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?
>>731106081E33
>>731111182BG3 had coomers with bad taste, and homosexuals as it's natural posting. Metaphor had fatlus, and people who thought they could get the fairy or hulklenburger.>>731115868Blue Archive is Nexon, which is infamous for aggressive marketing, that breaks rules, like that pay for reviews thing that got pulled from steam. They also hire porn artists to make shit for comicet. The suspicious thing for me about BA threads here is that they DON"T turn straight into autisim, literaly porn, or autistic porn, but I haven't actualy given enough of a fuck to care. I'm sure there's some natural interest, but it's just like how e33 has natural interest, but it's not the dude spamming innane shit with pics straight from the presskit, .
Add World of WarcraftThe constant "WE'RE GOING HOME BROS" Wojak threads were pretty blatant
>>731106081Real answer without recency bias: Borderlands 1
>>731115169>Those are far from being astroturfed. Skyrim still pulls in 20k+ players a day on steam aloneWait until you find out how many people are playing call of duty.>Fallout is back on everyone's tongues because of it's divisive TV showNo? It's only "divisive" if you're a bethestard, there is ALWAYS an excuse for some giant corporation to spam their IP on social media, this doesn't work as an excuse here and if it did there would never be any room to discuss anything. It's VERY clearly a problem and extreme bias on the mods part. It's not even entertaining shitposting, it's so boring its making me nostalgic for anal vore spam. Holy moly, the mental gymnastics people go through to justify garbage, fire the mods responsible for allowing this, they aren't cut out to be here.
e33
>>731113706imagine having a trans man video game statue in your country lol
>>731106081the kusomimi "horse" phone "game"
>>731106081Mortal Shell was pretty bad. Especially when it turned out they were using stolen animations and shills ran damage control for weeks.
>>731116784imagine seeing a butch and thinking "tranny"
>>731106081E33>very simple RPG>looks like shit>runs like shit>lacks polish>has tons of graphical glitches>Asset flip made with AI and Asset store slop
>>731116685God you are a fucking moron if you don't think the Fallout TV show isn't woke tranny garbage, get the fuck off this board you retarded faggot>call of duty has a lot of playersMost of them are subhuman normies and literal niggers who are too dumb to use reddit let alone 4chan, holy disingenuous "woman" arguement batman
>>731117245>God you are a fucking moron if you don't think the Fallout TV show isn't woke tranny garbageGood, no reason for you to post about it then, you wouldn't watch that, right? You aren't engaging in shitty media just to be upset and whine right? I want to discuss good video games, I don't want to see a catalogue full of shitty rpgs.>Most of them are subhuman normies and literal niggers who are too dumb to use reddit let alone 4chanWho do you think bethesda games are for? Are you serious right now? /v/ is dying because its holding the gates open for bethestards. The more bethestards that come in the worse the board gets. Its no different than if the board had been flooded with cawadooty kids, and in fact they're here now and posting in 3x3 threads, bethesda has brought them here.
e33 sisters...
>>731117463I consider e33 to be square adjacent, these are very clearly enjoyed by the same very subversive and annoying group of people.
that dispatch capeshit game
>>731108978should've seen the thread when one anon got nuked and 40% of the posts was him replying to himself
>>731117378I don't like Fallout, but I think you're kind of a retarded tranny to think that that is the hill to die on or that normies like something like New Vegas. Your opinions are shit, you're probably a bad person, and nobody likes you in real life or here for a reason.
>>731117673>that normies like something like New VegasNew Vegas is #10 on reddit's voted top video games of all time. #1 is skyrim by the way. These games are ambrosia for normalfags.
>>731117773I wouldn't know, I don't use reddit
I just don't understand how this isn't aggressive astroturfing, there are like 5 pages worth of threads on this over the past 6 months. And this is only like one of 50 thread templates rotated through every single day.
>>731118139And this isn't even like 5% of the threads hes made with the image, he's just resizing it the image now>>731079374Different hash, same shitty spam. Same thing with threads like these >>731116102Everyone knows this thread with the same exact image is made every single day. How many threads are like this, that get made every single day, and why are they all RPGs? The amount of spam that's allowed is ridiculous, there's almost no room for anyone else here.
>>731118139One person obsessively posting about something is not "astroturfing"
>>731118403Yes it is>Astroturfing is the deceptive tactic of creating a fake grassroots movementIts literally the definition of astroturfing. Flooding the board with garbage to focus all discussion on it is literally astroturfing.
