sentiment on the JRPG subreddit in the aftermath of the shilling campaign. cause the game was totally mid for a JRPG and not even in my top 3 JRPGs this year. it had a ton of glaring flaws too. terribly balanced combat that the average redditor could break if they know how multiplication works (big ask unfortunately). bad writing written by redditors who think writing for shock-value constitutes good writing cause they watched GoT. retarded skill trees that only require you to explore 25-40% to grab all the skills you need.

and yeah it was a massive shill campaign. indie studio, no games, viral marketing campaign. no other JRPGs are getting talked about as much and they crush E33. Trails remake was way better and had fantastic combat and progression. Even Xillia was a better game and I couldn't wait to turn it on and play it

>>725531987
Because one day, it WILL happen to a game you do care about and want to talk about, anon. You'll make or enter a thread about it, wanting to discuss it, and the whole thing will be unusable because it will be filled by retards screaming SHILL SHILL ASTROTURFING RANJEET POO YOU'RE BROWN TRANNY FAGGOT NIGGER, and it will partially be because you helped foster that sort of culture and mentality

Hope this was helpful

>>725531434
>anyone with half a brain can tell that shilling/astroturfing is happening and is extremely profitable
ah yes, dustborn with endless threads for months was SO profitable for them.
>b-but /v/ isnt the right audience for that!
onirism was shilled for 5 years.
shilling on /v/ does nothing.

>>725531757
no industry --> no games
it's a business, a business needs money to survive, it's very simple, nobody is giving you shit for free and if you don't pay you are not a customer so your complaints are also irrelevant unless you have proof of ownership
you are going nuclear over a basic concept that everyone understands
if you can't cough up $90 for a new release then it's only a (You) problem, I suggest getting a job
>especially here
quite on point, that's exactly the issue that I'm addressing, do you want to read the opinions of people that actually play video games or random tantrums and gossiping from those that can't even save up $500 in a year? your call boss
>>725531729
not sure how the notions of making the board literally better for everyone and turning it into reddit can coexist in your head

>>725528501
You guys laugh at his ESL but he's right.

People here act retarded to make stupid people angry. That's high IQ.

On reddit stupid people must NOT show their retardedness because of the upboat system. The more you speak the higher chance that a retard will downboat you because their low intelligence feels insulted. They don't like you supporting trump (low IQ people support trump anyway but) and they downboat you because you don't line up to their low IQ bubble. You support trump on 4chan and most people simply laugh at you for being low IQ but still allow you to post here and then tell you to fuck off to your containemnt board. The entirety of Reddit is basically a containment board for the written message intenet.

>>725529345
Why did they remove the counter when the mods knew that chronic samefagging became something of an epidemic?

>>725531987
How can you not understand the simple concept of what goes around comes around?
>shit up someone else's thread
>they don't talk about their favourite game anymore
>become petty and bored
>shit up your thread because the site has gone to shit
It's a negative feedback loop. Quit being a shitbrained mongoloid.

>>725531750
I wish I too lacked pattern recognition

>>725528501
>4chan
>smart

>>725527464 (OP)
>misery
The Russian game that was delisted from Steam had marketer astroturfing? oh boy that's another funny scandal that I'm sure will be quickly forgotten.

>>725531894
I just don't get anons that pretend that that shitposter doesn't exist, that He's called eric unironically, or that He is the only shitposter. Hell, The guy that owns arch.b4k.dev has to deal with his cp spam.

>>725532118
All I'm getting from this is just 'i didnt like it so it makes no sense to me that other people would'

>>725531936
They're currently working on priming everyone for GTA6, just as an example that everyone should already be aware of. It's fucking obvious, but some people in this thread have already demonstrated their lack of critical thinking skills so I figured it was worth a mention.

>>725527464 (OP)
daily reminder that dead internet theory, mostly talked about how cultural movements are astroturfed by ngos, or government agencies. then reddit made it about capitalism, and brain rot content.

>>725532147
The counter does nothing against proxyfags.

>>725531824
thats because you dont even go outside of /v/ to engage with anyone on anything. you probably dont even talk to real people in real life that share your hobbies. also the general public's interest in it has passed. they already played it or they didnt want it. "but /v/ still shills it!" wow, anon, you just realized that /v/ is a stagnant shit hole of autists desperately clamoring for (you)s? what a massive discovery.

