Are shills a real thing? Like does Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft really

>>381441567

no its just tinfoil hat paranoia

Gearbox legit shilled Borderlands 1 on here.

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>>381441567
Haha no, of course not, carry on with your video games :)

Also, have you heard of skyrim?

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>>381441567
Blizzard does for sure not sure about Sony and Nintendo though.

Hard to imagine, but some people do it for free

>>381441567
They're probably real, but much less prominent than /v/ believes.

>>381441653
Well, we don't know if there is none but if there is, who the fuck cares? It's your own fault if you fall for their marketing without conducting your own research before buying shit.

It's not specific to 4chan. Advertisements through forums and message boards is a old thing that's been done for a long time. Even paying to cover up blunders from search engines has been done. There was some racing game that had this happen to that's a good example but I can't remember it's name.

>>381441567
Not big companies. Smallers like >>381441680 would do it tho.

>>381441567
v is nothing more than bunch of shills, shitload of shitposters and bots, brewing infinite amounts of hatred among the kin. Run away, let the fire burn out.

>>381441567
Already been proven multiple times over the years. The big three have better methods of marketing and enough fanboys to shill for free.

you don't even have to be paid to be a shill, you could be doing it out of self-interest too or because you're loyal to the brand.

They're real, but if you let your paranoia compromise discussion of a video game you're just as cancerous as naked marketer.

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>>381441567
It's much, much worse. my friend.

Most people do it for free.

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>>381441985
>The big three have better methods of marketing and enough fanboys to shill for free.

>>381441567
I have certainly seen several images floating around of spammed threads that would suggest shilling was occuring, but compared to the amount of screeching about their prevalence, I doubt shills have much of an actual presence.

If people posted compelling evidence of shilling as often as they blindly accused anonymous posters of it, this board would undoubtedly improve significantly.

>>381441567
Yes, look at the catalog and honestly tell me you believe the same threads with the same pictures being posted daily isnt shilling.

>>381441653
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>>381442106

nice try shills

.04 c has been deposited into your account

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>>381441567
>>381441901
yes, how can anyone forget Battlefield's 3 dinosaur and /v/ - the vidya in Karkand map

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>>381441567
Look into this game if you want some insight at video game marketing in this method

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>>381441567
You're so silly anon!

>>381441567
Yes. But people trolling pretending to be shills is more common now. Marketers wouldn't be that retarded.

>People thinking it is possible to shill without being paid
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shill#English
Just accept that people can actually like games, however shitty you think they are and this place will be far better.

>>381442243
except people have been posting the same stupid threads daily almost since 4chans inception. consider milhouse or sakurafish.

Are some instances shilling? most likely, but there are also likely far far more that aren't.

have you people been hiding under a rock for the last 10 years, today's marketing = 90% shitposting on boards and social media, 10% actual marketing

>>381442353
Whatever happened with the dinosaur meme? I know it died out, but has Dice/EA ever mentioned about doing a dino mode in any of their games? They've always played around and tease, but I legit wanted a dino mode.

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oh boy time to dump some evidence because of newfags

>>381441567
No. But of course fanboys will shill whatever platform they like the best. Why would they pay for it when there are a ton of pcbros, ninten-yearolds, sonybros, and micro$hills who will do it for free? It literally makes no sense.

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>>381441567
Ubisoft shills are a real thing here, one of the marketing Ubisoft accounts baneposted on twitter and I wouldn't be surprised if the WE at the beginning of the new AC trailer was added there because of the memes

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>>381444092

Guerilla viral marketing is a real thing. They attempt to spark controversy to get people talking. Though I believe most people here are just really hardcore fanboys who defend Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Steam

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>>381441567
I fucking wish. I'd love to get paid to shitpost on /v/.

People sure like to forget, or weren't even here when that happened a couple years ago, when someone made a thread that read 1:1 to an advertisement you would read on some official site, it was announcing a new Assassing Creed game at the time, it also linked to a stream by Ubisoft that began JUST at the minute the thread itself went up, everyone called OP out on it and the thread was subsequently deleted, not too long after that people noticed that "advertisement" was removed as a report option in this site.

Yes, there is shills, yes, there is things being advertised here all the time.

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/pol/ shills are the biggest shitters in /v/

they don't even play games yet whine and get triggered over every little thing

>>381441567
We've had developers from almost every video game company on Earth posting here, what do you think?

