What's the difference between a hype thread and a shill thread?
nothing
literally nothing
>>329716213
None. Shilling is a /v/ term used instead of STOP LIKING WHAT I DONT LIKE.
>>329716286
if you don't notice the blatant shilling sometimes i feel bad for you
Subtle things that are actual feelings coming from a normal person and an automated reptilian bot programmed to emulate the soul of the goys so they can infiltrate your community like body snatchers.
It's subtle, but you can tell them apart. The Jewptilians can mimick us, but can't never be like us.
>>329716286
>hurr durr hurr durr durr
Hype is generated by fans while shills are paid to create hype. The problem is telling the two apart us a guessing game. This is without including false flaggers who pretend to be shills to get people to hate a game
>>329716213
Hype is people actually looking forward to something while shilling is just marketing.
>>329716339
Let me guess, all of the games being shilled happen to be games you don't like?
>>329716454
The real issue here is that "paid shills" has happened (with proof) less times than you can count your fingers on one hand. Yet the word is thrown around in literally every single thread.
>>329716213
If it's not on the /v/ list of approved games, any threads on it will be labeled as shill. That's really it. That and /v/ likes to think it's an important enough place to attract lots of shilling when it's very likely the least populous video games board across the main forum sites, one that in general carries opinions no one else does to be contrarian.
>>329716581
So because there isn't proof every time - it has happened less often?
Whats your proof for this?
Fact is - this place is an extremely easy and nice place to viral market stuff - not just because of anonymity but because of the heavy snowballing effect of the "culture" here, not to mention falseflagging which in the end - will accomplish the very same thing.
a hype thread talks positively of the game, these typically don't exist
a shill thread is any thread that talks about the game in any shape or form
>>329716581
Only the bad shills get caught.
>>329716762
I don't need to prove that it hasn't happened. I also don't care.
If someone wants to advertise their game, good on them, let a mod handle IP banning them if they are BY ANY MEANS breaking any rules. I'm sick and tired of newfags crying through entire threads about it, without saging as well.
Personally, I know that if it's a game that I like and would consider playing myself then it's probably a hype thread. On the other hand, if it's an objectively shit game that only a retard would play it's a shill thread. I should start using a trip so that everyone will know to trust me when I tell them what kind of thread it is.
>>329716762
>implying /v/ would be a good target for shilling
Yeah I'm sure /v/ - Contrarianism and Shitposting really attracts big developers
One group of assholes is paid
>>329716581
There is A LOT of blatant false flags and stirring up controversy for the sake of it for meaningless petty themes all the time.
No sane person would do every FUCKING DAY the same topic about PS4 asinine sales or the Nintendo numbers and shit all the time if it wasn't a shill fighting another shill for their ground in here.
I imagine /v/ threads like two high execs being extremely vocal against each other dressed up like Steve Buscemi in a highschool talking all the cool memes to impress the "dudes" and the same jew watching both like roman gladiators from above, and the normal /v/ goer just plays fucking games.
Shills are paid by the publisher. Hype faggots simply don't know better.
RIP MGSV
RIP FO4
>>329717068
>No sane person would do every FUCKING DAY the same topic
I think you severely underestimate NEET manchildren.
>>329716213
Shilling is artifical hype.
Hype threads are for games you like and shill threads are about games you dislike.
>>329717068
I think >>329716803 is correct though. You can pretty much not discuss any game, especially not if it's released within the last 6 months, without it being a shill-war.
There isn't one. Any publicity is good publicity.
If you actually try to talk about video games, you're a shill.
If you post e-celeb, console wars, porn, or shitposting, you're not.
That's /v/ logic for you.
>>329717108
MGSV and FO4 were both great.
>>329717068
>No sane person would do every FUCKING DAY the same topic about PS4 asinine sales or the Nintendo numbers and shit all the time if it wasn't a shill fighting another shill for their ground in here.
Shitposters are a lot more common than you think.
>>329716650
>329 million posts
>least populous
>>329717362
As great as getting two paychecks from two shit companies, I guess.Eat shit and die.
>>329716213
One is made by a guy paid to make them, the other does it for free
>>329717447
>the majority of these posts are like yours or mine
>>329717447
>implying post number is indicative of population, especially when the average post:poster ratio for most large threads is around 2:1 or 3:1 on /v/
Also I bet that number is larger for other sites
hype threads can be for any game, released 20 years ago or just got announced, if you havent played it and you really want to, these threads usually contain 6 or more seperate series by different publishers on diferent consoles, usualy but not allways of different genre.
shill threads are almost about a game JUST about to be launched, majority are just postive comments on games that were knee jerk negative reactions. these threads contain only one or two games in discussion, often by the same publisher and very rareley seperate genres or anything brought up that could compare them or any inquires as to fault finding.