>>725529171
>Unironically though, how do you stop this?
politely request that the OP posts a bunch of slurs before you engage with their thread

>>725527464 (OP)
par for the course, nigger. here's some more examples the rest of you niggers should keep in your back pocket-
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1o67ip8/the_story_of_codesmith_how_a_competitor_crippled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521920 (same as above, just more discussion)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mattress/comments/1l81nn6/and_were_back/ (link from the orange reddit thread)

>>725532312
That is true, but it at least requires a modicum of effort.

>>725532250
JRPGs are not popular and the format has not been popular for years. Even the literal poster child for JRPGs, Final Fantasy, has moved away from the traditional 3/4 niggas in a row turn based combat. Think about it. The paper mario timing thing was neat but does that make it GOTY worthy? People don't care about story, or characters. They care about gameplay. Do you really think light timing mechanics are the secret behind months of threads talking about the 16 year old girls titties, or what's her faces feet?

>>725532140
>People here act retarded to make stupid people angry.
>That's high IQ.
These two do not logically follow and I would take an educated guess that you are one of the "smart" retards.

>>725529404
>Posts the reddit frog
Election tourists spotted
You are the propaganda.

>>725532391
terrible bait

>>725531274
im skeptical. why would you take a screencap of a tweet from the day before?
also is that really how far away the analytics button is on the post? it also doesnt look aligned with the rest of the buttons.
and "ironically saying something nice about or enthusiastic about a mainstream game i want people to trash talk" is not an uncommon post genre
it all just seems too perfect to play to the sentiment that /v/ermin were feeling at the time

>>725532391
>JRPGs are not popular and the format has not been popular for years

Persona exists, anon. So does Pokemon, and Xenoblade, and even fuckin Yakuza is one nowadays, what are you on about?

>>725527578
say nigger

>>725532391
Bro your Digimon???

>>725532391
>poster child for JRPGs
>Final Fantasy

>>725527464 (OP)
Gamed? Like a video game?

>>725532497
Persona, xenoblade, Pokemon, and Yakuza all have something else going for them though.

People play Persona for the VN.
People play Pokemon because of autism.
People play Yakuza because they love the hostess minigame and fucking gokarts.
I don't know anyone who actually plays Xenoblade though.

>>725532391
FF hasn't been the poster child for JRPGs since XIII, which came out in 2009

>>725532118
i grew up playing mostly rpgs on the snes and genesis, and then on the ps1 and 2. e33 was good, and a really refreshing return to what i like out of a game. of course people exaggerate, especially here. however, i still count it as best game of the year, easily. is it perfect? no. still good though. and in a world of slop after slop, "just good" stands out as great. then you factor in all of you mindbroken retards just refusing to understand that people liked it, and the gap in quality only widens. the more you refuse it, the more unrealistic it seems that it could possibly be good to you. its a self fulfilling vicious circle of your own creation.

>>725532678
Motherfucker that's my point. Stupid cocksucking retard. God how the FUCK do you people find the post button

>>725527464 (OP)
>You have to be a paranoid schizophrenic that's suspicious of everything and trusts nothing because corporations want your money THIS badly
Fucking exhausting.
Literally ruining the internet. Look at how wary of authenticity people are with EVERYTHING these days. Everyone on here is a shill, everything's fake, etc. Advertising will kill us all one day.

>>725528501
Good bait.
Every time some news appear on reddit, you'll see [Good News] or a [Bad News] thread on 4chan reaching archive post count.
There is no difference. In fact this place is worse because the mods don't even hide it (AI general, offtopic eceleb threads etc)

>>725531197
Its called Flooding the Zone (with shit)
A tactic beloved by Putin and Orange man.

>>725531936
>AAA games get the most discussion and attention
>after people get their hands on it and play it, they stop talking about it
you dont say? wow, what incredible discoveries. your "pattern recognition" skill is truly SSS rank.

>>725532802
And what does that accomplish? Genuinely asking

Reminder there is an air force base in the USA that has significantly more activity on Reddit originating from it than should be possible with the number of men stationed there. If you can't figure out what that means, the government is running psyops out of that base

>>725527578
how much is 0.1+0.2 ?