Driv3r.

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>>381444241
>/pol/ is the biggest problem on /v/
>not gaffers and redditors

>>381441567
>does Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft really pay marketers to infiltrate boards?
There is actual proof out there of M$ and Sony hiring companies that do that sort of thing, but I haven't seen any hired by Nintendo yet

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>>381444241
>they don't even play games

exactly. remember that time when far cry 5 was revealed? only 2 threads on /pol/ and all of them are replied with "Go back to /v/"/ while this board got over 50 threads per minute

>>381443993
This type of shilling is going on now with a certain flop game.

Hint: It's Prey

>>381444430
>but I haven't seen any hired by Nintendo yet
They don't need to when their many rabid fans will dogpile anyone that says one of your games isn't literally perfect. Their 'guerilla marketing' is higher up on the chain.

Yes, Shills are really a thing, I didn't notice it on /v/, but on /fit/ monster literally started a meme as "sips" to advertise their awful drink as a work-out booster.

They absolutely are a real thing, but not on 4chan. On sites like reddit - absolutely.

On /v/ you'll get the occasional indie developer pushing their own game, but you won't get the kind of actual paid PR professionals shilling like you would on reddit or other major social media platforms.

>>381444535
So what you're saying is
Nintendo has loyal fans that like to talk about their games which gets them attention

while Sony and M$ hire actual paid shills to shitpost about their games for exposure?

>>381444582
>but not on 4chan. On sites like reddit - absolutely.
Absolutely on 4chan, nitwit. The format of the website is perfect for it.

>>381443885
well in BF4 we got T-Rex's roar in that giant disc map iirc

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>>381444582
newfag detected

>>381444458
The constant Far Cry 5 threads were made by literal shills and dumbass /pol/tards and redditors/neogaffers did the marketing for them by responding

It's not really M$ or Sony... it's more the game developers themselves pushing their latest pile of shit out to make sure people buy it. Starting a conversation about it gets people engaged and is enough to sway a purchase or two, especially on a video game board.

>>381444854
read it again, this time take a deep breath

>>381444683
Here's an example:
>nintendo makes reviewer aware that they are willing to not supply review copies in future
>reviewer knows that in the event they can't get the review up before the release of the game, their livelihood is at risk
>reviewer tows the party line (for example "this is a flawless game", "this is a groundbreaking moment for video games", "this is a game that will go down in history)
>nintendo's loyal fanbase goes ballistic when anyone speaks rationally about the game actually not being a perfect game literally without any flaw

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It's hard to say. Is it a publisher paying for advertising and a third party spamming every website they possibly can, or just some faggots role playing?

>>381441653
/v/ is more popular and mainstream than you think. They definitely shill here.

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The only actually confirmed, factual case of marketing on this board that I know of was Borderlands 2

There is strong evidence in other cases but no hard confirmation. And you never know just how far ones autism will take them when it comes to console wars.

>>381444416
Yes, you're correct.

>>381444703
Yea, i know but I was really hoping they would bring a dino mode or a dino game. Cod has fuckng zombies as their minigame, why not dinos?

>>381444994
>review score shitposters
>anything but kids and shitposters

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>not realizing most marketing budgets in (((current year))) leave room for viral/guerilla marketing campaigns.

>>381441567
there might be a few instances where it happens but its mostly falseflaggers and militant fanboys

No. The thing about 4chan is though that it's usually popular with 16-21 year olds. Every time people spam a shitty meme a new generation of faggots comes in, sees the overused memes and thinks they are actual things. When the PS3 launched the hottest meme was that the PS3 had no games, people who came in at that time basically adapted that mentality. This whole console wars with factions is also a result of that and falseflagging is only used so much because people actually believe they are part of a team.

>>381445157
Console wars are the biggest fucking problem right now. This gen is the worst this board has ever seen for that shit.

>>381445284
>buying american games
>who give 70%budget to marketing
>and everything else to their paycheks.

>>381445465
>When the PS3 launched the hottest meme was that the PS3 had no games, people who came in at that time basically adapted that mentality.
But the "PS3 has no games" was a meme because it literally had no games for like 4 years

>>381441567
The amount of shilling for shit games like Mafia 3 and Prey should make that an easy question to answer.

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>>381445635
But Prey was genuinely a good game and Mafia 3 was tasty /pol/ bait

>>381441773
/thread
Also what happened to the word "viral"? That used to be /v/ lingo for shilling a few years ago.

