What's the most astroturfed video game according to /v/?Last time I made this poll, I was adding most of the options as the thread went on, so I want to do it overhttps://strawpoll.com/7rnzV4XQLnO
>>731106081Mario and botw
>>731106081breath of the wild and its not even close
Fallout 76
>>731106081Every single gachaslop and chink game.
No undertale so shit poll and didn't vote
>>731106081like half the topics on /v/ at any time are point blank astroturfing.in the last couple of years its been interesting to see just blatant porn advertisements. like the sf6 threads are just softcore porn posting from shillsshit is stupid this website sucks and third wolrders need to be banned from here along with any mobile users
>no callistook faggot.
>>731106081>literally anything from Nintendo >TLoU >the monkey game that had 2 millions players on Steam >indies shilled on /v/ that nobody cares about IRL such as >>731107041
>>731106081Where's outer wilds?
>>731106765>>731106950>>731107041Learn what astroturfed means you absolute tards
>>731107147More traffic means more ads revenue to Hiro. It will never change and the worse could be ads in between posts like what happened on GameFaqs.
Horizon Zero DawnYou would get banned for posting any images/gifs that made it look bad No other game came close.
>>731107281>simulated or artificially created public support for something, generated by an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaignSounds exactly like deltarune/undertale threads
>>731106081This piece of shit was astroturfed only for a month but still was annoying as fuck.
>>731107281You mean shit that was shilled by third parties such as journos? Everyone is right then. Grassroot games are very few so it could be a more interesting discussion.
>>731106081None of these are astroturfed and you don't know what you're talking about. Triple A or big titles need not astroturfing on fucking /v/. However, there are actually paid shills on here that have outed themselves in the past but it's always for shitty indies that no one would've ever heard of otherwise. Pizza Tower is one of them
>>731106081>E33>Cyberpunk>Borderlands (any, Gearbox is massive on shilling Borderlands games here via viral marketing)in that order
>>731107182>literally anything from NintendoDo you have an example? I have never seen any astroturfing here for Nintendo
>>731107479Believe it or not but Sony shilled TLoU2 here on /v/ and got caught because of something unique in the image that only show up to the person using the account.Someone probably have the screenshot. Also EA did it a long time ago.
Lies of P
>>731106081Astroturfed here on /vee/ or in the "media"?
>>731107642The only one I can think of is BananzaNot a bad game but tendies genuinely thought that shit was GOTY material
if you are remotely oldfaggy you'd know borderlands 1/2 were the biggest shill campaigns on /v/ ever made
>>731106081Any chink game. Where Chinks Meet and Black Myth Wukong both stand out though.
>>731107642BoTW was an average game but it was shilled to the extremes by journos as the development coming exactly how TLoU became very popular. On /v/ it was 50/50 with lots of shitposting so its hard to tell.
>>731107479>However, there are actually paid shills on here that have outed themselves in the past but it's always for shitty indies that no one would've ever heard of otherwise.True, i remember like a year or 2 ago there were astroturf threads for some mouse game with a heart shaped hole in his chest. I noticed a common tactic for indie astroturf threads is constant fan art with every post. Like this no one indie game is getting threads out of nowhere and theres just a shit ton of art in each thread. Who is making this art for an obscure game that just came out. Normal discussion threads dont have this much fan art every few posts
>>731107725I prefer saying by the journos because we're all anonymous here so it's hard to tell sometimes.
>>731107794>tendies genuinely thought that shit was GOTY material>3D Platformer fans like 3D PlatformerI mean, I don't think that's astroturfing, they're just a loud vocal minority.
>>731107814second coming *
E33 by a fucking mile. Also The last of us 2 should be in the list not the first one.
>>731107725MediaI'm not putting games that are so shit that no amount of astroturfing can help, like concord, veilguard, etc
>>731106081Ubisoft games
>>731107909I remember when they tried to sell cardboard boxes. Sony is doing stupid shit while Nintendo is trying to compete with the biggest jews out there.
>>731106081Dragon Age 2, Alan Wake 2, The one redhead from playstation that Sony tries to push non stop
>>731107987They were both shilled but with TLoU2 it was pre-emptive instead of post launch.