>>725532870
nta but the first guy already said it, it's hard to know if any criticism is real or valid

>>725532875
thats not important we should focus on corporations trying to sell us shit instead

>>725532870
Simple, it makes people call everything fake or lies or incorrect without engaging with the substance. Makes people overlook and ignore potentially true things because they keep reading fake bullshit about X all the time.

>>725532915
>>725532923
I see, but who does that benefit? Like, what is the endgame for such a tactic?

>>725532916
I don't really care about corporations trying to sell me shit because being told what to do makes me angry and I already don't believe anything they say so the more they market to me the less likely to give them my money I am

>>725529345
>E33 now isn't a popular game
I honestly don't know what to say much... I con no longer understand who's astroturfing who, since it's literally the first game since forever that I see my friends agreeing on its quality.

Quick reminder that most people don't even buy games, they spend more time gossiping on reddit and 4chan and watching ai slop ragebait content than actually playing video games, let that sink in.
Each time a bait post about a recent release hits bumplimit you can rest assured that less than 0,1% of the people in the thread have even launched the game and are not just parroting the opinions of their favourite ecelebs.
>muh industry is imploding in two weeks muh nintendo is done muh sony is done muh xbox is done muh valve is done muh latest controversy (nobody gives a shit)
Give me a fucking break you disgusting fake ass gamers mongoloids. You are a bunch of frauds and retards. Nobody wants to hear or read the opinions of some poor idiot, if you can't afford a new game or game system then you just move on and shut the hell up. The world doesn't revolve around you, you are irrelevant to the gaming industry and the discourse about it, your opinions are worthless, you have nothing intelligent to say.
Any serious company doesn't accept freeloaders, why gaming should be any different?
Sick of you manchild retards.

>>725532952
...are you incapable of thought?

>>725532912
What? you mean 1 + 2 right? it's not possible to add or subtract numbers smaller than one

>>725532391
>Even the literal poster child for JRPGs, Final Fantasy, has moved away from the traditional 3/4 niggas in a row turn based combat.
and people hate them for that.
>People don't care about story, or characters.
lmao yes they do
>They care about gameplay.
and it was good. simple as. like, its really not deeper than that.

do you really think shilling on forums TRICKED millions of people into buying a game they didnt want or that wasnt good? are you really THAT narcissistic that you cant fathom that people actually liked it?

>>725532952
It's currently being employed to make the thread prematurely hit bump limit.

>>725527578
How can mirrors be real if our eyes are not real

>people are now realizing what dishonest shilling is
lmao

>>725532795
What even are those type of posts anyway? When did someone decided to start making thread with [bad news]/[good news] like that? Is it to ragebait anons?

>>725533063
>american education

>725533007
shill melty

>>725533007
most gamers are wrong about everything, they told us not to worry about feminis. thought that crypto was a fad, and now shouting that AI is a bubble. when are they going realize they are full of shit?

>>725533112
>taking him seriously
Come on nigga

>>725533142
Struck a nerve huh?
get a fucking job subhuman

Yep.


99% of youtubers, not even gaming ones, are just corporate shills, rich privileged sex-haver normies with disposable income, etc.

Same goes for twitch streamers. Most have connections to the companies / game makers, most have insanely wealthy and powerful connected parents or family, and only have the audience they have from their money, connections, and power.

If you think you can bust your balls being a youtuber for a game you like, and assume the game company will EVER feature your videos on their games launcher or front page, you're mistaken. Even if you say... had cornered the market, gotten the most views / subscribers / followers, the company will NEVER acknowledge your existence because you're not on their payroll. You're not one of their wagies pretending to be a normal gamer youtuber.

Every single game has these shills, these fakes, these paid and bought stooges they parade around. It's not even just game companies, but forums and communities as well. Take 4chan's /v/ board for example. There's some shit small time youtuber with a red outline face or something (I dunno the name) that gets posted every fucking day. Smaller channel, gets shit for monthly view counts. Several hundred replies every single fuckin day. But if you, me, or anyone posts a similar thread using a far more popular youtuber as the subject who's not on the jannies "acceptable" card, thread gets deleted, user gets banned, post doesn't get jeet shills and bots to bump the thread.