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>>381445745
>Mafia 3 was tasty /pol/ bait

go to the archives of both /pol/ and /v/ and compare the amount of threads. newfags like you are the reason why the /pol/ boogeyman exists

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No it's real, it's just way fucking rarer than people expect. There's games like Borderlands and Perfect Dark that were shilled here but they always have the same OP and the same marketer speak, and there's probably one or two smaller games where it's the devs posting about it to drum up interest.
What the retards on here don't understand is that you're not supposed to talk to these people, respond with "Shill" or "$.02 has been deposited into your account", you're supposed to ignore/report what they post and just move on with their day.
You have no idea how many fucking problems could be solved if everybody agreed to just stop fucking posting in porn/trap/political/troll/whatdidhemeanbythis/consolewar/waifu threads.

"Be the change you want to see in the world, also I'm gonna nuke the shit out of some countries." -Gandhi

>>381445764
memer faggot kids just started spamming it in any thread that said nice things about a game they didn't already like or know about and people got fucking sick of seeing it

>>381445573
And what did it spawn?

>ps4 has no games
>xbox one has no games
>wii U after a certain point has no games
>vita has no games
>switch has no games

Truly a stunning display of originality.

>>381445938
>Amount of threads

Read the threads. Majority of /v/ threads saw /pol/ cross boarders absolutely losing their shit over the notion of a black man killing white people. Such is to be expected of the alt right sjw equivalent.

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>>381446072
>dodging the question

again, check the archives

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>>381446146
There wasn't actually a question posed anon

>>381446146
>kids post /v/ shit on /pol/ and no one takes the bait
>those same kids post /pol/ shit and all the kids join in and meme it the fuck up and for the next 24 -48 hours almost every thread will be about a black person being in a new game because technically its a game so its not against the rules

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>>381441567
No.
Source:
Evolve "Shill"

>>381441567
No but smaller companies probably do

>>381441567
Developers definitely come here from time to time and some might even shill their games, but I doubt it's a serious as /v/ claims it to be. Most of the time it's just >REEEEEE STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE.

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Nintendo fans do it for free, but Ubisoft clearly hires people.

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>>381441567

What do do you think?

>>381441567
Yes it's a real thing anyone who says otherwise is dumb or a shill. Remember all those for honor threads a few months back? There are paid shills on every board don't ever think otherwise. Now do people get over paranoid over shills absolutely but to deny their existence cause a few paranoid faggots is like not believing in rape cause some people wore a charity belt or not believing trump won the presidency when everyone said just because someone like Alex Jones also said he did. My brother used to shill on /o/ for fora company back in 2009 so I know that there is far more shilling in the current year on one of the most popular boards.

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>Mega corporations with hundreds of millions in marketing budgets won't spare a few hundred bucks to have people keep the conversation about their brand and products positive

The shills don't win by making you believe they don't exist, They win by making you doubt that they do.

>>381447749
>$30 Million marketing budget
>Spending $5,000 to pay workers to shitpost on forums is nothing
>Hiring some retarded indie viral marketing company that mostly just wants to fill its portfolio and paying $250,000 is still nothing

>>381441653
Were you not here for the Hololens thread where it was proven that some guy showing pictures was some Indian Microsoft marketer?
Hell where you not here for the AssCreed Syndicate locked sticky?

>>381445226
those swedecucks couldn't even code their game right until DICE LA hopped in to fix everything they could and you ask for a dino mode?

>>381441773
I think most of the shills are just people working for those companies.

>>381449546
That was /v/ 8 years ago
it wasn't full of spergs and kids yet and was mostly people looking to fuck around and talk about games.
No one genuinely said "dinosaurs" as if it was the actual biggest problem, they were just fucking with OP

>>381447074
If you ever wonder why most shilling backfires and goes horribly wrong because they're trying too hard, this is why. It's all middle aged white suburban hipsters. Every one knows the dankest memes come from black twitter and people under 25.

>http://www.ayzenberg.com/our-team/

>>381450090
>No one genuinely said "dinosaurs" as if it was the actual biggest problem, they were just fucking with OP
yes I know that. it was clearly written in the picture
now about genuine "dino mode", I don't even know DICE or EA can pull that considering how bad Frostbite is for non-FPS and shooter games