Sure... by Steam. How long before someone pays TB or someone like him money to recommend stuff on their curator page? I mean sure... if Steam is willing to police stuff like that, then sure, but it just seems like another way to influence certain buying groups.
Video Game News and Miscellany
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Companies already pay TB to play certain games, but he's always been extremely transparent about what plays are 'sponsored events.'
Basically, anyone that would have enough influence that companies would want to pay to influence them -already- have that influence and could -already- be paid. I doubt steam themselves will police that stuff, since they want to be as uninvolved in steam as possible and have it be a self-run service, but anyone caught accepting compensation for recommendations would risk invalidating their existing business model.
Does that mean it won't happen? Hell no, it'll happen, I just want popcorn for the blowback when it does.
I think I just died inside.
Ha! Apparently I was right: TotalBiscuit just had Planetside 2 as his number one pick, with a video review that starts " This is a paid-for promotion". Now he's changed the video and moved the placing of Planetside.
There is literally no depths that games media will sink to.
There is literally no depths that games media will sink to.
So did he fuck Zoe Quinn or what?
This is such a non-thing though...
It is and it isn't. If he had kept the "This is a paid-for advertisment" thing up, he'd have been good to go. That's disclosure and that's TOTALLY FINE. But then he switched the video and tried to hide what he was doing.
I honestly feel like I can't give anyone in the media the benefit of the doubt anymore. Everyone's getting paid off somehow.
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Reminds me of a Game Grumps Let's Play they did for Dead Space 3 which was clearly, blatantly paid content. Not only was it a modern game in a show that mostly played older games (the occasional sonic sequel aside), but every few minutes they would radio-dramatize a bird flying in with a note on its leg, which turned out to be the next batch of copy points provided that they had to read if they wanted to get paid. I don't think there was actually any disclosure, but they couldn't have been more obvious about it having been paid content short of coming out and literally saying "they paid us to do this."
And now I have a video I must watch.
Blizzard cancels the super secret MMO they kept claiming to be working on, codenamed Titan.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...-titan-its-eternally-mysterious-next-gen-mmo/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...-titan-its-eternally-mysterious-next-gen-mmo/
And it sounds fantastic. That's the second big MMO cancellation this year.
Sounds fantastic? It sounds like they had less of a solid plan for it than Peter Quill did.
Honestly, "It wasn't fun and we weren't excited about it" is probably one of the best reasons to cancel a game.
Maybe if the isp's manage to put in that "internet fast lane"
God, internet, why don't you just make bigger tubes!
Guess I will need a new PC soon.
With so much freedom for editing climate and terrain, the creator isn't restricted to exactly real to life scenery, but could work in some weird, crazy stuff.
If it was on-disk, it's entirely likely it would have been found sooner. Dumping a game disc isn't exactly hard.
More than likely they slipped it into an update.