>>725527464 (OP)
>look for online review
>reddit is bots
>youtube is sponsored
>4chan is retarded
>real life people are easily impressed
what's the solution? And why is every review so positive where are the people that actually show pros and cons in detail?

>>725533206

This is the same for other gaming communities and forums, and especially reddit.

When a brand new game is emerging, a lot of these rich kids will hire shills, pay for ads, and use their connections to make sure their reddit threads about them get updooted, that their "name" gets out there, and they'll even pay tens of thousands of dollars to SEO companies to make sure their shit rises to the top so that "they" are the authority on the game or the "face" of the game.

The twitch streamers also dick-ride and suck each others toes and play "pass the ball" with their audiences raiding each other. LOTS of your favorite streamers use bots and "afk for skin unlock" audiences who are just jeets RMT'ing the skins to retards who don't know any better.

When someone DARES try to be an authority of the game, actually knows SEO, isn't some rich kid buying their way into the space, the system fights back. If you talk shit about a game's pet youtuber, they lock/delete/ban users for it. If the person outside the system gets praised, they get downvoted by jeets and bots. If people (usually employees on indie games on alt accounts) make bad threads about the outsider-youtuber, they get mass upvoted, witchhunted, and threads allowed to stay up. On private "creator" discords every single fucker on the payroll or who is riding the coat tails will gang up on the creator hoping to bully them out of the space.

>>725528501
oh my fucking god bro this site is just reddit for people who think they're too good for reddit. both audiences are insufferable fart huffing pseud niggers who think they know everything, you included. you making such a retarded niggardly post proves me right. this site is riddled with advertisers shilling dogshit EVERY day (see: daily dispatch threads that jannies leave alone despite it being a general) that occupy over a fourth of a catalog on a good day. kill yourself PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE holy SHIT KILL YOURSELF PLEEEEEASE

>>725533206
>>725533261

So if you can't stand youtubers, it's just your gut instinct filtering the fake dipshit money grubbing corpo-faggots.
You gotta find genuine youtubers. Here's how to find them:
1) They usually side with incels like us, or have or are being one, themselves. (I worded this weird, not gonna re-type it. Fuck you.)
2) They're "brand risks" and don't take sponsors or can't get sponsored.
3) Right winged, usually.
4) Discord server that's super locked up tight or insanely mega-racist (based)
5) If you google their name you'll see a bunch of reddit normies hating on the creator, calling them racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic
6) If they make guide videos on the game they play, you'll find a bunch of people saying the guides are "fake" or "wrong" even though the guides show PROOF that it's the best or most efficient or whatever.
7) Most real youtubers who aren't corporate fucks will troll the games they play, get banned for something stupid, or even cheat. This shows they aren't owned by the game company.
8) They won't have hardly any friends they network with that also play the same game.

Most games don't even have actual real youtubers. Sometimes a niche game or indie game might, but most mainstream games the algorithm will drown them out. Good luck finding authentic ones in really popular games.

>>725532058
>jannies have to do their jobs "almost hourly"
The horror! At least they are well compensated for babysitting offtopic threads

>>725527464 (OP)
>Same controversy
>Same coomer threads

>>725533305
>You gotta find genuine youtubers. Here's how to create your own echo chamber that i approve of
ftfy

>>725532952
The marketing corporations. If everyone's a shill, then there's no point talking to people. If there's no people to talk to, you can't get game recommendations from them. When you can't get recommendations from talking with people, the only way left is paid marketing

>>725530668
Damn tendies are really mindbroken by non nintendo games that are popular

>>725533065
>do you really think shilling on forums TRICKED millions of people into buying a game they didnt want or that wasnt good?
It worked to trick people into voting for a guy who didn't give them what he promised.

>>725527464 (OP)
>things we already knew are proven true again
What was the term for this? I first heard it in the context of either the panama papers or elite pedophile ring (epstein)

>>725532497
>Xenoblade

>>725528501
This reminds me of that great post someone made ages ago, about how people on twitter are all repugnant people predending to be virtuous, while 4chan is decent people pretending to be assholes.

