Who do you think was behind all the "Kotick isn't the anti-Christ" threads.

>>138128609

/v/:
>anyone who enjoys different games than you is a /v/iral marketer

>But black ops 2 looks way better than modern warfare 3!

Just like how modern warfare 3 was going to be way better than black ops... I really hope none of you fall into this trap

let me guess, you have no friends and you're favorite genre is jrpg's

>paying $60 for map packs

You can say vira­l, you know.

>>138128740

Or an autist

>>138128839

It's too bad people will.

>>138129028

lol

>>138128475
May 2012
The month /v/ officially became the worst board on 4chan
/vg/ took all the video games with them and now all that's left are viral marketers AND MY GOD
I JUST REALIZED THAT THEY TALK ABOUT VIDYA MORE THAN WE DO

>>138128839
>Just like how modern warfare 3 was going to be way better than black ops

Who thought this? MW3 didn't change or add anything from MW2. BO was a huge difference from WaW.

It's probably all those reddit faggots you shitheads attracted by going to their site and bashing them directly.

You have no one to blame but yourself for fucking this.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHILL THE FUCK OUT, AND THEN GO FOR THE BUTT!

>>138128951
Never played a single JRPG,l not sure why I should.
Also, I have friends.

Wow.

>They actually think there are marketers on /v/

Do you really have such an ego that you think ANY major publisher gives a shit about, or even knows of, 4chan?

>>138129589
>I am an idiot

Come on, this is just fucking trolling. It's the same thing as saying something like "Halo invented FPS". Guaranteed replies and shit.

Making meta-threads like this only feeds into this but who can blame the 12 year olds that arrived here a month or 2 ago and finally found a place where they think they belong.

>>138129589
Due to the fact that 4chan gets millions of people on it. Yes. I think they do care.

>>138129704

>millions

Silly OP,
Blood Omen 2 was released years ago...

>one of the most successful video game franchises in history gets another sequel
>act like the only people interested in it are people who get paid to be

>>138129631
Prove there's any form of publisher marketing on /v/.
Just one piece of evidence.

Psst
it's not actual marketers.
Actual marketers wouldn't be so fucking obvious.
You fags are so gullible its sad

Someone post the screencap with the Tripfag admitting that he used to market for Capcom on /v/.

>>138130265
>one of the shittiest game franchises in history gets a sequel
>another thread is posted every 3 seconds where some faggot says it doesn't look terrible and they are going to buy it

black ops 1 is the only buyers remorse I've ever experienced in my entire life, I can literally justify buying broken car parts, but I can't justify this fucking piece of shit

and it's all because of the hype I read on /v/, so I know for a fucking fact theres either kids trolling to get people to buy BO2 or theres legit marketing bullshit going on

>>138130393
TWEWY was viraIed. I think it was the guy who made the God Hand Edit for it.

>>138130595
You mean the blatant fucking liar who had no evidence.

God, you "/v/iral marketing" fags are as pathetic as people who believe in summerfags.

>>138130265
>one of the most successful video game franchises in history gets another sequel
>successful

It is successful because it panders very well to a target audience. Anyone with half a brain knows that target audience is not welcome in 4chan.

In fact, their entrance here is illegal

>>138128839
They never learn. The cycle must continue.

>>138130626
>one of the shittiest game franchises in history
Opinion. Millions of people would disagree, but the quality of CoD is irrelevant. Fact is, many people buy the games, many people play them and are therefore interested in potential sequels. Pretending everything outside of your own little world doesn't exist makes you dumb as fuck.

/vg/ is for the cancer
please go black slops duce

>>138129107
They also have multiple threads devoted to Kpop, Neopets, and fanficti-I mean KS.

>>138129589
>Who is Anonymous X in DX:HR
>What is all of Battlefield 3

>>138130901
Like I said in a different post, how good the CoD games are is irrelevant to the topic. They sell like hot cakes and continue to do so. Acting like nobody is interested in them because you don't like the games would mean deluding yourself.

>>138130949
Those millions of people are also not the kind of person who'd typically browse 4chan.

