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EA Too!: Be extra nice and EA will pay you (participants may not disclose details)
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The EA campaign doesn't have any sort of distinguishing tags, though. It only requires name of the game and a game mode with proper spelling and capitalization, which plenty of people would do anyway.
Mille is Latin for 1000.
lol probably
Or at least:
"I can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. Looks the same"
"I can't tell the difference between 30fps and 60fps. Looks the same"
This is probably in preparation for Titanfall. MS and EA are banking on this
It will most likely work too, regardless of the final product's quality.
Apparently it's the same language as MS. Which makes me think that we may be missing something/misinterpreting something.
jhmtehgamr20xx
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This, essentially. I'm surprised how many people are taking the complaints in that "other" thread the wrong way.
BruiserBear
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This is probably in preparation for Titanfall. MS and EA are banking on this
So this is going to become the new Titanfall line for any positive opinions or reviews for the game in the run up to launch.
It shall replace the "manufactured hype" line we've been hearing for months now.
People aren't realizing that EA and Microsoft have the power to CRUSH those that don't sign these NDAs.
This isn't a question of disclosure at this point. This is the death of independent opinions and Let's Plays on YouTube.
You either conform and sign on with our Marketing Partners or we shut your shit down.
"Well the contract doesn't say such and such." This appears to be the strategy to handle and "control" content on YouTube. Continue to allow a controlled network of streamers, and wipe out others that try to do things the right way.
This isn't a question of disclosure at this point. This is the death of independent opinions and Let's Plays on YouTube.
You either conform and sign on with our Marketing Partners or we shut your shit down.
"Well the contract doesn't say such and such." This appears to be the strategy to handle and "control" content on YouTube. Continue to allow a controlled network of streamers, and wipe out others that try to do things the right way.
This is probably in preparation for Titanfall. MS and EA are banking on this
This sort of marketing strategy has been going on for years and years, at EA, MS, Sony, Activision.. etc.
If anything it's good that the "average joe" might start to take notice but this isn't anything new by any means.
Ronku specifically has been around for 5 years or so.
Roman Numeral.
They game looks amazing but If that does happen EA and MS only have themselves to blame.
SEGAvangelist
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Roman numerals.
PepsimanVsJoe
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I'd gladly sell out to companies that made games I actually enjoy playing.
Sorry EA/MS. *shrug*
Sorry EA/MS. *shrug*
KillerIsJed
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"This just in, publishers use marketing money to market to people"
I don't get why there is so much upset about this. This is a common thing in the YouTube world. People who have a large subscriber base get offers like this, even some smaller channels.
I've personally been approached by a production company for Sony just in the past month.
Also, no one is going to pay for negative marketing. As a publisher you can't say "Don't say bad things, we are paying you" but you can say "we won't pay you if you say bad things." So that is up to the YouTuber to decide, and *gasp* some of them may actually like and believe what they are talking about / showing.
Do you really think all those unboxing videos and early sneak peak of games from big name YouTubers aren't marketing by the publishers / creators?
As someone with a few friends in the industry, I hear this kind of stuff all the time. And there are plenty of CPM boosting things you can do if you choose to sell your soul / promote to your subscribers for some extra cash.
I don't get why there is so much upset about this. This is a common thing in the YouTube world. People who have a large subscriber base get offers like this, even some smaller channels.
I've personally been approached by a production company for Sony just in the past month.
Also, no one is going to pay for negative marketing. As a publisher you can't say "Don't say bad things, we are paying you" but you can say "we won't pay you if you say bad things." So that is up to the YouTuber to decide, and *gasp* some of them may actually like and believe what they are talking about / showing.
Do you really think all those unboxing videos and early sneak peak of games from big name YouTubers aren't marketing by the publishers / creators?
As someone with a few friends in the industry, I hear this kind of stuff all the time. And there are plenty of CPM boosting things you can do if you choose to sell your soul / promote to your subscribers for some extra cash.
It was corrupt 5 years ago too, seriously guys these sorts of promotions are nothing new. Including the "NDA" language.
Metalmurphy
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So that (OPs picture) is something from EAs website, it did look similar.
So why does it have the same Legal Agreement, word for word, as the MS Machinima one with the exception of the word "EA" added to it?
ElectricBlanketFire
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Then Nintendo must have spent their entire astroturfing budget on Mario 3D World and A Link Between Worlds.
Standard forms are standard.
Why don't you just say "I've completely missed the point".
Less words and we can get on with the discussion.
Yeah, it's shaping up to being EA/insert big publisher takes your ad lunch money, and to get something you have to sell your soul and get loads of grey money with it. It's the 90's all over again.
Yeah because a big corporation would definitely never do anything illegal. Especially fine and upstanding ones such as EA or Microsoft.
Pretty bog standard legalese for NDA documents. Wouldn't say all but tons of promotional campaigns have clauses prohibiting participants from describing the details of the promotional campaign.
Also people have said why they're upset over this many times in the 3,000 post thread, it isn't a mystery.
I'm sure it does. They are doing the same thing they did to the Games media to YouTube.
They are integrating them into the PR system. They are making them dependent and controlling specific networks or an example today would be magazines like GameInformer, and shutting everyone else out.
They are smothering the profitability and economic validity of independent channels that do not accept bribes. These schemes should be faced with scorn and derision. It's absolutely ridiculous what has been happening now and what is planned for the future.
This is their ad-buy, except there is no wall between the streamer and the person buying the ad, there isn't even a culture or title with a history of careful consideration of ethics. These are straight-up power plays and bribes.
The secret sauce means the 720p upscaled looks way better than 1080p.
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Queen of Hunting
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id thought they would have this sort of deal for twitch streaming considering thats really gonna explode this gen, youtube will be old time for reviews you can just load up any stream for that game on twitch and get an incline to what the game is and if its good
Let's all just consume all the YouTube personalities' opinions as per normal as though this didn't happen and go back to happyland -- because it's completely normal for opinions to be bought/influenced by money but not disclosed to the public. Completely normal! Other companies do it, so it's fine! No big deal!
...I just can't believe there are people who actually think that in this thread and the mega-one on MS. I have literally seen everything in the last year, everything, in the form of damage control.
...I just can't believe there are people who actually think that in this thread and the mega-one on MS. I have literally seen everything in the last year, everything, in the form of damage control.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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The seedy videogame let's play arenas being exposed and I love it.
Twitch is no different to youtube except it makes it even harder to tell if someone is being paid for their opinion.
If you're interested in Warner games, I'm relatively certain PewDiePie didn't play Dying Light for the VGAs for free.
They're the only other ones I can think of off the top of my head that have notable streamer videos on somewhat unusual titles, but someone who follows streaming more might be able to think of others.
Metalmurphy
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It was edited in later.
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