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I basically don’t believe anyone who says the experience is perfect. Either they’re lying or they just have a weird tolerance for games playing like poo poo
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Nov 29, 2019 01:45
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leftist heap posted:I basically don’t believe anyone who says the experience is perfect. Either they’re lying or they just have a weird tolerance for games playing like poo poo
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Nov 29, 2019 08:49
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leftist heap posted:I basically don’t believe anyone who says the experience is perfect. Either they’re lying or they just have a weird tolerance for games playing like poo poo The technology works. Dont work tor everyone, all it takes a problem in the chain to make the whole thing bad, but if you have luck its playable and you forget that you are streaming. For casual gameplay is completelly ok. Is the business model that is a problem. You pay once, but use their servers forever. It dont seems a good business model.
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Nov 29, 2019 09:08
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1/3 of /r/stadia moderators are openly Google employees
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Nov 29, 2019 09:37
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an actual frog posted:I-I had no idea it would be so shameless You didn't include that they ended the post with "those Stadia people are Wizards!" No real poster would capitalize the word wizard like that. It's like a corporate mandated keyword.
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Nov 29, 2019 11:23
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The stadia twist for me was that the latency was actually fine, it just looked like poo poo.
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Nov 29, 2019 11:44
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fuf posted:The stadia twist for me was that the latency was actually fine, it just looked like poo poo. Wonder if they will fix this before 1449 days.
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Nov 29, 2019 12:16
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Ineffiable posted:No real poster would capitalize the word wizard like that. It's like a corporate mandated keyword. It's also one of the reasons Apostle is (very clearly) not being paid for his fanboysm. Paid "influencers" for this kind of things tend to spew positive bullshit (like some of the posts on Reddit) and roll with the punches if attacked / try to defuse the situation. No decent shill would engage/keep up the level of hostility Apostle has, and if Google is good at something, it's advertisement. That said, I wanted Stadia to be some kind of "Netflix, but for games", so thanks to this thread I've discovered the Xbox pass for pc and I'm currently downloading The Outer Worlds (that I almost dropped full retail price for 2days ago, and only stopped cause I don't want to encourage exclusives on PC)...and at 4 quids a month it'll take me a full year to match the 25% off sales price that alone would have been on the Epic Store, so thanks goons!
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Nov 29, 2019 15:56
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leftist heap posted:I basically don’t believe anyone who says the experience is perfect. Either they’re lying or they just have a weird tolerance for games playing like poo poo My favorite example of this is people saying they have a flawless experience playing games from hotel WIFI connections. Either they just let it load to the main menu and called it good or they played through an insane amount of freezes, jitter, and compression blocking and called it a solid experience.
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Nov 29, 2019 16:01
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This discussion ended pages ago but the Xbox Elite controller is not for everyone, but it is really cool, especially the new revision. Instantly improved my Devil May Cry play because I can map all the buttons it’s beneficial to keep charging all the time to the paddles. I have no build quality issues and I can’t even imagine how weak your baby arms must be if you think it’s too heavy, I don’t even work out.
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Nov 29, 2019 16:40
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Xbox: Do you even lift?