>>731107725>200 game of the year award>not a single reason to play it
>>731107725media. the game was constantly shat on here for the shitty controls.
>>731108074Aloy? Yep and they killed Killzone for this ugly bitch.>placeholder statue LMAO
>>731108056>toy company makes toy company for kids>this is jewish>SONY supports marxists burning down cities>just stupid shitOk
>>731107827>normalSomething that doesn't happen on /v/ becauae of retards posting in this thread>AAA, must be shills>gacha, must be shills>indie; popular, must be shills>indie; not popular, must be shills>high player count, must be shills>low player.count, must be shills>positive comments about game, must be shills>negative comments about game, must be shills>not by english speaking dev, must be shills>video game fanart, must be shills>etc etc etcNo one wants to actually talk about games here, they kist want to prevent others from talking about games
>>731107987E33 blew everyone's mind because people forgot that devs can make likeable characters instead of nu-Bioware/Obsidian self-inserts for edgy weirdos to the point where they will forgive corridor level design and 3 niggas in a row QTE combat.
>>731108345>/v/ *because >they *just
>>731108230You're joking right? Most consumers of Nintendo products are adults with the blues for their childhood.Unless these threads are made by underageb& that is. The jewish part is selling trash at high prices and nobody bats a fucking eye about it. >Xbone was shat on relentlessly but Switch being practically a 360 pro was ok somehow.
>>731106081balls gay 3do you really expect me to believe that dopamine fried normalfags can actually play and enjoy something as niche as an isometric turn based crpg that took hundred hours to beat?
>>731108345>Something that doesn't happen on /v/ becauae of retards posting in this threadGo look in a deltatroon thread and those threads are mod protected as ive been banned most for replying in those threads
There are SIX Peak threads on the catalogue right now
>>731108483There's a reason why the gameplay is never shown or posted. Only screenshots of dialog camera or non official art.
>>731106081>>731105618
>>731108680I don't know what trash this is so i'm hiding the threads. I swear some posters post pseudo generals here daily because all the threads i hide is the same thing over and over.
>>731108557>contribute negative value>get kicked outIf you meet someone and they smell like shit, maybe they stepped in shit. If you everyone you meet smells like shit, you might just have stepped in shit my friend. The bias is that the mods probably just actually like Undertale so lurk there and ignore most other threads. I wish you were banned from more threads, like this one, frankly.
>>731106081onirism had like 26 max players until its 1.0 release and then it had 40 yet it gets multiple daily threadsI dont think it gets any more shilled than that outside of that time borderlands 2 was half the catalog with the same promo box art
>>731106081Any and all Chinkshit.
Blue Prince
>>73110894999% of the threads add negative value, why not ban most posts then if only positivity is allowed?And 50 deltatroon threads a day is negative value for the catalog thats why they banned deltatroon temporary
And niggers will say stellar blade lol. You fucks are so miserable.
>>731106081You love to see /v/ being right about something for once.
/v/ complaining about astroturfed games is really ironic and funny when all boards always discuss new and seasonal releases like /a/ and /tv/.
>>731108949You're a janitor. Any other non protected thread, anon call each others nigger faggot retards without issues. Like >>731108557said, he wouldn't get b& in any other threads.Kill yourself and go back to /j/
>>731109290/v/ has always hated video games.
>>731109215>e33 still has the majority of the votesFUNNYROOOOOO
>>731109365You fucking wish trannie
>>731109290There's a way to talk about videogames and there's a way to be a faggot about them like 50%+ of the catalogue. >>731109467lol u mad
>>731106081Lol, v remembers only the last 3 games + grudge in cp77
>>731109119how is people talking about video games on the video game board negative value, I think you're just fucking delusional and mad at other people for enjoying things. There's this great community called reddit where you can perfectly curate things to your taste if you can't stand other people having fun with something though.
>>731106081A lot of these aren't really even astroturfed and are just good games or have passionate fanbases.
