Mike's reasoning makes perfect sense now but to consumers like us it's a horrible idea.
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Gggmanlives (sponsored influencer) has negative Anthem Review taken down (now edited + reuploaded). Original did not have correct watermark.
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No-one in this type of partnership can be trusted in what they're saying is the problem, both parties are interested in selling you things and making as much money as possible from that. Realistically it would seem unlikely that the guy would ever know he was being blacklisted (certainly this soon), most companies would just stop giving you work over time, they're not going to tell you that's what is happening because it creates bad PR situations like this.
Oh I'm sure there are assholes abound in this pseudo shadow marketing world.
Is it the way he says "Shit"? Because despite me liking him, that annoys the actual living shit out of me.
What is he saving face about here with his audience exactly? Oh man my video got removed. What likely happened was a miscommunication from the Australian team vs what the British CM said.
Took all of 10 mins for someone I know to get removed from the EA GC program. He said something in a public forum he shouldnt have with EA CMs and devs around and was pretty much immediately removed.
That he lied that he was blacklisted and that EA told him to take the video down because of the negative review?
This analysis is so dumb.
That's not how you become an influencer.
You become an influencer by putting in the work to build an audience so large that companies like EA want to bribe you.
If you don't have that audience you can't influence people.
If you have that large of an audience you are making money. Though the degree of earnings will vary between these social media magnets.
No, Gggmanlives shit does not leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Dude's name was familiar, but as I read the thread I remember why. It's the "anti-SJW" stuff I've earlier probably heard about. And EA shouldn't entertain anyone doing that shit, don't partner up with these kind of people please. EA has been doing good on representation and diversity front and pushing back against the backlash, but partnering up with these guys undermines that. Should be blacklisted for that shit alone. I'm all for people discussing about historical accuracy and authenticity in games or any media. But when you start complaining about "SJW:s", you're not arguing in favor of historical accuracy but against diversity.
Thanks man! I guess it would've been too hard to say this without insulting me, but thanks for sharing your insights.
Wouldn't be the first time someone was blacklisted from EA game changers after giving their honest opinion about something. I believe it happened to both levelcap and skillup as well. If anything, I see this whole, "being blacklisted by EA game changer", as a stamp of approval, that their opinion hasn't been bought out. Now, it's possible to not be black listed, simply due to the fact that their honest opinion about something isn't negative, so I'm not going to start painting everyone in that program as sell outs.
Every post in this thread till the threadmark? Even after it there are people defending him
I've read the threadmark. I'm not sure what that has to do with him being a GamerGator? I don't particularly like this false framing of the thread that you've done here either. People are discussing the issues with paying people to be part of the GameChanger group. And I know for many content creators it's a hard one.
You don't see how it's worse on the company? The ethics go both ways, but they're in the clearly advantageous position and are being more shifty and manipulative in their tactics. The reviewer bears responsibility, absolutely, but EA know exactly what they're doing and what it entails. They're not the only ones in the industry doing it, but they're still doing it.
Yep. It's a good way to "control" reviews. To "influence" influencers.
Yeah, that's complete hyperbole. Firstly my posts and many others were both critical of EA and this guy, who I've never personally heard of until today, and I don't have any feelings about Anthem either way. Sponsored reviews are unethical and that falls on both of them regardless of why the video was pulled, which still isn't clear.
Currently checking his BFV video this.
edit: He doesn't say anything like this in his vid. He covers complaints of "historical accuracy" for a short moment, saying it doesn't bother him.
e: post 392 is enough for me though.
I've never seen this.
e: and it appears he was never blacklisted... so I dunno what he was thinking or doing. It'd be really dumb if he didn't properly read an email or something.
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Wait what?! Too much focus? I found the focus to be not enough. I wanted a full on campaign with the Hellfighters not just a prologue tutorial.
Let's not forget the SJW complaints. The guy is not unproblematic.
Still think the whole Gamechangers thing is sketchy.
Can you help me out?
e: Post 386 helped me out. I think there may some confusion. Where is his GG stuff?
e2: Post 392 does it. Using "PC agenda" is enough for me to avoid his vids.
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I mean, I don't like the guy, but he may not have lied. He may have thought he was blacklisted and was mistaken. That's not lying.
Random YouTubers clearly have more integrity than professional journalists after all. :P
Not to mention, when did being considered a GG'er have such a low bar to entry? As far as I know, he has never even brought up GG let alone endorsed it.
Go watch his BFV review, there is nothing controversial in there, he literally said the women in multiplayer doesn't bother him. The only time I've heard him use SJW was in the MGS5 review and it was a 1 line punchline to a joke. If you want to hear more about his thoughts on devs striving for more diversity in games watch his CoDWW2 review, hint, it ain't controversial.
Here let me link them for you;
https://youtu.be/Nhls5BAqLSs (Full BFV review)
https://youtu.be/RY9XC7zRxYg?t=400 (Timestamped to part about historical accuracy)
https://youtu.be/IcYi_67xfho?t=335 (Timestamped to joke)
If you have proof that he's an alt-right shitlord or gamergate supporter than feel free to supply receipts otherwise stop making shit up.
/rant
Now we can get back on topic.
Holy damage control, Bruce, is this you, you the ggg guy? Your location checks out.
Dun dun dun..
The plot thickens.
This whole paid ads on youtube thing will blow up sometime anyway, but at least they are forced to disclose so you can steer away for now.
I have no idea if it's EA or this guy who is lying now regarding the take down but it seems that EA at least tries to follow the rules regarding paid ads.
The plot thickens.
This whole paid ads on youtube thing will blow up sometime anyway, but at least they are forced to disclose so you can steer away for now.
I have no idea if it's EA or this guy who is lying now regarding the take down but it seems that EA at least tries to follow the rules regarding paid ads.
That's a low effort and frankly insulting post that doesn't deserve a thought out reply.
No no, no intention to insult, your boy has done more than enough of that already it seems.
No one managed to save the original video?
Or it could go even further, but that's when his politics stuck out to me.
He's been anti-SJW since Firewatch review ("I'm glad that Firewatch doesn't have any sort of PC agenda...it's really refreshing to play a game with no political message or agenda").
Or it could go even further, but that's when his politics stuck out to me.
His constant "Keep politics out of games" whining made me stop watching him. I still use him during steamsale when I need a better deeper opinion on a game but even that is getting rare now.
Nothing you said in your post disputes what he said in his post.
