Microsoft Buying Positive Inlfluence on Youtube

[Tmh85]

This is NOT MY VIDEO but I feel it may need to get out there, I feel like I may not be able to go to YouTube anymore for reviews (Except for Linus and Logan) However I am not going to give them a free pass I'm sure it happens to them too come on we are all people and we need to make a living somehow Go boogie!

 

[AlwaysFSX]

Doesn't surprise me that this happens from Microsoft, because other companies do it too.

[Osmium]

I feel like this is not really new news (for me at least) but it is very cool of Boogie to make this video. I don't actually follow his videos but I do appreciate the videos like this that he does.

[Guest]

This is NOT MY VIDEO but I feel it may need to get out there, I feel like I may not be able to go to YouTube anymore for reviews (Except for Linus and Logan) However I am not going to give them a free pass I'm sure it happens to them too come on we are all people and we need to make a living somehow Go boogie!

 

every company does this......

[UnderADyingSun]

This comes as no surprise, but I really respect Boogie for being this forthright.

 

I've always though machinima were a bunch of MS d riders, but I'll inevitably circle back for inside gaming, bro team, and gamerpoop. There's just too much entertainment value!

[mr moose]

Yep, I didn't know about those contracts and payments specifically but it doesn't surprise me and is how I have felt about youtube and all these types of media anyway,  I mean we all know it happens in mainstream media, so why wouldn't it happen in emerging markets?

 

Good on him for venting, But I am more concerned about the viewers who think everything youtubers say is sacristan.

[Kamina]

Business as usual.

[Fetzie]

This is news? Just how many people live under rocks?

[deathjester]

This is why I try to expose the frauds on forums. Unfortunately? You fight personal attacks, then when you fight back you get mass reported. It is an uphill battle.

 

MS is no dirtier then AMD and Intel though. Logan from Tek Syndicate might be the biggest farce I have ever seen. 

 

Intel used ES chips for Haswell reviews to make it look like they all went to 4.7ghz OC'ing. 

 

AMD did the same with R9 cards and reviews. 

 

My personal favorite was a win 7 vs win 8 review where they used an old copy of excel on win 7 and a newer version on Win 8 and said Win 8 is faster on excel. I laughed pretty hard when someone linked me that "benchmark". I pointed out the error and got called a neophyte who was holding back technology...

 

Shareholders and fake identities selling products, and highly binned engineering samples for reviews. Got to love it. IGN and game reviews is even more hilarious. Go look at the initial review of Star Wars the Old Republic for a good laugh. I was a beta tester the game had a memory leak up until the "expansion" (long after it went free to play).  How you could test the game for long hours and never once run into the memory leak or question the game engine/performance is mindblowing. Oh yeah BF4 got high reviews from all these "game sites" as well lol.