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On December 04 2012 20:22 Game wrote:
While this is common, I can guarantee you that everyone who defends Blizzard repetitively in the TL SC2 forums are not contracted employees of the corporation. Some people are simply blindly optimistic.
they said that they check tl and other cumminty sites often aswell. so maby alot of them are yust simply blind, i think its yust foolish to discard the option that blizz is here aswell.
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I assure you, Blizzard products are so good! I think you should buy their next game, previews sound amazing, it's an expansion for Starcraft II, the best RTS ever where units goes HELL YEAH and then burn the face off the shit of someone else. In fact, if you preorder it, you get a pretty good deal, a beta key to access all the new features before everyone else!
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On December 05 2012 01:06 sabas123 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 04 2012 20:22 Game wrote:
While this is common, I can guarantee you that everyone who defends Blizzard repetitively in the TL SC2 forums are not contracted employees of the corporation. Some people are simply blindly optimistic. they said that they check tl and other cumminty sites often aswell. so maby alot of them are yust simply blind, i think its yust foolish to discard the option that blizz is here aswell.
Well, every big company is on this list whether it's Blizzard,Valve,Riot,EA,Bioware. Anything is possible so it's kinda pointless to discuss about it
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On December 04 2012 22:07 Azera wrote:
Wow this is pretty dumb. Blizzard is such an amazing company that has won many awards that proves it's prestige and honour. Blizzard will never do something like this. That scummy company Electronic Arts on the other hand, now they're something.
almost all the pre wc3 staff has been replaced right now. and those where the guys who realy made the price winnning games.
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On December 05 2012 01:08 Enearde wrote:
I assure you, Blizzard products are so good! I think you should buy their next game, previews sound amazing, it's an expansion for Starcraft II, the best RTS ever where units goes HELL YEAH and then burn the face off the shit of someone else. In fact, if you preorder it, you get a pretty good deal, a beta key to access all the new features before everyone else!
wow a beta key, i think alot of them have been given to the alot inactive people like me who haven't logged on for like 6 months and still got oneX_x
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On December 05 2012 01:13 sabas123 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 04 2012 22:07 Azera wrote:
Wow this is pretty dumb. Blizzard is such an amazing company that has won many awards that proves it's prestige and honour. Blizzard will never do something like this. That scummy company Electronic Arts on the other hand, now they're something. almost all the pre wc3 staff has been replaced right now. and those where the guys who realy made the price winnning games.
Well, if you bother to check then this is not really true. You know Rob Pardo, the man who was lead designer of BW,WC3,TFT,WoW,BC,WOTLK is working at Blizzard as vice president of game design and many other guys from their RTS team. The team that was mostly replaced is Diablo team.
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I am in Marketing as well, and I seriously doubt Blizzard would spend money to get positive posters on TL.net, for two simple reason: people visiting TL.net are already familiar with Blizzard products and are very unlikely to be influenced by random posters (given the emphasis on "Highlighted Users" and "Pro players" that is characteristic of TL, and the disdain/elitism toward the average joe's opinion). In general, people with a high level of knowledge about something (it doesn't have to be true, people just need to feel knowledgeable about something) are very adamant about their opinion and are hard to influence.
When companies do this, they aim at maximizing their social image impact: so they are typically targeting communities where a small number of users going in the same direction can influence people. For instance, before a release, Blizzard may hire a few people to post on IGN forums to say "Hey, are you familiar with the latest state of HotS? It's totally awesome, trust me, I played a lot, and it's really cool !". Since the audience here is not necessarily in touch with the games, the people are more likely to be influenced by this and buy the game.
My two cents.
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this kind of stuff has been going on since the middle ages.. shouldn't be a surprise to anyone
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On December 05 2012 02:06 Torte de Lini wrote:
Shit, the jig is up ):
They pay by account
Posting so much on one acct is uneconomical, so I doubt it
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On December 04 2012 20:43 Shady Sands wrote:Show nested quote +On December 04 2012 20:38 EtherealDeath wrote:
You can get paid fro this? Damn, should've put my forum hogging to use. 40 per month per forum account. So that guy in Seattle is making... 2k/month for spending all his time engaging in low-intensity flamewars and sockpuppetry
Sounds like he's living the life!
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On December 05 2012 02:07 Kasaraki wrote:Show nested quote +On December 04 2012 20:43 Shady Sands wrote:On December 04 2012 20:38 EtherealDeath wrote:
You can get paid fro this? Damn, should've put my forum hogging to use. 40 per month per forum account. So that guy in Seattle is making... 2k/month for spending all his time engaging in low-intensity flamewars and sockpuppetry Sounds like he's living the life!
but he gets to put down social media consultant on his resume, lol
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I hope he has a 2nd job if he's only making 2k/month lol
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I find it funny (but not surprising) that this actually happens, but also that it's a really convenient way to dismiss legitimate opinions from posters who don't think the sky is falling.
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On December 05 2012 01:01 Wildmoon wrote:Show nested quote +On December 05 2012 00:28 hoby2000 wrote:
I would not be surprised if Blizzard was paying people to come on TL.net to speak well about patches and their games. In fact, I would feel a lot better knowing that this was happening because then I wouldn't have to accept that people are really that stupid.
I walked into this thread thinking how I was going to hate the world after I was done reading, but now I have faith in humanity again.
You have faith in humanity when people call other people that have different opinion from them stupid or being hired to be stupid? You know the chance that there are people who are hired to trashtalk on Blizzard is around the same as opposite. So now you have to be aware about people who defend Blizzard and attack Blizzard. That's terrible if you ask me.
I agree with this post. Worrying about this kind of thing is both destructive for the kind of site TL is and too meta for my taste. Not to mention it's not that far off from labeling any opinions which don't match your own as trolling. Another way to try and discredit the poster rather than the content.
In any case, it clearly isn't effective in influencing the bandwagoning in SC2 general and r/starcraft. You are underestimating how set people can be in their opinions, and that goes for all sides in this matter.
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Great, another item to add to the list of Blizzard conspiracies.
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its taken more than 3 years but, i've finally been discovered.... sigh
i was hoping the "Canada" in my description would keep me from detection.
here is a full confession:
my last 5 projects were
1) running around on various online forums talking about how cool Starcraft is so BLizzard can boost sales of their #3 franchise.. i actually get $0.90 from every unit sold.
2) working with the US military to bring down the World Trade Centers with cruise missiles and bombs hidden in the building's structure
3) setting up the murder of Princess DIana with resources given to me by the British Royal family
4) working with Stanley Kubrick to create fake footage for the 6 fake Apollo Moon landings
5) working for the US military and setting up the assassination of John F. Kennedy..i'm actually the guy who shot Oswald, not Jack Ruby as the evil mainstream media would have you believe with their fake film prison video
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i hate to tell you the real truth here guys, but Starcraft2 is really just an elaborate hoax. The game does not even exist.
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I can see this becoming a witchhunt thing where people who HAET BLI$$ARD LOL accuse anyone with a non-negative view of Blizz of being paid shills while smugly linking to this blog.
Based off of a chatlog with an unknown person, posted by a relatively unknown person, talking about a non-specific company that could be one of like 20-50.
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