Do paid shills actually exist?
>>337792030
>what is Overwatch
Yes. It's literally impossible that there are people who enjoy games that I don't like so they have to be shills!
I get paid to shill Windows 10 on /g/.
20 Overwatch thread per minute
With the state of /v/ right now I say definately. If companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on advertising why wouldnt some of that money be spent paying shills to.... shill on the most popular 4chan board which also happens to be their target audience!?
No they do it for free
Yes, it's typically a 3rd party company hired by a publisher or even their own development team.
There's been examples over time, such as developers rating their own game on metacritic, employees being told to rate their own game, marketing companies who description includes generating hype and interest on internet forums and claim to be used by publishers such as EA.
It's all a part of marketing to gain interest in their titles in an attempt to sell more copies.
Yes, I usually do it for free though
>>337792117
An FPS developed by Blizzard.
Viral marketing on /v/ is a thing, but not everything is. Some will even do it just to piss other people off.
>>337792030
Yes. Look at the people spamming that Yiik game.
>>337792117
Hi Battleborn dev
I would love to get paid to shill how do i start
Yes, but only for the games I don't like.
>>337792496
>getting paid to shitpost
My dream job.
>>337792339
>Their target audience
You can't be serious.
>>337792030
yes. want a proof?
just look at all those people enjoying games that you don't like
Right now companies don't even have to do anything. People either shill on their own for free, or it's 'ironic' shilling by autists.
Either way you need to pre-order Overwatch that releases on May 24, 2016
>>337792619
>Manly Tears in picture
Manlet Tears please fuck off
>>337793157
And now you can add post-ironic to that list.
>>337792030
Yes.
For those of you who dont know Zenimax owns Bethesda, ID software and a couple others.
>>337792030
Probably. But no individual instance can be proven.
>>337792849
Didn't he come back later admitting he trolled you all good?
Bet you didn't save that screencap.
>>337793509
How do I know that's real?
>>337793738
I'm not the same guy, but ok
>>337793509
What was the offending post?
>>337793829
Because the original of this pic was blocked for damage control by Zenimax and 4chan's moderation in conjunction with Hiroyuki because "he dont wan no twoubbo".
>>337793926
It was a Doom 4 leak if I'm remembering correct, which is made by ID software, who is owned by Zenimax.
>>337793984
>Because the original of this pic was blocked for damage control by Zenimax and 4chan's moderation in conjunction with Hiroyuki because "he dont wan no twoubbo".
And how do I know that's true?
>>337794028
I could upload the original elsewhere, post a link, and let you test it yourself, but you have no reason to trust anything I upload as viruses can be packed in pictures. So I'm wasting my breath as you'll deny it even despite the proof I posted being right in front of your face in the size edited pic I posted.
>>337793829
It was during the Doom alpha, they were scouring /v/ for any images or video that highlighted its flaws and DMCA'd them all
They even DMCA'd reups edited to evade the filter, this went on for about a month
It was only negative protrayals that got banned, normal images did not get dmca'd
>>337793829
>>337794028
Fuck off retard and check the archives. I just did and it's there.
Kill yourself, kid. keh.
>>337792847
>Yes. Look at the people spamming that Yiik game.
Literally never seen this.
>>337793135
>tfw I remember being hyped for Evolve
It must have been how people who were hyped for Brink felt.
>>337794152
Ah, good point. Should've thought of that myself.
The archive, that is. Not killing myself.Already think of that enough.
>>337792030
yes op
>>337792194
Of course you do, now put the phone and listen to the teacher.
Of course. Right now Overwatch, Uncharted 4 and DaS3 are being shilled like mad.
I know a guy who's paid by a political party in this country to shill in comment sections and on forums.
It would make sense if private companies did something similar.
Technically, sure
Of course only a tiny fraction of all shill calls are actually shills
Even 'obvious' shills are more often than not just falseflagging shitposters because you're the most gullible retards on this planet
>>337796221
>believes stuff he reads on a 4chan
>calls others gullible retards.
Holy shit my sides
Also nobody would shill on /v/ ever unless it's a tiny indie game, something connected with porn or a hate campaign.
The average /v/ poster doesn't have much cash, isn't very easily influenced and has a likely negative influence as a promoter for others.
>>337796378
>>believes stuff he reads on a 4chan
You might want to go into some detail, anon
>>337796419
>isn't very easily influenced
FULL FUCKING KEK. A couple of guys spam a copy pasta about why you should hate something and most of /v/ will spread it around like it's absolute truth. You fuckers have been brainwashed so hard that even pictures of Tomoko can get you banned because of one shitposter, Halo and CoD threads are rampant now because some fuckers forced it and everyone else caved in like little bitches.