>>725533256
You can't really discuss anything here anymore with schizos derailing threads, and even if you get lucky with that the shill bots posting new threads slides your thread out of the way. The internet has just gotten too big, it's hard to rely on large sites anymore.

Only thing I've seen that comes remotely close is personal blogs, and those have mostly died and aren't that easy to discover naturally. People need to become the change they want to see in the world (or internet) and take things into their own hands. Then again, self-hosting became popular because of media trends too so maybe I'm just spreading more propaganda myself.

>>725533427
>talk about or repost current/recent thing?
shill
>talk about or repost old thing in the exact same fashion
somehow not a shill
its like they dont even understand where they are or what the culture is here.

>>725533506
that student loan forgiveness never went through

>>725533427
Nintendies love to project but they are the first ones constantly spamming pokemon threads and making new ones everytime one ends.
FE general is always allowed for some reason

>>725533438

She's a fucking nobody at all yet holds so much power and is somehow a "mentor" lmao? How is she gonna mentor anyone?

I can shit out a video in minutes and get a million views by the months end. My competitors in the niche ALL view bot (comments / view ratio is way fucking off), they all circle jerk each other and pass each other off to their audiences while all demonizing my content, and this kept going for every video game I jumped to, to the point where I hired private investigators and did my own sleuthing to find out who these jokers really are, and the results were wild.

I'm just a dude who likes video games and turned it into a profitable hobby making videos about games entering into what is basically an entire industry controlled from within by the game companies themselves. The MAJORITY of youtubers and streamers that dedicate themselves to one game are actually just stooges for the company. A few of them who "got in early" were hired by the company cause the company liked their content but these days most are hired 1-2 years before a game even launches to be groomed into pretending to be a youtuber or streamer to mould and shape the community the game wants to foster. In one game I play, that's a full loot PvP game, I got a 1 week ban just winning a fight against one of their "in house" employees. It's an open world MMO pvp game and I entered a dungeon the "streamer (AKA employee)" was in, who then flagged up and tried to fight me. I'm one of the wealthiest most geared players in the game so I beat his ass and his entire party. My actions were 100% allowed in the game and aren't bannable but because it was ME specifically and HIM specifically he rang up the devs and that was a 1 week ban. The community threw a fit, the jannies deleted all the threads that were FOR me and kept all the shit up that was AGAINST me. It's utterly disgusting and every single game company does this to "outsider" content creators that aren't on their payroll.

>>725533527
Both that post and what you're replying to is just a rehash of the old 'SomethingAwful is retards pretending to be intellectuals, 4chan is intellectuals pretending to be retards'.

it used to be true, once

Fake ass dead internet

>>725533506
gaming is not the same as a popularity contest rooted ina twisted mess of blind loyalty and "us vs them".

>>725533531
thanks aphex twin monkey

>>725531750
Fun fact, if you ask them how come this Eric never raid Xenobladies, Fire Emblem, Pokemon etc etc thread they will bluescreen or tell you some bullshit
Yeah, they apparently have some schizo but somehow the schizo always respect their generals
Interesting, isn't it?

4chan is not that popular
shilling shit here is a waste of time and money

>>725528501
Lol, here is a bunch of actual retards pretending to be geniuses who cope that the retardation is ironic. Reddit is a bunch of midwits trying to be smart.

The peverse outcome is 4chan is smarter, not because it has higher iq but because stupid people are smarter than midwits who only have access to anti information.

>>725533595
i have no idea who you're talking about. all i did was fix the description of your list.

>>725533683
>4chan is not that popular

We kinda helped orange retard get elected

>>725533715
Why would you want to play with disgusting nigger trannies and women?

This is how I learned that someone is making a Majesty ripoff. The advertising worked, I'm gonna replay Majesty

>>725533595
lmao post the clip and link a thread. i want to see your personal problem.

Everyone has known this for like a decade, and that every game subreddit belongs and is moderated by the companies making them. Everyone has known this for a long time and no one ever cared.

I can't wait for RE9 threads being spammed with buy an ad and shill by tendietroons

>>725533729
keep telling yourself that.

>>725533683
then why did the entire industry sperg the fuck out and radicalize just because we mocked Zoey Quinn?

