>/v/ says a game is bad
>realize /v/ is around 50,000 people
>they just spout the same memes
>this whole time you thought it was like literally 100 people MAX
Well, sheeet.
/v/ has no individual mindset. It's just people posting the same thing in order to make the threads get post counts.
Post counts in 4chan = likes in FB or upvotes in reddit/imgur
That's why they make such a big deal about the size of a thread.
I thought maybe a thousand regular posters, don't know about lurkers though.
>>339369630
i saw some info recently, it's at LEAST 10k atm
there would be some router resets in there of course
Isn't it more like 100k people?
>>339369630
only 1 thousand?
how??
There are 13 million monthly users
>>339369535
This. The only way to get people to even respond to you anymore is either:
1: bait
2: post popular opinion
3: post late at night when fewer people are browsing
If you try to post anything even remotely interesting it gets sent straight to page ten.
Easiest way to think about it is to go to /b/,
You have literally half a million users spouting the same memeshit.
Tell me you think that's a thousand people. Of course it isn't.
>>339369849
I don't pay attention to the front page stats, it's just what I assumed.
>>339369930
Yep.
I hate all of you so much.
>>339371541
But anon, i love you.
>>339371753
Faggot
>>339371753
Bad decision.
>>339371806
;__;
>>339369393
>listening to the opinions of /v/irgins
>>339369393
So you're for or against Dark Souls 2?
>>339369802
Link?
>yfw you realize your favorite game is being shat on because of shills who want to make their own game look better
>>339369849
That's all of 4chan. I don't know about individual board numbers thoughi assume /v/ is still the highest
>>339369849
Lurkers or posters?
>>339372271
>he doesn't know valid issues with his favorite game so he can spot people who are genuinely concerned
>he can't easily argue or dismiss any other criticism from shills or retards that can't play
Step up senpai
>>339372389
First /b/, then /v/ and then /pol/
>>339372271
>implying /v/ has any value in advertising
>>339372196
was just some website stats, can't link soz not nerdy enough but they are there and seem realistic to me at least
>>339372389
Pretty sure in terms of traffic it's /b/ then /v/ then /pol/
>>339372508
>then /pol/
I didn't know that. Christ.
>>339372489
Polacks working at CDPR and Blizzard beg to differ.
>>339372598
Yes /a/ has fallen to like the fifth most active after /vg/ I think
Kind of odd how the board that this site was made for isn't the most popular or top 3
>>339372485
>>339372508
>mfw i forgot /b/ even existed
i was happy for a little while
>>339372741
/b/ is tecnically only porn at this point so it doesn't really matter anymore
>>339372717
It go split up repeatedly though, like /v/. It sprawls across like 7 boards now
>>339372489
Any public space does, /v/ has a serious issue of anonymity: it's hard to track and analyze the effect of the shilling. That's why shills probably make threads and try to make them stay afloat, but don't participate much in other activities. Even shitty jobs still cost money, and people generally are not that keen on keep spending money on something they can't track, they can't analyze and they can't even get results from.
t. Social Media Marketing faggot
>>339369802
>10k atm
I guess that explains why small indie shills are a thing
>>339372868
It's hard to deny there aren't shills on /v/ after the Overwatch/Witcher droning. Could be regular employees not even in marketing who just want their games to be more popular. How many indie devs haven't done that on 4chan?
>>339373040
>How many indie devs haven't done that on 4chan?
There were some faggots shilling some sort of "post-modernist RPG" game here. Besides that i don't remember anything
>>339369849
The vast majority of 4chan visits are from lurkers.
>>339372857
post yfw gamergate killed moot
>>339373040
if there aren't shills then i would be shocked
(there are)
to not just spend a minute to post something here and have a hundred+ people view it for free, come on. Especially indie shit.
>>339373130
Indie devs can create a more personalized message to hide their shilling. With posts and threads that are not as blatant as "Hey CHECK THIS GAME OUT WOOOOOOOOW [Official youtube trailer]" every hour you just don't know, you can't know. I assume most of the posters here that create new-game specific threads are genuine, even if they ask whether /v/ knows about the game or not.
>>339373330
Faggot
>>339369393
Didn't moot say that /v/ got like 6 million unique IPs every month?
>>339372857
/a/ is 5 boards
/v/ is 4 boards
Obviously the biggest interest here is video games followed by anime
It's hilarious that /tv/ is still only one board and /mu/ too while /sp/ and /tg/ had to be split
The "problem" with /v/ is that it's literally too fast at times but while splitting it into /wv/ and /jv/ would fix this, it would just create a ton of shitposting as well
>>339373330
The fappening was worse
>>339373330
It was the fappening.
Gamergate was a completely irrelevant thing that would blow over in two weeks tops if that retard moot didn't fuel their persecution complex by banning it from 4chan.