>>138131162
>acknowledgement equals marketing campaign

>>138130393
Borderlands
Battlefield 3
Ace of Spades
Minecraft

Just to name a few.

>>138130803
But there was evidence.

>>138131408
>>138131453
>claim there's evidence
>post none
Why do I even bother with you?

>>138129174
If take he Cod Mw1 -> Mw2 Differences= Qite big
If you take Waw -> Qite big
But Mw 2 -> Mw 3 Differences= New box art
So Bo1 to Bo2 is going to be almost the same

>>138131382
>can't read the post I was responding to
>>138129589
>Do you really have such an ego that you think ANY major publisher gives a shit about, or even knows of, 4chan?
>ANY major publisher
>knows of 4chan
>knows of
I provided clear evidence that not only do they know of it, but employees of some publishers apparently actively browse enough to catch that dinosaur thread.

>>138131235
Quite the contrary, I'd say CoD kids are just the people who'd browse 4chan.

>>138131684
Still: Acknowledging this board's existance or even browsing it extensively is no real evidence for the launching of a marketing campaign.

I look forward to getting this on launch day and playing with my bros that night.

Maybe even get drunk and take turns at one of our houses, lan party like.

Since when?

>Hey guys, This new game looks like it might be fu-
>/V/IRAL MARKETER! SHUT THE FUCK UP!

even neogaf get viral marketers and they dont even get a 10th of the traffic 4chan gets

>/v/iral marketers
>Not people who just think the game looks good and are hoping to share their joy with others

>>138131914
AGES AGO

>>138131869
Did I ever say anything about a marketing campaign? I was just dispelling some faggot of the illusion that 4chan is their secret little clubhouse entirely cut off from the world over. Shit that goes on here gets noticed and I would not be surprised one bit to learn that shit gets marketed here.

>>138132035
I hope this was meant to sound sarcastic.

>>138131994

call of duty just needs to get out. It's a dead franchise and everyone knows it. Even the fans are realizing it now

>>138131994
>why havent you preordered this gaem yet /v/?

>>138132160
There's a difference between a /v/iral marketer and somebody who's optimistic

I AM HERE TO TELL YOU HOW GOOD THIS GAME IS

IN ALL CAPS

HOLY SHIT I'M A HAT THAT CAN READ

>>138132035
>/v/
>joy
We have long ago abandoned such trivialities as joy.

ITT: 12 year olds defend BO2

>>138132176
>Dead franchise
>CoD 4 which came out an eternity ago still has more players than "good" games like Red Orchestra 2
Keep telling yourrself that

Anonymous confirmed for villain
Why haven't you preordered this yet?
I can honestly say...
Who else is getting this?
Refreshed x times

>THEY'RE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT VIDEO GAMES, THEY MUST BE MARKETERS, BACTERIA EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!

>Hitman Convition marketing
>JUST BECAUSE THERE WERE 4 GUYS TALKING ABOUT HITMAN

Blops 2 marketing doesnt surprise me

>>138132403
>>138131994
These kinds of posts are far worse than the people they're complaining about.

>>138132403
Oh I forgot about that one
Anyone have more?

>>138132396
>>138132204
Mods confirmed that these threads were all made by one very determined troll.

Now expect some demented nonsense about a Jewish conspiracy or some shit.

>>138132452
>Post official trailer from a dev account on Youtube
>With just 50 views
It was obvious marketing

>>138132716
How could a mod confirm that?

>>138132716
>Jewish conspiracy
>Saying it like it doesn't exist
Brainwashed amerifat detected

>>138132796
>implying the counter doesn't occasionally freeze
Really, happens all the time.

>>138132834
Gee, I don't know.

>>138133069
That doesn't confirm anything

>>138129913
>Less than 100,000 active users

Dang, I thought there would have been more

>>138133069
>mods in charge of being retards
lol, "ponies are no problem, they always make threads for themselves" they said a year ago, now we have a board

>>138132834
They can't.

I talked to a mod, ("Alternative" to be precise) in a thread once, and when asked about trolls he said, 'There's really no way we can prove if someone's trolling, an idiot, or just have a contentious opinion, so we really don't do it all that often.'