>>725527464 (OP)
>Internet
>Look inside
>Reddit

>>725529167
Nigga we had one schizo crying OMG ANOTHER YSX THREAD THIS IS A SHILL THREAD just because of a few Ys x threads we had kek
Somehow, a daily fire emblem thread is not a problem, but try to make any other japanese game having a thread everyday and you will get your designated schizo there

>>725533894
it left 4chan. it went WAYYYY beyond 4chan.

>>725529205
4U

Say something nice about them

mandragora worked for me, i saw it mentioned and then pirated it
it was a very very very ok metroidvania

>>725533965
There's some really strong anti-falcom sentiment on this board I've noticed. I think that might be what set them off. If the Sora remake triggered this then I guess it's understandable but it's still retarded.

>>725533997
maksym is literally chud without the glasses

>>725533997
based ruskies

>>725534030
>really strong anti-falcom sentiment on this board
Is there? I've been in dozens of comfy Ys threads
To be fair though I don't play Trails cause it's too anime for me sorry

>>725534030
Fun fact, when they thought Sora remake was switch exclusive the schizo was nowhere to be seen.
It doesn't help one of them might be some roastie mad at trails girls so she is always sperging in Falcom threads

>>725533683
the boomer meme was viral marketing for monster energy faggot

>>725528106
>that skyrim one
You can't be serious

>>725528501
>Here is a bunch of smart people pretending to be retarded

>>725533683
99% of the genuine shilling happens on /biz/ because that board got marked as a hub of cryptocurrency trader activity, pretty much all the "shilling" on /v/ is just people wanting to talk about indie games and there's nothing wrong if an indie dev shills their game here.

>>725533965
The Fire Emblem thread has it's own schizo too. At this point if a game is older than two weeks it will have a schizo

>>725527464 (OP)
>r*ddit
>357 posts
>page 1

>>725533997
>trying to drum up resentment of based russians by accusing them of astroturfing when your whole kike establishment is based on astroturfing and lying
no russian called me incel
no russian told me to become "multicultural"
no russian called me chud

>>725528106
that bee simulator post reeks of AI, and it made the rounds on reddit? how braindead are they?

>>725534219
>resentment of based russians
Holy fucking paranoia

>>725534219
dw they will once they get to you

>>725534258
>>725534268
cope

>>725527464 (OP)
Expedition 33 dragon age outer worlds asscreed vtmb 2 kcd 2 all western leftist Jewish shit and Chinese ccp mihomo threads on /v/ were obvious shill AstroTurf threads

>>725534190
Not as abusive as the Falcom, capcom (DD2 is specially bad) , stellar blade or even FF ones
Yet Zelda girl threads, splatoon fire emblem threads etc are mostly spared.

>>725534219
But I thought they called you an evil colonizer and to think about the teepee niggers or some gay shit. Fuck off niggerslav.

>>725534335
>

>>725534362
>they called you an evil colonizer and to think about the teepee niggers
wowwww who else says that 24/7 through all the media outlets

>>725534372
nigger even the nintendo threads are shill threads
is that what you want to hear to be satisfied in your relentless pursuit of tendies?
why don't you two fight to the death so we might be spared your eternal autistic shitflinging

>>725534430
>it's okay when russkikes do it
Die slavkike.

the only genuine shilling i've seen was for some reality tv show called "fish tank live" on tv. literally hundreds of consecutive (and often 3-5 simultaneous) threads, all going past bump limit for a show i had never heard of, never saw advertising for, never saw ANY of my friends or groups even mention it. i dont even know if its american or european. i dont know where people are watching it. i havent seen a single topic on /a/, /b/, /v/, or /tv/ generate that much engagement ever. well, except mlp, i guess. it was literally mlp levels. but at least mlp was real and you could find it out in the world. this shit was a complete mystery with zero redeeming qualities. i do not think it was natural in the slightest.

When I create new threads, I samefag the first 10 posts or so, but I try to be discreet about it (such as only posting after a bump)
If I don't do this they rarely hit bump limit

>>725534440
>your relentless pursuit of tendies?
Kek I love how you can't even hide you are an obvious tendie. So its okay to blame hk or e33 as shill threads but somehow doing the same with you tendies is being persecuted.
No shit people can see through your bullshit

>>725534601
>only shilling I've seen
How about every time an AssCreed comes out?

