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[Talamius]

Shills-a-plenty are showing up here too, but the mods seem to be on top of it.

 

[AlphaDump]

Yeah whatever happened to thread bishoptl talked about the other day with the curious email registrations?

I am curious too. He was definitely hinting at a glaring trend, and even gave a link to a PR firm as a small example.


edit: nvm

 

[madmackem]

I think people are naive if they think most companies dont do this, i dont trust any big corp at all, they all will be using every trick in the book for every product.

 

[Vamphuntr]

That's not really surprising. There was a report here in Canada that showed that political parties make dummy accounts on news websites to pimp their opinions in the comment sections.

So I'm not surprised corporations are doing the same.

 

[Ding-Ding]

Not surprising in the least. In a previous job, I had to work with MS but it wasn't gaming related. Some of the shit I witnessed truly defies belief (before anyone asks, I cant talk about it)

 

[a Master Ninja]

Whatever happened to making a product that customers want? They should try that.

 

[Servbot24]

That particular user doesn't seem like an employee, way too abrasive and unprofessional. Just a fanboy on damage control.

 

[chickdigger802]

Got a few friends that work at redmond that spew all kind of PR talk about xbone, win phone 8, win8, surface (lol) on facebook.

It's more sad than annoying.

 

[eXistor]

Good, this needs to bite MS in the ass. Hard. It's the only way they'll learn.

 

[Linkified]

Pathetic.

Nah every company does it Disney is the worst actually when they bring in the paid's into MiceAge, etc.

 

[jtb]

Infiltrating and trying to influence social media by pushing a corporate message is deceptive and screams of desperation. You should care.

Microsoft has been terrible at marketing (and desparate) for a long long time. so what. is it breaking the TOS? are they lying about the product?

do you really not get why people would care about this?

yes. MS has a marketing department. I can't really muster up the enthusiasm to manufacture outrage for this, sorry.

 

[sleuthy]

Sounds a lot like /v/ complaining about viraling going on there aswell.

 

[sn00zer]

DO you not think every major company is doing this?

 

[Swifty]

From SunhiLegend:

 

[codhand]

wow guy put in serious work too, im going through it all, truly pathetic

 

[UnblessedSoul]

Not shocked, a lot of them have been banned on GAF

 

[Amagon]

the mods decided against it, but will be banning people accordingly.

Boo!!!

 

[SteveWinwood]

Someone link me to some of these bish posts where he talks about some of the email lists and bannings.

 

[cpp_is_king]

yes. MS has a marketing department. I can't really muster up the enthusiasm to manufacture outrage for this, sorry.

How did you feel when the BioWare employeed posted the 10/10 review of Dragon Age 2?

 

[HamPster PamPster]

This is why you don't get junior members to astroturf, you need to pay off established posters. Like for example posters who have been here a few years yet fly under the radar. Posters with sweet dragon avatars and email addresses not tied to your company. Not that I know anyone like that *wink*

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Companies have been doing this for years.

 

[DaBoss]

the mods decided against it, but will be banning people accordingly.

Aww man, was really looking forward to that.

 

[Foffy]

I never figured out this mentality. Wouldn't honest, critical discussions bring out the truth about any subject or matter? Or at the very least, get the closest to truth.

I ask this because wouldn't funneling money and craft a message to soften the blow already show the truth of the matter being largely negative, with the twisting just being to defend the greedy practices in the first place? I think sane people can see through the farce. It makes me realize we as people do a lot of stupid fucking things to create a "point" that's bogus and full of shittiness.

 

[Zabant]

Caught this on twitter earlier also, standard practice these days. Incredibly hilarious when they're found and have a spotlight shone on them.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Microsoft might be pushing it more but people are acting like this is uncommon. Having worked in fields that required this (to an extent) its incredibly common practice. The internet is the most powerful marketing tool available and RM and other similar practices are huge. Thankfully a more closed forum like GAF can avoid it but Reddit is massive and growing daily and its so easy for anyone to post.

 

[Jarek23]

What's the point? They're not going to change people's opinios just by trying to limit the amount of negative press.

No, but the limited amount of negative press will decrease chances of people from seeing said negative press.

 

[SgtCobra]

Do you think they aren't?

Wasn't EviLore talking about revealing something before the E3 regarding some users here on NeoGAF? I'm not 100% sure though.

 

[Sloane_Ranger]

Oh my goodness gracious! [Fake surprise from Battle Block Theatre]

 

[GraveRobberX]

Jesus Bish's list will go from Notepad size to fucking scrolls that roll down for ages

 

[Mr. Luchador]

They must be here also.

Only one way to find out...

 

[scytherage]

I recall similar rumors with Sony all the way back in '06.

If anything, they'll need hundreds of thousands of shills to drown us all out. And they have to send bigger checks to the press because apparently they're not on their side too.

 

[bryehn]

Infiltrating and trying to influence social media by pushing a corporate message is deceptive and screams of desperation. You should care.

Have you never seen Twitter? Every major company does stuff like this.

 

[Zukuu]

In this day and age, it shouldn't surprise anyone that companies doing PR work not only the normal way. Social media and viral marketing are long engulfed in PR wars. I'm sure that even on NeoGAF are a tons of these people.

 

[Into]

Whatever happened to making a product that customers want? They should try that.

Good point, but before they made a product that consumers wanted, now they are making a product that Microsoft themselves want. None of the Xbone policies benefit the consumer, but they sure as hell benefit Microsoft

So they needed soldiers out there, in hopes of trying to trick the average person that this wasent that bad at all.

 

[Divvy]

I am curious too. He was definitely hinting at a glaring trend, and even gave a link to a PR firm as a small example.


edit: nvm

Link to that post/thread?

 

[GrizzNKev]

The people who rabidly defend Halo 4 as the greatest game of all time and also claim to have inside information from MS and can't wait for the Xbone are on my watch list. On this forum.

 

[Marleyman]

They are on every message board, forum, etc out there.

 

[UrbanRats]

Up/downvotes must really work wonder, in this sense.

 

[Dirt]

Do they get 50 cents per post?

 

[snap0212]

They're doing that here too

Really? Wouldn't the time to be approved kind of kill that?

 

[Guevara]

At some point maybe they'll close the loop and just pay people directly to buy the console.

 

[Omikaru]

Corporate shills nothing new, wait until they get on GAF.

You may have noticed a lot of greyed out names in MS threads recently. Yeah. Bish has been busy.

 

[codhand]

I don't care.

MS is a company with a lot of money and a lot of money to spend on advertisements. if they're not violating the reddit TOS... who cares?

you my friend, are a contrarian

 

[GuardianE]

the mods decided against it, but will be banning people accordingly.

Damnit. I wanted to get a casualty count.

 

[Betty]

From SunhiLegend:

Spectacular, laughed the whole way through.

 

[Traumnovelle]

THEY WALK HERE AMONGST US

 

[UnluckyKate]

Seriously look at /r/gaming it's 25 first post about Xbox One hate...

 

[BatDan]

The shills are all over GAF. They might even be YOU!

"But I must fight the corporate shills!"
"No Billy, you are the shills!"
"Then Billy was a prostitute."

 

[adamsappel]

I'm sure some of the anti-Xbox One posts come from Sony shills, too (as he says in his post). Still, the cost for posting those probably plummeted.

 

[Zombie James]

Have you never seen Twitter? Every major company does stuff like this.

Twitter is different because people have to follow you first. You have to build an audience to get your message across. Creating accounts on reddit and spamming corporate bullshit isn't the same thing.