Anyone who tells you that, "a mod confirmed that they were a troll" is trying to do damage control.

>>138133069
That isn't "confirmation."

That is the opinion of a mod.
Appeal to authority does not make your argument more sound. It makes it weaker.

>>138132452
What? Nobody on /v/ likes the shitpile that will be Absolution, man. No, I don't even want to call it Hitman, because it will never be classified as a Hitman game unless they abort the fucking Kayne & Lynch-type-of gameplay.

>>138133141
It does confirm more than your tripfag does.

>>138133343
Hold those fallacies in please.

>>138133226
>Appeal to authority does not make your argument more sound. It makes it weaker.
The same goes for bland sweeping statements.

>Guy posts a thread on /v/ about a game you're not interested in

Sane person's response:
>That game doesn't interest me. I guess I'll just keep scrolling to the next thread.

Retard's response:
>ZOMG VERUL MURKATING! SAGE REPORTED HIDDEN GTFO YOUR VIDEOGAME THREADS ARE THE CANCER KILLING /v/-VIDEO GAMES.

>>138133486
Yeah, you're obviously too busy carrying enough of them already.

>>138133228
Not saying a Hitman fan will like it, just saying it surprises me how just 4 or 5 guys were making Hitman threads, posting their frustration and suddenly, someone makes a thread yesterday >>138132796 like this anon said, a dev video with just 80 views and posted just minutes before.
And then some other anon (maybe the same OP) starts defending Absolution and saying all the other Hitman were action-packed with no stealth anyways.

>>138133175
most of those users are spending less than 1/25th of their day here. that's well over a million users.

>>138133504
Let's make the statement as specific as I can then:

The opinion of an individual in authority, in this case, a mod, does not become more correct for just being in authority.

>>138133597
I forgot that one too I gotta write all these down

>>138133762
>opinion
Okay, man. Just ignore that mods have access to IPs to confirm identity and all that shit. It's cool.

>>138133980
How does knowing an IP prove that the person isn't hired to post here?

>people actually think there's no /v/iral on /v/

Are you kidding me? Are these fags so new they weren't here during Borderlands?

Go back to Reddit, I'm sure they love to eat up that shit there.

>>138134082
>implying a huge company would only hire ONE person to do the job

>>138133980
And but he didn't mention anything about ips matching.

Nor would matching ips mean anything. It would mean that yes, it's the same person each time. That wouldn't really mean anything other than he is the same troll each time, or the same hired marketer each time.

>>138134214
In this case this one individual used a unique tripcode so he could link to threads and posts he made.

Tubedubber thread?

http://tubedubber.com/#x3tedlWs1XY:ON-7v4qnHP8:0:100:0:0:1

>>138130393

People like broken Shit?

>>138134435
http://tubedubber.com/#x3tedlWs1XY:1EKTw50Uf8M:0:100:0:0:1

It's clearly marketing when you see shit like

"I PROMISED I WOULDN'T BUY IT, BUT IT LOOKS TOO GOOD"

>>138134214
/v/ is a tiny board compared to /r/gaming and /v/ isn't even the primary market.

EVERYONE ON /v/ ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT BLACK OPS 2

advertising to people who already know about the game does very little to increase sales. oh, and the word "v.iral" refers to the way information spreads which in this case would be like a virus.

one person making a thread abou thow good a game is is not v.iral marketing.

>>138130393

wait, heres some more

>>138134454
This is no proof for anything. Anyone could have made these posts and deleted them for whatever reasons.

Seriously, nobody on this fucking board does know what solid evidence even looks like. Shit like this would be laughed off in court.

>Look at filename
>ctrl + F : Persona
0 results
Goddammit /v/

>>138134741
>/v/ is a tiny board compared to /r/gaming and /v/ isn't even the primary market.

Thank god

It must be terrible knowing that I sell you things here, and there will never be any proof I was even here selling you it

>>138134454
>>138134454
mods should be given the power to change the deletion password for posts.

>developers/publishers bring out a sequel in less than a year than the first one.

EXPECT IT TO BE BAD and/or THE SAME FUCKING REHASH.