>>725527464 (OP)
i have only heard of 2 of those games
and i have only seen them shilled on youtube
so clearly they failed
and you op are a false flag psyop
>le reddit
>el reddit
>la reddit
kill yourself

>>725534337
I'm not gonna disagree, nintendo does get special privileges from the jannies, my point was that every game on this site has to deal with a schizo so it's funny to me when there's posts replying to them with
>oh but X is fine?
Jannies deleting threads about new video games because they don't like how popular they are is far worse and more annoying than some mentally ill retard imo

>>725527464 (OP)
oh no they are selling me games I end up buying and enjoying

what horrible monsters they are

>>725534532
>yes globohomo master i will fight for your cause
what a pathetic cockroach

>>725534647
normies love asscreed and it usually sells decently well (if i remember right). presence on /v/ isnt going to change that. most of the posting here is shitting on it, like with dustborn.

>posting in an actual video game thread about unfound secrets
>pruned and deleted
Can someone explain this shit what is even going on on this board now?

>>725534647
Never paid attention to the previous ones but the one with the nigger was clearly getting threads by ragebait poltroon tourists. Which I suppose does count as threads being made by shills, just not the same type of shills we're talking about ITT

>>725534849
Just fuck off already, you anti-White slavshit mongrel.

Zoomies and redditors learn about SEO: The Thread

>>725534892
Some people are making threads with hidden CP on the OP picture, which gets the entire thread nuked

>>725534860
>>725534924
I can't find the image specifically about AssCreed but here have this one instead
It's just us normalfags having a blast, wholly organic, Huzzah!

>>725534949
lol okay eglinitor

>>725534892
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/v3DlRnWoXUaxMdrzGohqOA/

>>725534892
>clearly violating the rules by posting about video games on the /v/ - Politics & Current News & Anime & Porn & Discord meetup & Reddit reposts & Xitter screencaps & E-celeb drama & VTumors & Shilling Central & The same bait posts over and over and over again
>surprised pikachu faces when his posts get nuked
you should be thankful you didn't get a 3 day vacation

>>725534998
Okay slant eyes slavkike.

>>725534993
This, except for every single thread about Deltarune/Undertale/Slay the Princess/Balatro/UFO 50/Look Outside/Fear & Hunger/Black Souls and basically anything else I personally hate as well.

>>725535010
Ok thank you that explains it lol
I’m frustrated because I’m interested in that stuff

>>725528501
damn you really got some fags with that

>>725527464 (OP)
Couldn't be me, I tell every OP to buy an ad.

The problem is when shills raid other threads
You see I can ignore ubisoft shilling far cry threads with their leaks pretend BUT not mentally ill faggots invading other threads thinking everyone is a secret shill

>>725527464 (OP)
also how deluded this person this the admin would stop it if they found out

if some motherfucker is using MY site to advertise some shit, I want w piece of the pie, pay me and continue doing what you are doing

>>725535035
your entire life is humiliation lol

>>725535062
>Every op but nintendo ones

>>725535092
You're a mixed race subhuman.

Niggerfaggot.
Curse vishnu.
Trump won.

>>725530658
I love videogames. You don't. KYS

>>725535062
Why buy an ad? Just post a thread and bump it every 30 to 60 seconds, spawning a new one every time the old one dies. No money required. Literally free. You might even bump a competitor's game off the board when you do it.

>>725535071
Tendies are hypocrites

It warms my heart to know everyone on the internet hates Indians

>>725535117
you spend all day in a chair astroturfing reddit and 4chan. you are a mollusc.

I think the most obvious one is shin with wuthering waves. He even managed to kill DNA by trying to associate wuwa with it kek

>>725535221
Threat your hiv, you downie mongoloid plebbitor.

>>725535091
>ESL
opinion discarded like shit on the street

>>725535313
>Threat
saar we are nato

>>725535273
Always makes me laugh when gachaniggers cry about other gachas. It's all the same cancer, friend, any normal person sees no difference between them

>>725529025
it was gone briefly but they probably realized it would make what they are doing advertising wise way too obvious, so they added it back (reporting a post for this probably still does nothing, especially if it's a post made as part of a client's paid ad campaign)