Sony could argue that MS are being disingenuous in their arguments for the deal.Random user on Era:
What do these people think this is?
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if anything MS being disingenuous with their Zenimax acquisition raised red flags with this one. Reading that post made me lose brain cells and I just closed that thread.Random user on Era:
What do these people think this is?
The Resetera forum are just the same Xbox fanboys who used to moderate NeoGAF before the exodus and were banning anything positive about Sony and allowing rampant predictions that Sony would be dead in a few years before the Xbox One was revealed
I remember folks used to hate Neogaf because it was too Sony centric back in the day and a couple of the mods were really pro Sony. I felt like the pro Xbox mods didn't come along until Resetera. I could be wrong though.
Yes i remember those days on GAF the Xbox fanboys was complaining during the Xbone ERA that the OT was the only “safe space” for them to talk anything about Xbox gaming because they was tired of negative news cycle Xbox was always having. Lol
One thing i notice on the forum when anyone is debating one of these fans, they never have a original rebuttal. It’s always something that has been regurgitated 1000 times and never an original thought or the answer is always a deflection that would fall under the category of “Sony Too”
Do they have a Discord or something that give damage control bulletpoints to regurgitate on forums, Reddit and twitter?
They didn't like the swing back against Microsoft after a gen of banning Sony posters and flat out trolling. It was like NeoGAF now if you mention Jim Ryan but for every aspect of Sony
I've heard rumors of the infamous discord as well, including the gaming media folks who are in that discord. Could just be tinfoil hat stuff though
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We always thought that they did have a large Discord or designated meeting place and that talking points and lines of attack were dictated and then the influencers and more trusted Xbox users would go out to make videos and comment on Twitter etc and spread the message through the wider community.
I mean, it wasn't just us thinking this obviously.
I just wonder how far up the talking points come from....
I mean, on twitter for instance several IGN people said almost the same thing at the same time trying to shill gamepass. It was way more than a coincidence.
Then someone checked their Xbox profiles and one of them hadn't been online in a week, contradicting what they tweeted...... so you know it's not from an honest place.
Make sense and I remember when that guy was caught lying, all of the so called influencers started setting their profiles to private.
I remember the coordinated tweets talking about the great value in game pass too.
No wonder Microsoft started reducing Xbox’s marketing budget.. because they have a whole gang of delusional fanboys that will damage control, make infographic and spread the gospel of Gamepass online for free.
Any positive talk about Sony is too much for xbots. They are completely allergic to it and they accuse you of being biased. Even after the gaf mods banned every PS fan there they still feel persecuted and call it SonyGAF. There is no winning with them.
ERA, which was always pro-Xbox to me, was still too much "Sony" for them so they created XboxEra. You see how delusional these people are? They are now on Metacritic too so that's even more disgusting.
We all noticed that. They parrot each other, the exact same opinions. The same script. It's like they're all robots under the same AI. They must have a discord or something where they organize how to blame Sony for everything.
the ambassador program does have a discord doesn't it? but that one's probably too public for organizing astroturfing to go on.
From what people said on xbox era yes they do
Yes, there was, maybe still is. The group, pre-next gen release, coordinated Hit pieces and bias talking against Sony. There was a whistleblower who shared sceenshots. That groups was just to cause havoc on PS and glorify xbox.
Buggaga was one of them.
@adamsapple @peter42O do you know of this Discord?
@riky @catlady @bernad, get your alts in here and start answering.
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Xbox fans on other sites hate that this place exists, because it pro-sony and won't let the xbox shills take over with their marketing points.
It's true about gaf as well, they are pro xbox but hide it behind 'fariness'. Yet when asked, the majority of xbox gaf posters will say that gaf is pro-sony. Anyone with a brain can see that it isn't.
Right now there are more shill pieces about how bad VR is, how poorly it sells and how it will never become mainstream, than ever before. But hey, total coincidence that Sony just released a VR headset, right?
It's true about gaf as well, they are pro xbox but hide it behind 'fariness'. Yet when asked, the majority of xbox gaf posters will say that gaf is pro-sony. Anyone with a brain can see that it isn't.
Right now there are more shill pieces about how bad VR is, how poorly it sells and how it will never become mainstream, than ever before. But hey, total coincidence that Sony just released a VR headset, right?
The dude wouldn't say this if he were confident about the deal.
Agree...if he was confident in the deal this wouldn't even be a headline or a talking point
This sounds like preemptive expectation management to me.
I see you guys beat me to posting that article, lmao. He's using the same talking points I've seen them use since early in this process, namely that regulators are protecting Sony and don't understand the gaming industry. IIRC, Wednesday is their last chance with the CMA, and I think they'll have to come better than that if they want this. Honestly if they weren't so stubborn about divesting, they could make this work. They would just have to accept that these acquisitions on their own are not going to give them enough to push them over the top.