>>337796432
nope I dont need to, you are that deluded anything I post you would just pass off whilst you sit there in that tinfoil hat
>>337792030
are you retarded ? ofc they exist
>>337796634
I literally don't understand what you're on about
Ask the people making the constant Overwatch threads
>>337792496
I thought conversion from 4chan isn't big enough for them to even bother. From leaks like that it's always seemed like only reddit, tumblr, facebook comment sections of big news sites are mentioned, but almost never 4chan. Would be interesting to hire company like this to promote some forced meme opinion on /v/, though
>>337792030
if they did they would be on facebook not fucking 4chan of all places
Anyone posting about a game I don't like is a shill.
>>337796419
you're literally retarded
do you have any idea of the traffic /v/ gets ? 90% is lurking, and they all are potential customers
>>337792030
DA3. Overwatch, Doom, Uncharted 4, Stellaris.
This month /v/ is being invaded by a ton of shills if you cant tell.
Marketing departments exist.
Problem is no one has tools to detect marketers, they just use logic "do I like thing-> no, since I suffer from autism I cant understand people have different opinions than me, thus everyone that likes thing is a shill"
Calling people shills is only done by retards that like to derail threads.
Yes.Just look at the forums of capcom of the days b4 DmC was released. total fucking SHILLS
>>337797068
don't forget the abundance of "earthbound inspired" games
>>337797164
It's too bad, DmC was a fantastic game hurt by shitposters.
I wish Ninja theory was around to make DmC 2
>>337797256
>DmC was a fantastic game hurt by shitposters
>>337792030
Yes, but anti shills are usually worse, they will derail thread discussion if it's genuine or not. Even when a game is a year old.
>>337792117
You mean Borderlands, newfriend
>>337797068
Yeah I agre all those fucking people talking about videogames instead of the usual topics like how the sjw menace is killing gaming and how Egofaggots day went, must be fucking shills trying to get us to buy stuff
>>337792030
A "paid shill" is called a marketer.
The definition of a shill is someone who does it for free.
>>337797256
PLease DmC was SHIT. The Dialogue is sometimes written by a 12 yr old. As if Dropping F-bombs will make you cool...
>>337792030
>paid shills
>>337797691
>>337797540
Are you guys just kidding or something
People love to post "shill" because retards don't like people liking games they don't like. Also it lets them post the funny ".05$ has been deposited into your account" meme that gives them Internet brownie points nobody will remember less than sixty seconds from now.
Like holy shit, almost ten million people played the Overwatch beta, it's the first high-profile Blizzard game to come out in a while besides Diablo III, it has waifus, what the FUCK did people expect?
>>337794436
Everybody was hyped for Brink. It was bigger in hope than in reality
>>337792724
Why do they always do this shit?
And I mean this shit, with the spaces.
Cause holy fuck it's annoying.
>>337792030
No, now delete this
Why would a hacker wear a hoodie up indoors on a computer?
Was there some guy on /sug/ that got a decent amount of money, and they paid them to shitpost on /sug/
>>337800438
I don't know, why would someone shoot a man before throwing him off a plane?
I really need to know if the new Doom game is any good. The videos i saw of it look like complete shit and everything ive seen of the game points to it being shit but there are A LOT of threads saying how good it is.
Am I being shilled or is it actually a good game despite every video of it being shit?
Yes but like 80% of people accused of being shills on here are incredibly obvious trolls
Yes, but we are very subtle about it. [/spoiler] usually [/spoiler]
Paid Shill is redundant, Shill already implies payment, it even comes from the british "Shillings".
The real question would be if actual unpaid shills, ie people hired to hype something up without recieving payment, actually exist.
>>337792030
Do you really think /v/-video games is popular enough for somebody to bother paying another person to shill here? Get real dude, the only people who browse here are people who simply love video games and are excited for promising new releases like Overwatch.
If anything it might be one intern is told to make posts all off the internet. I doubt anh company has specifically targeted 4chan for a marketing campaign.
Possible with small indie games. I find it unlikely that they do when it comes to Triple A games.
But even if they do exist, they're far less cancerous than the faggots that scream "shill" and derail threads with that shit.
>>337800138
It's designed to annoy you and be obvious precisely so someone accuses them of being shills
Easiest b8
Shills more then likely make threads here all the time, but it is mostly one or two people.
People that think every single good post about something in in a thread are pretty dumb.
Its gotten to the point where shill pretty much means "Someone likes something that I don't. I can't understand how someone can like something I don't so, they must be shilling it"
Like words like cuck, its been said said so much its lost its true meaning.
>>337801958
>That entire post
Kys faggot
>>337792030
It's e-celebs
>>337800138
Reddit syntax. For some retarded reason on reddit to get a newline you need to make a new paragraph. If you just do a normal newline it's ignored.
It's also a pretty good way of identifying people who post on 4chan and are pretending to hate reddit.