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Nov 29, 2019 16:48
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That Italian Guy posted:It's also one of the reasons Apostle is (very clearly) not being paid for his fanboysm. Paid "influencers" for this kind of things tend to spew positive bullshit (like some of the posts on Reddit) and roll with the punches if attacked / try to defuse the situation. No decent shill would engage/keep up the level of hostility Apostle has, and if Google is good at something, it's advertisement. a: how exactly do you know so much about secret paid influencer posting styles b: you don't, do you? this is just some weird flex? c: sigh
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Nov 29, 2019 16:53
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:a: how exactly do you know so much about secret paid influencer posting styles
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Nov 29, 2019 17:00
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Sarcasm aside, if that's the case I'm genuinely curious and would like to read said links
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Nov 29, 2019 17:02
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Yeah the answer to the mistery is "be part of online media/social media in TYOOL 2019". (unless ofc it was  )
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Nov 29, 2019 17:03
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:Sarcasm aside, if that's the case I'm genuinely curious and would like to read said links e: here's something to start with: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/can-you-trust-online-reviews-here-s-how-find-fakes-n976756 Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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Nov 29, 2019 17:03
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Ok it was not a joke, so as a very quick response to that you can read the criteria used by an extension I use called ReviewMeta https://reviewmeta.com/ (parses Amazon reviews and tries to give a more accurate "review score" by filtering out unnatural reviews). Using certain keywords/phrases, not engaging with negative pushback, act in numbers (so phrase repetition between different sources), etc are all good indicators. Edit: all good reasons for being sure no one in their right mind would pay someone to try and influence someone on a Forum in 2019 - since they are bad platforms for this kind of things - especially one as insular as SA. Their money could be better spent on Twitter or Reddit. Also, most "shills" are bots, or "bot-like" astroturfers, whose language knowledge is somewhat limited - that's one of the reasons their post sound so unnatural, and why they mostly stick to canned dialog interactions. But they are getting better (especially the bots). Unpacking the Social Media Bot is a good read on that, but there are tons of online media articles about this. That Italian Guy fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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Nov 29, 2019 17:17
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That Italian Guy posted:Ok it was not a joke, so as a very quick response to that you can read the criteria used by an extension I use called ReviewMeta https://reviewmeta.com/ (parses Amazon reviews and tries to give a more accurate "review score" by filtering out unnatural reviews). quote:Playmobil Security Check Point That's surprising.
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Nov 29, 2019 17:58
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univbee posted:Xbox: Do you even lift? My upper/lower body balance is all weird, I can barely lift the elite controller but I can easily squat the xbox
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Nov 29, 2019 18:02
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limaCAT posted:That's surprising. Consider that this is only for that specific listing. Different listings for the same item from other retailers or another Amazon store would be considered an individual listing, since they would have a different review score / reviews.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:02
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There's no set way social media advertising is done. Just because one extension that claims to be able to filter out fake reviews uses some criteria doesn't mean they all do it the same way. Who knows if their filtering is even close to being accurate. Forums shills have been used forever, it's nothing new. But I agree, no one is doing paid shilling on a platform like SA, forums are no longer relevant. That Italian Guy posted:Also, most "shills" are bots, or "bot-like" astroturfers, whose language knowledge is somewhat limited - that's one of the reasons their post sound so unnatural, and why they mostly stick to canned dialog interactions. But they are getting better (especially the bots). Unpacking the Social Media Bot is a good read on that, but there are tons of online media articles about this. Tons of companies send out free products for reviews (everybody knows they have to write something positive if they want to get additional free products in the future)
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Nov 29, 2019 18:04
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:Sarcasm aside, if that's the case I'm genuinely curious and would like to read said links The Atlantic has been publishing articles about how lovely Amazon is at a rate of about 1 a month for the past two years, and many of them have detailed that an enormous amount of amazon reviews are fake. quote:Several users of the site Fiverr, an online marketplace where people can pick up odd jobs, promised to use more than 80 different Amazon accounts apiece to post glowing reviews. In at least one case, a reviewer agreed to arrange shipment that involved receiving an empty envelope—not actually containing the product to be reviewed—in an attempt to trick Amazon into marking the review as verified, court documents say. (A different one that I couldn't find immediately talked about how a lot of vendors had switched tracks to giving their competitors one star reviews.)