>>339372489
>he missed the Borderlands shilling campaign
>he missed the Lords of the Fallen shilling campaign
>>339373330
having to deal with the potential suits about the fappening when 4chan wasn't the origin but just a dumping ground killed him, gg was a footnote in comparison
>>339372857
>4chan will never go back to being what moot originally envisioned
>it's now hijacked by normalfags and shills who unironically use phrases like "weebshit" and "waifufag"
someone post those board traffic pie charts, I can't fucking find them anywhere
>>339373556
I remember all the threads leading up to the launch of Dragon Age Inquisition.
It was always the same image.
I just figured it was some anon being ironic.
>>339373556
Tell me this isn't shilling.
>>339373556
>implying that's shilling and not pure provocation by using a controversial game/subject to make people post, like the regular denuvo threads on peak american hours
>>339369393
I would say it is a matter of timezones
EU /v/ is not the same as USA /v/
>>339369930
This so much
>make a Doom discussion thread
>pruned or deleted after 5 replies
>make an Aplogize Dark Soul 2 thread
>"478 replies and 122 images omitted. Click here to view."
>>339373518
>blow over in two weeks tops
That shit was slowly building up ever since the five guys thing. If it wasn't for moot, /v/ would have been the official home for gg and that shit didn't start to wane until a few months ago, lord knows how popular it would still be if it was still here
>>339373670
There's no controversy about that game.
Every single thread talked about where to buy it, how good it was even though it was just Chinese Bootleg Dark Souls, and constant repost of the same pics over and over.
They even spammed copypastas to defend it.
See
>>339373667
>>339373667
>What's not to like?
Every single post that uses this sentence unironically is shilling.
>>339373556
Why the fuck are Polacks so obsessed with shilling on /v/? Witcher drones are the same.
>>339373769
that's not shilling, that's bait to get dumb people to post asspained reactions to the fucktarded original post, you even included an example in your picture
>>339373676
EU /v/ is awful, and I saw that living in Europe. I tend to save a few threads before going to bed and then just read them when I wake up to see what the Americans have posted.
>>339369393
/v/ is basically 1% thread posters 9% whitenoise meme posters 90% lurkers
>>339373867
Witcher drones are just angry because discussion about the game died about 1 month after the game came out due to the game having zero replayability.
>>339369393
>trading thread
>I post an offer
>someone tries to add me
>he is already on my list
every single time
there are literally 10 trading fags on the whole board
what's interesting is there is one beggar using the same mail
For months
>>339373983
>what's interesting is there is one beggar using the same mail
Oh yeah, several people pointed out at him being in every single CD Key gift thread.
>>339373556
Pretty sure LoTF shilling was just someone baiting souls fanboys.
>>339373867
It's not shilling, it's a few dedicated individual people riling up fanbases to get good reactions out of them
Did you miss the part where the game sold like ass, vanished off everyone's radar and there's 0 news or teasing for the sequel two years later ?
>>339373958
>90% lurkers
all me
>>339373556
I hope that Denuvo was worth it
>>339373958
Pretty much. If you move away from archetypical meme-posts, you can find fairly regular posters - even among those that aren't trip fags.
On a few occasions people have even called me out for something I had said in a previous/different thread, despite the fact that I neither avatarfag nor tripfag. It's even worse on /vg/.
>>339373958
>9% whitenoise meme posters
That would be extremely painful for you
>>339374217
Sold like 350k, and up to this day still has performance issues.
In fact when it came out, it only worked properly on very specific hardware configurations.
Meta threads belong on /qa/, that being said...
Its pretty easy to control the opinions on /v/ by making daily threads
I always thought it would be interesting to make a video showing the catalog everyday at the same hour for a year, just to demonstrate how many daily threads get made.
I randomly bump threads about things i'm really interested in, like waifu threads, hoping that discussion will pop in.
If you see a random thread getting a bump when it's at page 8-10 in here, /tv/ or /co/, it'll probably be me.
>>339374334
The worst things about /v/ are daily/hourly bait threads that retards keep responding seriously to them, and people defending shitposting and pretending to be retarded as the pinnacle of humor
>>339372857
This is your legacy, moot.
>>339372489
if it gets popular on 4chan, reddit will eat it up even if its shit.
>>339374503
Holy shit this
Every general is like a cancerous sticky that rcho chambers the same retarded opinions over and over again.
But then again /v/ is mostly underage children with too much time so they have all the time un the world to shitpost and make the world a worse place jusy by existing.
>>339374382
>watch the replies from catalog
>it goes up by 1
>your post was basically a guaranteed 'You'
>he's replying to someone else
>it took him an hour to do that
>he doesn't know
>ip trace him
>find out where he works
>call in a bomb threat in his name
>end it all
>>339375352
>ip trace him
You can't.
Hope you keep your eyes for random bumps in dead threads.
It's probably me.
>Complain fags in denial
everyone enjoys a good shitposting Sony bread
>>339375421
>you can't
jej
remember that black cat that got saved? you think mods did that?
>>339373676
>because of timezones some posters never or rarely come into contact with each other
This always bugged me, I'm on 4chan during euro times(1 PM to 3 AM GMT+2 usually). I wonder how is this place like when I'm sleeping.