>>731106081Palworldthat one Chinese Monkey gameDispatch
>>731109461>gaynine retard of course the fresher game will have more votes. IT EVEN FOLLOW THE PATTERN
>>731106081E33 won every single award and is mid as fuck. E33 surpassed TLoU2 in terms of blatant and undeserved shilling. That's a very impressive feat. They even got people to push a narrative that it was made by 33 people with zero budget. How retarded can slurpers be?
WuWa, though it's just one guy doing it
>>731109564look in those thread and most aren't even discussing the game and just posting lewd crap and talking about wanting to fuck animals. You dont need 50 threads to discuss it and they clearly aren't
>>731109529My dude if you hate spam or popular media you would never survive other boards where they spam the entire catalog with the same topic about the same show because they find it hilarious.
>>731109712I don't know I just think you're weak and probably don't even like baneposting
>E33 above Horizon Zero Dawnlol, absolutely retarded recency bias besides, prior to E33 sweeping the gay awards, everyone liked the game
>>731109717Luckily for me and many there's hide or filters to deal with unwanted threads.Someone once said he only had 20 threads unfilterd at one point.
>>731109791I think youre a big fan of the game and are currently posting in those threads
>>731106081i will never disrespect jannies again if they start deleting gacha threads
>>731109804>actually voting on this shitYou're retarded
>>731109804Horizon is absolutely shilled, but it didn't make the entire catalogue unusable for months.
>>731109875I think you're wrong because I'm one of the four people that still talks about WoD and occasionally just lurk Yasuke threads and general Ubisoft crap because I love to hate those guys. I also liked paper mario threads before it just devolved into people complaining about chapter 4. Speaking of that I never finished my CH4 playthrough in Deltarune and I keep saying I'll get back to it but I've been playing Risk of Rain Returns instead.What about you, what games you played lately, or do you waste all your time on this godforsaken cesspool of negativity and waifus instead?
>>731110375>i play only astroturfed games
>>731109215Have Invisigal get revealed as a jeet in S2 and watch all the threads about the game disappear
>>731109804>everyone liked the gameLie
Using the data I gathered, I've been thinking of doing something similar to player's choice, where /v/ narrows down what the most astroturfed game isI can't decide if it should start from top 15>top 10>top 5 or top 10>top 5>top 3 though
>>731106081Elden Ring was astroturfed harder than any other game on /v/ and it's not even close
>>731106081I think this is not a good way to capture the situation. Astroturf generally isn't on a per game level. It's mostly on a per publisher level. EA, Ubisoft, MS, Sony, Tencent It's easier to spot when the game is terrible though. >>731107405It's pretty clear that Sony had amped up their operations, thinking that they would combine the PS5 pro push with concord. When concord completely shit itself, they pivoted all that spent marketing into astro bot, and that included the ground team.>>731107479Bullshit. We've seen the job listings before. The marketing companies literally advertise it as a service. It was especially obvious when it's the same format, opeing pictures straight from the press release for Avowed, then Indiana Jones, then outer worlds 2. With indiana jones it was especially obvious because that requires an RTX card, so the spammers coudn't even create their own screenshots, as they have nothing that runs it.>>731107642The tricky part for nintendo is that they have mentally insane rabid fanboys who are the equivalent of Disney Adults, and they play their marketing and pr shit very close to the chest so it's harder to pick out anything that isn't blatant above the line ad spend. >>731107827Mad Rat Dead. Weird japanese game, like a platformer crypt of the necrodancer about a dead lab rat with an artificial heart that needed to move to the beat or die. I liked it. I didn't percieve it as shilling, but it came and went so fast that I didn't notice much.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXruawSmges> indie astroturf threads is constant fan art with every post.One of the tipoffs of the big corporate shill shit is that they don't have the budget or passion to make OC, and they generally can't do a good job because they generally haven't played the game and aren't in it for love. In the case of the indies, I suspect marketing is by someone on the team, and the social media manager would be tracking fanart anyways. .
The most astroturfed game on /v/ is actually Fallout 3. Bethesda vs non-Bethesda Fallout threads have been going on daily for over a decade because Bethesda is obviously very upset about everybody liking Interplay and Obsidian's entries better. These threads usually pit Fallout 3 and New Vegas against each other specifically so the result is Bethesda emplolyees are spending most of their time defending Fallout 3 instead of 4 or 76.