>>731110341E33 is only getting spammed now because people are (You) sluts and it is literally the easiest fucking (You)'s ever. Case in point: this entire fucking thread
>>731118481Astroturfing inherently and fundamentally requires there to be monetary and/or political gain for the person doing it. Please tell me what fucking (((group))) benefits for shilling a mod of fallout 3 that Bethesda actively pretends doesn't exist. Astroturfing is when Sony shills their latest slop on here with inorganic posts, obsessive grognards talking about things they liked when they were 14 are the cornerstone of this entire site.
>>731118481One person is not a grassroots movement
Cope and seethe
>>731106081>strawpoll
>>731118606>Astroturfing inherently and fundamentally requires there to be monetary and/or political gain for the person doing it>obsessive grognards talking about things they liked when they were 14 are the cornerstone of this entire siteNo, its a "cornerstone" of rpg codex raiding the site and trying to astroturf it, as a form of cultural warfare. This is "political" in that sense. And you've outted yourself now.And I'm sure you've stirred up plenty of shit in this thread, because anything that isn't a shitty vatnigger rpg is just getting in the way of shitty vatnigger rpg threads getting spammed. Must be real inconvenient when you have to bump your 80 RPGs threads slightly faster because one person on the board wants to discuss an actual video game.
>>731118771What the fuck are you talking about I only play Slay the Spire because no other deckbuilders are good, what shizobabble is this, fuck you, I'm doing another Ironclad run and fucking dying at Gremlin Nob because I'm still bad at that game fuck you this is a waste kill yourself no one will miss you
>>731118582Christ dude did you just join this site last week? Clearly you weren't hear around the time E33 released.
>>731118843Too late to back out now, you smelly ass gaslighting nigger golem
>>731118904People like you are the reason nobody uses this fucking site anymore. Between the shills and the bait, we have to deal with absolutely useless faggots like you who jump into anyone trying to talk about video games while you tilt at windows, and also fuck this DPS race boss I didn't get any good damage cards. I love you Ironclad but you suck ass.
>>731106081What's the point of even pointing out that games are astroturfed? No amount of bitching about a particular game is going to change people's minds on what they think of them. Just make threads about the games you like and ignore the ones you don't like. Basic bitch people have basic bitch tastes, wow, shocking.
>>731119178>People like you are the reason nobody uses this fucking site anymoreGood, get these rpg niggers off of this site yesterday, and you can fuck off doubly fast for defending that shit and playing retarded ass roguelite deckbuilders. Get the fuck out of here and do not come back. You're not posting anything I want to read, you are of no value to me.
Transform for 18 damage, Offering is nice, Armaments, eh could be worse.
>here comes the image spam and attempt to derail the thread now that he's been caught
FUCK
>>731118856No, i've always been here.The E33 spam got infinitely worse after the game awards because it's easy contrarian (You)'s. When E33 dropped in april, people were shocked it was good and then it snowballed from there, with most discussion centered around gooning for maelle, and the gameplay (with a decent amount of people calling it out for being standard anime turnslop just made palatable westerners)i don't think a game being a surprise hit and thus getting discussion is very surprisingit popped off here for a little bit and discussion dropped off as it always does, devolving to "AAAAHHH MAELLE UOHHHH" or "HNNGGGG BAREFEET"once the gay awards rolled around and it swept (which was obviously gonna happen given the entire year), suddenly OMG THIS GAME WAS ASS THE WHOLE TIME!!! /V/ HATED IT FROM THE BEGININNG! EVERYONE WAS SHILLING ITTT IT SHOULDN'T HAVE WONNNN 100 threads on how AI was used in an asset, 100 more threads on how the dev is actually nepo baby and he should have made all of the money to make the game on his own or something, 100 more threads on how acshkully it's not indie, and on and on
>>731118771Why would codex of all places even try to raid /v/? They just open alt accounts for shitposting, and if that's not enough for them, they crosspost on HQ too.
I might make it to the boss but I don't think I'm making it past them.
>>731119469>When E33 dropped in april, people were shocked it was good uhh no. it was always called out for astroturfing since launch (once 4chan was no longer down). Shit was 100% obvious from the beginning
>>731106081>No Stellar BladeOP is a gookshill
>>731106081Anything Korean. Remember the first beserker being shilled everywhere? Amazing isn't it. If Nexon is involved it's probably fake as fuck engagement
>>731119579e33 was actually good sorry friendYeah not sure this shop is helping with Hex Ghost, Fire Breathing could maybe edge me over though. If only I'd gotten darkstone before I got two curses.