>>339373941
Mind elaborating? Sometimes I tend to stay up until 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, which are basically peak times on the eastern coast, and I never noticed much of a difference.
>>339375701
NEET Time America is basically the best time to browse /v/. All the kids are asleep. All the shills who has to go to work in the morning are asleep. What remains are the geniune posters left. The EU NEET time doesn't occur since it crashes with the American morning time.
>>339372834
This, it's not even a fun sort of shitposting anymore, it's literally nothing but porn, gore, and the occasional camwhore, but all but one of these things already have their own boards elsewhere.
>>339372717
Nothing odd about it
If you arent into waifufaggotry then anime and /a/ has nothing to offer.
We may whine about gaming going to shit but anime just went to shit, fully past tense.
>>339375956
this
>>339376256
Yup, now that I think about it, being mainly on /a/ and witnessing the Lucky Star days feels exactly like today being on /v/ and watching people love the shit out of Overwatch.
So I guess thats where we are now, past the point of no return though the process is slower.
Also /v/ never had Code Geass or anything.
>>339376514
Oh no people like thing
>>339376514
>responding to a b8 pic
I bet you didn't even notice that the "moeshit" anime is all from from the 90's while the upper row is all relatively recent anime.
>>339375791
>NEET time america
And what time would that be?
>>339369393
only 50,000 heads are true to this.
>>339377059
shitpsot aside, just fucking go to /a/ and choke on that waifu dick
You can meme all you want but obviously when 80% threads are waifushit then I am right.
And what is OW if not waifu-game.
>>339377965
I don't really care for /a/ or keep abreast of the latest anime shows, given that I got into the medium relatively recently, and I usually watch older stuff that you would probably term as being "moeshit" but wasn't that one punch guy thing quite a hit over there?
And anyway, it seems to me you have more of an issue with a particular online community than with the medium as a whole.
>>339375791
americans shitpost way more than anyone else, i'm so glad this board is chinese now so you can't just be default "durr it's night time go to bed"
no, burgerfat, it's 4pm.
I come here because it's so many people and you don't need an account. Never bothered with Reddit because it needs account (I think?) and other chans are too slow.
>>339372271
whatever makes you insecure fucks feel better
jesus christ, how do you people go outside?
>>339377054
Oh no, people praise and spam threads about a game to no end even though it isn't that good. Just because people like something doesn't mean it is good because of shit taste.
>>339378610
Whats shit is shit, as a self-professed newbie what am I to do with your opinion bar use it to wipe my ass.
I would actually think the number of active users on /v/ is somewhere around 5,000 maximum.
Pageviews =/= posters
>>339369393
Only 100 out of the 50 000 post regularly.
I swear I can recognise some of you motherfuckers from your writing.
>>339375549
Go ahead, find my IP.
>>339378954
>people shouldn't talk about things I don't like
>>339380159
People should fuck off to /vg/ instead of spamming one thread after another of the same shit.
That's the reason why Overwatch gets so much shitposting, the same for Undertale.
>>339379118
Alright, Mr. anime pro.
>>339380307
if I actually wanted to talk about video games /vg/ is the last place I'd go
>>339379742
I don't know what you mean :V
>>339372271
It's called being competitive. I guess you just don't want your game to be *that* good
>>339380910
It's actually ten times better than /v/ discussion, because you actually realize people have deep understanding of the games in question because they actually play them for a considerable amount of time.
This only applies to some general threads, though, usually multiplayer games or highly moddable singleplayer games so I guess if you want to discuss memeshit like undertale or some weeb VN you're shit out of luck, I guess.
>>339379742
What's really funny is I actually recognize you from before, but that's only because you're probably the only guy that holds such a retarded notion on here.
>>339375546
No we don't
How about if we talk shit about your favorite game?
>>339378928
Not even him but
>The Order is about to release
>People start figuring out it's 4 hours long
>"W-well MGR was shit"
>"That's funny because it was a massive success and most of the day 1 threads were praising it"
>History revisionists start saying how everyone hated it because it wasn't a carbon copy of Ninja Gaiden or DMC.
All to shill for a game that's already been forgotten while MGR still gets decent discussion.
>>339381329
The quality of /vg/ threads vary wildly.
Some are better than /v/. Some are pure unadulterated cancer.
>>339369393
>Yfw all the people that hate on Overwatch are really a small group of 10 people that try to degrade it with memes
>>339381672
don't forget the intra-thread drama ugh
>>339375791
I have seen the shitposters go crazy at night and there was no janitor to keep things from getting out of hand.
>>339381672
>>339381774
>Game you like
>General gets a resident autist.
>Gets so butt blasted and posts so often you can easily identify him with the insults he uses and even the posting style.
>He will never fuck off no matter how many times he's banned.
>Thoerycrafting shitter who is shit at the game.
>>339377524
11PM to 3 am.
>>339382725
>doesn't say what timezone
faggot
>>339374043
Pretty much
copypasta=/=shilling
>>339373598
>waifufag
hey, ~fag has always been our word