>E33 wins the poll both times
still have no idea why there were so fucking many baldur's gay bear 3 defenders everywhere. It was so goddamn artificial.same with metaphor. That shit was hated but had people shilling it all over.Borderlands for legacy pick.
>>731110880This
>>731111182Larian are really fucking annoying, they already had their shills here as soon as the Divinity trailer dropped and for at least a week.
easy>game i likenot shilled>game i dislikeshilled
>>731109697One guy is making all the VII Remake threads.Gacha is very popular and although it might seem like it's one person, it probably isn't.
>>731109190>preemptive seetheGeg not beating the shill accusations.
>>731106081>bethesda games are not even on there>when they have 20 threads at any given time, and they always have the same posts in them>no vtmb>put on bg3 but conveniently left out infinity engine games, or bioware in generalWew lad, it's always been rpgs in general and nothing else comes close. I'll take 10 billion gacha threads over one rpg thread and there are NO exceptions. If you post this shit you are absolutely ruining this website.
Even if you hate E33 or Baldurs gay 3 or tendie shit the fact is that they still sell, if somebody shares me a screenshot of their hours played on Steam or whatever I'll believe it's true same if they just tell me they like it without further explanation. Now someone explain why anyone here would give the slightest of a fuck about The Last of Us 2 back in the day and no clue, even on /v/ the posters remaining months after release was just waifu bullshit and whining about the people not being smart enough to understand the story while in the real world there's a reason why Last of Us 3 does not exist and Naughty Dog went quiet for years, Sony went full damage control mode after the cutscene leaks and I swear I remember posts across social media in general getting deleted and 4chan being a target wouldn't be out of the question, nobody talked positively about that game without having something to prove or someone to own on the internet
>no pubgit's like you guys don't remember the insane shilling for this game here
>>731112028VTMB doesn't count because threads for the first one are just people lamenting the absolute state of modern vidya/tabletop while talking about replaying it for the 5th time. Threads for the second one don't count either because those were just full of people rightfully calling the game shit while the world's most obvious shill samefagged until 404
>>731106081Probably Borderlands 1 back in the day. Retards seriously pulled the 1 milion unique weapons!!111 line
>>731106081.
>right next to each otherThat was easy
>>731106081I think E33 and BG3 were the most to me.BG3 it was very obvious because there was never any discussion of the gameplay. And nothing of substance.
currently its hytale but the year just started
everyone that posted in this thread who is not me is a faggot retard
>>731106081>No Ubishit gamesYou are fucking retarded.
Where's the incest game that has a thread up 24/7 for ages now?Where's the steam deck option?
>>731112967>VTMB doesn't count because threads for the first one are just people lamenting the absolute state of modern vidya/tabletop while talking about replaying it for the 5th timeNo it's 2-3 people making a permanent general and bumping it for 20 hours every day for months on end. That's literal astroturfing. Like when you're asking dumb question you already know the answer to, pretending to be new, reposting the same things over and over, we've entered the territory of offensive psychological warfare now.
>>731106081I don't see Indivisible, which was shilled and protected by mods so fucking much during the crowdfunding period that half of /v/ was the same circle of paid marketers rotating the exact same information ad infinium. I'm halfway glad that the game itself failed just because of that.Also they permanently fucked up skullgirls general but that's a different story.
>>731113890>Where's the incest game that has a thread up 24/7 for ages now?It's under 'Expedition 33' instead of 'Clair Obscur'
>>731113926>Like when you're asking dumb question you already know the answer to, pretending to be new, reposting the same things over and over, we've entered the territory of offensive psychological warfare now.Sounds like the Outer Wilds threads, how the fuck is that not an option btw?
>>731107387>Sounds exactly like deltarune/undertale threadsYou mean the threads that have intentionally been ruined by the jannies for the past 6 months and were banned the day it came out because Toby didn't pay the fagmins for this board?Those deltarune threads?
>>731114031Outer Wilds threads aren't up 24/7. Buy we have the same exact rpg threads every single day. And I can guarantee you're an rpg nigger trying to erode discussion of every other genre. It's downright Jewish
>>731114128>Outer Wilds threads aren't up 24/7They are close to
>>731113926>20 hours every day for months on end.When was the last time you actually saw this happen?