>>329716213
>2016
>still believing hype threads are healthy
>still believing hype threads are no different from shill threads
>>329717004
It doesn't, so don't let /v/'s (Yes, every poster) narcissism dictate that narrative.
Am I the only one who thinks anti shill threads and false flag shilling is worse a problem then actual shilling/fanboy threads now?
Pretty much every game now has a ton of people spamming threads pretending to be shill threads and people always fall for it and think the game is being shilled and then whine about any legitimate discussion over it
it's happened to literally ever major game that's came out the past 6 months or so.
How to show off that you only browse /v/ when you're bored of reddit. >>329718908, >>329717004
>>329718613
gibe sauce
>>329719138
People who complain about other people who like something are invariably more annoying than the people they complain about.
>>329719195
>implying it's not true
Or are you one of those people who think /v/'s ironically hivemind of contrarian opinions reflects what the rest of the internet thinks and thus brings in shills?
>>329716213
It's not that hard to tell if you lurk here enough.
>>329719302
How to show off you browse so little of /v/ that you never notice the differing opinions and criticism >>329719302
>>329719249
Anasheya
How to show that you browse so little of /v/ that you think it has differing opinions and actually talks about video games >>329719439
>>329716213
>hype thread
a game i like
>shill
a game i DONT like
simple as that
>>329717004
>implying /v/ would be a good target for shilling
Large userbase.
Anonymous.
It's a very good target. You can't directly tell that the thread was made by a shill. On conventional forums, post count and join date would expose you, unless you were to put a lot of effort into it, which isn't required on /v/ at all. Samefagging is also incredibly easy.
How to show off you're desperate and delusional >>329719627
How to pretend reality is different as much as a sony fan does >>329720030
If it's a game you don't like, you assume the people that say they like it are shills with opinions that couldn't possibly be true, so it's a shilling thread.
If it's a game you like, it's a hype thread because you agree with everybody's opinions.
How to detect children >>329720030 >>329720187
How to show off that you might have problems in reading comprehension, out of the fact you can't tell that people on /v/ constantly argue against each other over multiple points >>329720187
a shill thread is made by someone who profits off the game being sold.
>>329716213
hype threads usually happens naturally without someone making an "[Insert the name of the game] THE HYPE IS REAL" thread every day with exactly the same OP.
For exemple, when project beast came out here you could feel the hype everywhere,even on /v/ you could see that the ass devastation was caused because people knew it would be as good as it was looking.
On the other hand,you have this big dudebro blockbuster games that we know /v/ in general don't care about having the same fucking thread almost everyday with the same type of posting.It's purely shills trying to bruteforce the hype because it is not happening naturally.
>>329719996
>Large userbase
Comparatively? Not really. A shill would do much better at places Like Reddit where they wouldn't even care whether there was shilling or not, and the userbase is larger.
>>329720663
Without anonymity shills are forced to take care of their online persona otherwise they'd compromise their ability to shill. In /v/ you can just shill without ever getting caught, then you could just call critics "trolls" or "contrarians".
>>329720613
>it would be as good as it was looking
>averages at 5-10 fps, barely BARELY being playable
>>329716213
If you talk about a PS4 game, that's getting hyped for it.
If you talk about an Xbone game, that's shilling.
And /v/ doesn't take kindly to shills.
>>329720940
>averages at 5-10fps,barely BARELY being playable
See /v/ this is the ass devastation i was talking about.
>>329716481
congratulations, youre an idiot
>>329716286
you clearly werent here for this abomination, how new are you?
Depends on how jaded you are. The more jaded you are, the more likely you are to find hype for any particular game incomprehensible and conclude that it's just shilling.
Not all of /v/ is that jaded, but there's enough of them that you can generally expect any game to be accused of shilling if it gets somewhat popular.
I mean, when was the last time we had a popular game that got a lot of discussion without someone accusing it of shilling?
>>329721785
>posting the same OP is viral marketingIt could just be a shitposter you silly faggot.
>>329719859
This guy gets it.
>>329719138
Shilling has never been a huge problem in the first place. Sure, it happens, but not on the kind of scale some people here seem to believe. Meanwhile accusations of shilling is literally omnipresent.
>>329722485
>what's the difference between a shitpost, hype thread, and shill thread?
Still nothing
>>329722485
being this naive
>>329716213
hype
>posts relevant info about the game
>posts your hope and fears
>open to discussion
Shill
>posts a single screen shot
>not open to differing opinions
>game lauded as next best thing
>>329719138
falseflagging is one of the worst things on /v/ and I wish it was bannable