CoD DIED THE MOMENT MW 2 WAS RELEASED.

THUMBS UP IF YOU AGREE

>>138134741
>/v/ is a tiny board compared to /r/gaming
And because Africa is a smaller continent than Asia doesn't mean that it stops being fucking huge.

/v/ is the second fastest moving board on 4chan, only surpassed by /b/.

>>138134214
you realise of course that theres companies with lots of people who get paid very little with old computers and internet access just waiting to be hired, right?
Outsourcing isn't something new, and there's plenty of poorer countries with computers these days. Copy pasting isnt exactly rocket science either.

Ice cream? I love ice cream!

>>138134435
http://tubedubber.com/#kSMoxfkv_qM:x3tedlWs1XY:0:100:0:0:1

>>138134825
This is an anonymous board. How exactly do you expect people to get evidence without pulling IPs?

If it's not the publishers, it's trolls, which is still v iral marketing you retard, just not necessarily astroturfing.

>>138135513
>f it's not the publishers, it's trolls, which is still v iral marketing you retard
>calling other people names despite not even knowing the definition of the word he keeps throwing around
Cute.

>>138135705
The whole concept of going bacterial is having other people spread the information for you.

Trolls spamming marketing lines is still vi ral marketing.

>>138135705
you're confusing it with astroturfing.

>>138134772
You realize that a lot of Borderlands 2 was trolling because of the shitstorm that was BL1, right?

>>138135496

>>138136264
Refer to >>138135863

>>138128609
I don't see the issue with Kotick, really. There are far worse guys out there.

I'd take him over Gabe. Gabe has screwed me before, Kotick hasn't.

http://tubedubber.com/#x3tedlWs1XY:cmaNUI5pyhM:0:100:0:37:1

I bought into the hype and got a copy of MW2 at launch on the triple.

Shit sucked, will not be suckered again.s

>>138135863
By that logic talking about any release at any given time makes it /v/iral marketing.

>>138131060
/vg/ has no offtopic threads.

/v/ is 80% offtopic at all times.

>>138129704
4chan get's thousands. Reddit and 9gag and tumblr get millions. Would make more sense to market on those sites.

Hey /v/, have you guys played the Dragon's Dogma™ demo yet?

>>138131162
Anonymous X was based off of popular culture /b/ legion guys. Not the average /v/irgin or even /b/tard.

I give you BF3, however.

>>138136547
>/vg/ has no offtopic threads, majority of them being circlejerks and tripfag hangouts
Fix'd

>>138131408
Minecraft wasn't viraled. Notch started here, he used a trip, he did not hide that he was advertising Minecraft back in the early days.

You may be thinking of Terraria.

>>138135863
So you really have no clue what you're talking about.

The point of bacterial marketing is to create "cool" content to show around, which doesn't give itself away as advertizement at first. The videos for Prometheus featuring the cyborg would be the most recent example for this. Another one would be the "real" Sarif Industries site made for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Simply repeating obvious PR statements like "This game is good!" or asking "Why haven't you pre-ordered GAME yet?" is not v_iral marketing.

>>138136679
Difference being that on 4chan these people can be completely anonymous spamming 50 posts in a single thread without anyone being able to tell. It's a very small amount of effort to "market" on /v/ compared to 9gag, Reddit, etc., even if there are a lot less people here willing to buy it.

>>138136959
So...exactly like /v/, but with vidya? Oh no!

See: Gamboys (furry tripfag circlejerk) 4am (tripfag circlejerk) jupiter threads (tripfag circlejerk).

The reason /v/ hates /vg/ is because, if you go to /vg/, you are expected to only go to the threads for games you enjoy instead of shitting up and posting doubles in threads for games you hate. The idea of letting people enjoy things without shitting on it and trying to stop them makes the average teenager very angry. Hence why /v/ get's mad about /vg/.

But make no mistake. By /vg/, the mods, and the rest of 4chan, you are acknowledged as a containment zone. A place to keep all the /b/ garbage and raid legion shit so it doesn't spread. When people make vidya topics on other boards we direct them to /vg/, not /v/.