>>731114181>They are close toGo look at how many threads there are on fallout and elder scrolls right now. Don't come back until you count them all. There is absolutely no excuse for this shit, these games are over a decade old. Once a month is too often. I'm playing games that take a billion times more effort and i dont make threads on them at all. Enough is enough. Move on.
>>731114103Ive been banned in those threads before my post went live, jannies defend those threads
There's literally a steam deck thread made by redditors up 24/7 on this board and it's not an option?
>>731106081>What's the most astroturfed video game according to /v/?Borderlands, 110%. "Shill" and "viral marketing" were barely used on here at all until mid-2009. That was all because of this game. >(any, Gearbox is massive on shilling Borderlands games here via viral marketing)Not just Gearbox, a lot of 2K published games from 2009-2015ish. It was very obvious with Spec Ops The Line, Bioshock Infinite, and XCOM The Bureau.
>>731106081Where is Stellar Blade and Blue Archive?
>>731114445VIRAL!!!!
>>731110479>WoD>astroturfedBro this shit is fucking dead and I only got into it because of a tomboy goth I met irl to play tabletop with (she's gay)Kill yourself
>>731114335You can't bring up steam astroturf threads here
>>731114530This is proof of nothing especially since there's constant anti Steam seething on this board 24/7 timmy
>>731106081>TLOU Part 2This is #1 and it's not even close, because the overwhelmingly negative reaction to the leaks exposed just what an enormous divide there was between the player class and the industry class. Sony blatantly bought out the awards in 2020, and some reviewers with a shred of conscience even outright came forward and said their jobs/outlets were at serious risk if they didn't give the game a 10/10.>Expedition 33Fake indie game made by a studio offshot from Ubisoft and headed by a wealthy trustfund baby, wrapped up in a bullshit "underdog" story and giving hollow lipservice to people's issues with the mainline industry without actually condemning anything specific about it or in a meaningful way.>Donkey Kong BananzaSwitch 2 owners desperately trying to justify their console purchase by worshipping the system's first big non-bundle exclusive. What makes it stink like shit is a lot of them claiming it's the best game Nintendo has made in a long time (if not ever), while being incredibly vague about what makes it so great.
>>731114283Jannies only protect their dedicated retard for that thread they hate the actual game.
>>731107281>NOOO NOT THE GAME THAT 'I' PERSONALLY LIKE!Botw is objectively trash, sales don't matter because normies with no filter are the majority.
E33 is by far the most egregious one
>>731106081Cyberpunk 2077 and Silent Hill f easily. Why is Hades on here? People were shitting on it for being "woke"
>>731114720Nobody cares enough about Epic to make threads to shitpost them except when Tim does something new and embarrassing lmao
>>731114637Ive got banned for threads that were critical about steam but never critical about epic or whatever
>>731106081Where is Stellar Blade? The constant artificial intelligence wife nonsense spams and woke war shit was annoying as fuck
>>731106081>E33 wins the poll twice>both times the thread gets swarmed by totally-not-shills leaping to it's defense Recency bias my ass.
>>731114924Yeah and it had thousands of unique responses because TF2 is /v/ culture
>>731112028>Bethesda gamesThose are far from being astroturfed. Skyrim still pulls in 20k+ players a day on steam alone, 15yrs after launch. Special Edition alone has 10b downloads on nexusmods. Fallout is back on everyone's tongues because of it's divisive TV show.
>>731106081Any FOTM. It's fucking disgusting and jannies should do an hero for not doing anything about it
>>731106081The most astroturfed one is the horse one bar none. At least every other shilled game takes time from people for gameplay.>E33There is no love for that game on 4chan. It can't be shilled if nobody likes it.
>>731106081genuinely don't understand how people are picking anything but Horizon
>only one mention of dispatchFucking horseshit that got endlessly shilled in here. Is it still a thing? I've filtered all of the related terms. Deltafaggot too.
>>731114471I'm curious. How are those astroturfed, let alone among 'the most astroturfed'? Because threads exist?
