What's the most blatantly astroturfed hype you've seen for a game?

What's the most blatantly astroturfed hype you've seen for a game?

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Elden Ring
Cyberflop
Persona 5

Halo infinite

Saints Row

Valheim and Saints Row. Stray was just zoomers sucking it off because their favorite streamer was being paid to play it.

Bioshock Infinite stands out because it was the beginning of all-present aggressive shilling as we know it today.

okami has some astological themes
animal crossing and katamari have constellations

the new saints row

I don't know if the marketers think they are being subtle, but this is the most obvious viral marketing campaign I have seen on here for a long time

EA games and XIV because that's the only ones solid proof of paid shilling afaik (people posting proof they get paid to promote it). People tend to go AAAAH IT'S SHILLING as soon as a popular game pops up because they're retarded.

Here on the board?

>stray
>death stranding
>elden ring
>shin megami tensei V
>multiversus

Devil May Cry 5.
The Sad thing is that it worked.

Horizon 1 and 2

Any oldfags here remember when there was a greentext that was basically the marketing copy/press release for a game got stickied on Any Forums for some reason?
Not a summary greentext, the exact ad just with meme arrows and reddit spacing.
I think it was shilling Assassin's Creed or something, must've been 5-10 years ago.

Hello Neighbor
Multiversus
Onirism

Yes, asscreed sticky shilling some event nobody was actually interested in. The way meme arrows were laid out, it was obvious it's text copied from an email. Also it was a locked thread so everyone could see it without any of those nasty "nobody cares, shill" comments.
Someone in marketing evidently paid Any Forums staff for a sticky without knowing the first thing about how Any Forums works.

Stray
Saint's Row
Va-11 Hall-A

borderlands 1

Trannytale

For me Goblinism gets a pass because is the fucking programmer shilling his game with no more than ten concurrent players. He could be any of us, chasing the dream.

>NOOOOOOOOOOOO WHY ARE PEOPLE EXCITED FOR PRODUCT. YOU CANT DO THAT YOU HAVE TO BE BITTER AND SAD LIKE ME!

nuGod of War
Horizon Forbidden West

Cyberpunk was pretty funny
Rage bait over stuff like Horizon is always pretty obvious, but most faggots here still fall for it
Xenoblade 3 is using similar tactics rn with the offspring picture
Stray 100%, they had premade memes on release day and everything (and the game was just okay at best)
Project Zomboid has waves of shills
In general, you can tell by how fast the posts stop about two weeks after release

It could be you, it could be me, it could even be...

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Persona 5. Those 'never seen it coming' video was like going decades back to the THIS IS SPARTA 'viral' videos. Nowadays absolutely everything in the internet is an ad anyway, or an information recollection stitch like this thread

Mobile games.

Intellivision Amico

This. Contrarianism has gone too far

>Project Zomboid has waves of shills
h-hey, I like Zomboid...

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genshin impact

I'm glad to hear I didn't imagine it, it's been so long and I've never seen anyone mention it since that I began to think I was delusional for remembering it.
Do you have a screenshot by any chance?

/thread

>Cyberpunk was pretty funny
I don't remember the damage control of the critical days. I only remember people fighting over the size of the map. I remember that image that said "I'm still buying cyberpunk 2077".

Dead Island.

Nah I'm pretty legit pumped.

this board went mental for that absolute shite 3ds "game" tamodochi life or whatever the fuck it was called. half the board was filled with that shit for the launch weekend and then it was never spoken of again. that's when iknew this board is just nintendo shills spamming their garbage

What the fuck is astroturf?

Every single Far Cry release and to a lesser extent Ass Creed.
Pretty much every Ubisoft game.

It's not a bad game at all, but my autism allows me to distinguish shill posts from regular ones - good games can still have blatant astroturf/shill campaigns run for them (Valheim for example)
The shazam meme was likely organic, the "I'm still buying cyberpunk 2077" was completely manufactured and dumb as hell, basically saying "I'm still gonna be a good goy and consoom"

Marketing by pretending to be a member of the community who's just accidentally interested in the product you're selling.

Bro I argued with some dude here for HOURS in a thread until I posted my copy of the game with a timestamp and he never responded
The new GoW stuff sucked dick and I regret buying it

So just shilling?

>Horizon Forbidden West
I still don't know who actually likes this shit. It has a pretty coat of paint and fucking nothing else. Is that all it takes to impress?

Pretty much any Ubisoft game

"Shilling" is a slur loaded with anti-semitic energy. We don't use those on Any Forums.

>the "I'm still buying cyberpunk 2077" was completely manufactured
That was ironic shitposting in the vein of "still voting trump".

Astroturf is a brand of synthetic turf/grass
It's usage in this case means an artificial grassroots movement/enthusiasm for a product or event

*4channel

I hide every fallout threads here

I haven't played forbidden west, but I did like zero dawn.
I'm not saying I love games like Horizon, but I do enjoy them when I'm in the mood for a typical AAA open world game.

Astroturf can be applied to non financial as well as financial purposes while shilling is all about money.

Stray

>ctrl f genshin
>1 result
You disappoint me Any Forums

not a game, but i hate all the chink shit shill threads. sometimes they even start the thread asking if an xbox controller is the best for PC before shilling 8bitdo chink shit.

Do you really think people on Any Forums don't like to make threads about anime girl porn and those threads are all outside companies marketers?