>>731119510>Why would codex of all places even try to raid /v/They're openly doing it and spamming their faggy rpg chart here now because the mods stopped banning it. And one of them was caught on /vrpg/ spamming because he was literally just copy pasting replies on multiple sites like a bot, and it was traced to a reddit account with tens of thousands of posts of mentally ill astroturfing on that site. It was a russian guy called luj1 or something like that.Obviously RPGs aren't interesting or fun to play, so they just spend all their time culture warring and shitposting instead.
>>731119595It's definitely up there but honestly, I completely forgot this game existed. Now that you've reminded me, yeah it had a ridiculous shilling campaign.Kinda says a lot about the game that it's so easily forgotten with that massive a campaign behind it.
>>731106081>>731119595
>>731119579>astroturf is when.... discussion of new game>>731119595I don't think Stellar Blade had actual shills, just insufferable autistic retards gooning and trying to turn the game into culture war shitonly the first level of that game was good, combat is fun but the rest is actually shit
>>731119751This, too, was unfortunately vatniggers and it wound up being some mentally ill polish guy. Honestly, /v/ would greatly benefit from banning eastern europe and russia, even moreso than india or china.
>>731119691So it's just one guy who crossposts across multiple sites, codex being one of them, and you pin it on the whole forum? They hate him over there too. Slavs are some of the most batshit insane and persistent posters, easily bad enough to get entire ISPs perma banned in some places.
Aaaaack>>731119846I dunno if that's true, maybe if only because Sony and other shillfarms based out of India would just VPN evade
Slow but easy burning elite fight because the game threw three fucking feel no pains at me in four floors.
>>731106081E33 for sure
>>731119861>So it's just one guy who crossposts across multiple sitesNo, its several people from there and they openly brag about doing it. And the source is irrelevant. Its not "X site is bad" the root of the problem is that "X game is bad". There needs to be common sense moderation that recognizes there shouldnt be 24/7 generals on /v/ about 10+ year old single player games. That's common sense. If they couldn't just spam rpgs on a cycle and bump them all day they wouldn't be here. But that weakness in administration encourages them, and they'll keep getting bolder and bolder. Just remove RPGs from /v/ entirely. Send it to /vg/. The mod happily sends gachashit there, how is bethesda any better than gachashit? Start treating this garbage as it really is. There is already a whole board for RPGs. Either delete that board so they can stop nesting there and spilling into here, or send them there. Don't just lazily sit around and let both fester.I can't discuss video games on /v/ any more. I have to use discord. There is no one left on /v/ capable of discussing video games with me because all they touch is slop. Even if its brand new they won't play a game, they'll only touch what is trending on twitter with normalfags. This has to stop. Get the RPGs out. Crack down on normalfags ruining this site, because they aren't even bringing traffic, they're just killing this place.
>>731114283Link your posts that got you banned.
>>731106081Horizon is the most manufactured success in the history of entertainment.Any other answer is wrong.
>>731107661This one?
>>731120056You can't discuss video games anymore because you're a faggot who goes into a NIGGERMAN HELP ME spiral when you see a Fallout thread. You have to just be baiting because if you actually cared you'd talk about how 1 in 3 threads have nothing to do about videogames at all and are coffee or twitter screencap threads
>>731108345While I know what you mean, the fanart thing is a very true one.
>>731120187>You can't discuss video games anymore because you're a faggot who goes into a NIGGERMAN HELP ME spiral when you see a Fallout threadThere are no other threads on video games. I'm scrolling through the catalogue and its all shitty movie games and rpgs. No one is playing video games on /v/ any more because the spam has pushed all that out.
>>731120056>RPGs bad>shooters bad>gacha badWhat do you even play then, bing bing wahoos or roblox?
>>731120169This. >Genshin skin for some fucking reason>statue>a fucking lego game, as well as lego sets>absolutely zero discussion here, outside of how ugly the mc is>forcibly bundled in every single ps sale, and then numbers are bragged about>never seen a single person mention it irl ever>never seen anyone wear merch irl
>>731108978>>731117662Huh. I just thought it was pedophiles. >>731119510It's the leftypol part of traditional RPGs, the people making Rudi in WOD, and banning half elves. They're the ones spamming that shitty woke games list. Note that by them I mean, just a few leftypol hyper autismos from there. >>731119818I read that as more leftypol vs coomer shitposting. Plus some companywars garbage. If Shiftup were remotely interested in shilling, they'd push nikke.
>>731120219No! You faggot! The problem is that of the 36 top threads on this board right now, only 20 of them are actual videogame threads! And only one is a Fallout thread! Kill yourself!