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Nov 29, 2019 18:06
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Lambert posted:Forums shills have been used forever, it's nothing new. Going all "Chyna!" about it just because it's the current geopolitical enemy seems weird.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:07
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Cardiovorax posted:Just to respond to that, in case someone got the wrong impression here: I wasn't. I just heard from Chinese internet users that this is apparently particularly common in (but by means unique to) China and compounded by the government apparently doing the same thing to boot. It's not a politics thing, just something I've been told by people who live there. Unfortunately, this is something western governments do as well. Just recently, such an operation in the UK became public knowledge. And fake reviews are a dime a dozen everywhere, I know people that got into the "free products for reviews" thing. Typically, they don't even open the expensive PC components they get, just write a positive review and then sell it on Ebay.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:09
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Lambert posted:There's no set way social media advertising is done. Just because one extension that claims to be able to filter out fake reviews uses some criteria doesn't mean they all do it the same way. Who knows if their filtering is even close to being accurate.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:11
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Lambert posted:There's no set way social media advertising is done. Just because one extension that claims to be able to filter out fake reviews uses some criteria doesn't mean they all do it the same way. Who knows if their filtering is even close to being accurate. Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I appreciate the links, but I already know you can buy Amazon reviews in bulk, that much is obvious. What's weird is when people squint at a post and go "this looks like a shill. i can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shills in my time"
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Nov 29, 2019 18:12
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Lambert posted:Unfortunately, this is something western governments do as well. Just recently, such an operation in the UK became public knowledge. And fake reviews are a dime a dozen everywhere, I know people that got into the "free products for reviews" thing. Typically, they don't even open the expensive PC components they get, just write a positive review and then sell it on Ebay. Also, if I can get free computer stuff for writing boilerplate reviews about them, I think I kinda want to get in on that.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:12
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So how's GeForce Now doing?quote:The following games have been added to GeForce NOW: quote:The following games have gone offline until further notice: 
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Nov 29, 2019 18:14
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Cardiovorax posted:Not disagreeing, just sharing what I heard. Take it for what that's worth, it's not a personally held opinion. Just have to take a look around. I know a German friend of mine was writing reviews in exchange for free products for Mindfactory (others as well, but this is the one company I remember).
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Nov 29, 2019 18:15
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Lambert posted:Just have to take a look around. I know a German friend of mine was writing reviews in exchange for free products for Mindfactory (others as well, but this is the one company I remember).
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Nov 29, 2019 18:16
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good news for anyone who spend $50 to play Farming Simulator 19 on Stadia: https://kotaku.com/google-says-itll-give-refunds-to-anyone-who-bought-stad-1840068054 Bad news is that you still spent $50 to play Farming Simulator 19 on Stadia. Even when you get your refund, that will remain a fact about you that is true forever.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:18
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Gobbeldygook posted:GeForce Now just dropped support for almost as many games as Stadia has. This amounts to deleting some people's Dark Souls saves with no warning. I mean, that's horrible but can you play Farming Simulator 19?
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Nov 29, 2019 18:20
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:I mean, that's horrible but can you play Farming Simulator 19?
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Nov 29, 2019 18:23
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https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1200459419038842880
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Nov 29, 2019 18:25
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Gobbeldygook posted:GeForce Now just dropped support for almost as many games as Stadia has. This amounts to deleting some people's Dark Souls saves with no warning. I think Steam Cloud is standard on all of those, so if someone were to install Dark Souls on their personal PC via Steam they'd salvage their saves.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:33
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lolquote:As for the gameplay resolution, there no 4K, yet. However, the games are undeniably higher resolution than the PS4 and Xbox-one. I've also been so shocked at the complete elimination of screen tear. I'm so used to it from the PS4 that I usually ignore it, but it's so noticeable in its absence when using the Stadia. I also need to point out that the Chromecast Ultra does output 4K at 60FPS and that's what you're getting from it. Stadia also does stream at 4K 60FPS (see Google's explanation here) However, because of the lack of 4K native games available on Stadia at the moment, that's not really the end result. What you do get though, is an image that is better than PS4 and Xbox due to the upscaling applied by Google's servers. Not only does Stadia look better than PS4 and Xbone, the sub-4k graphics are undeniably higher resolution than the 4k graphics from other systems. They're not even trying anymore. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/e3dgcp/an_earnest_letter_to_the_haters/
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Nov 29, 2019 19:26
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:good news for anyone who spend $50 to play Farming Simulator 19 on Stadia: Also you have to ask for it, they're not just doing automatic refunds. Meaning you spend however much time it takes to get customer service. And if you don't read game news websites you don't know about it. What absolute tightwads. Can't wait for January when the free games are Gylt and Trials Rising. (They won't have to offer refunds for those because nobody bought them.)
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Nov 29, 2019 19:40
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Astroturfing is a good thing that should be encouraged!quote:I'm telling you guys, companies HAVE to combat this stuff. For every negative YouTuber then Google should hire two Youtubers to shoot down myths and false narratives, hence "combat marketing." https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/e3i4xz/if_vr_and_stadia_taught_us_anything_its_that/
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Nov 29, 2019 19:53
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Stadia's consumer tribalism is pretty hilarious: it's one thing to be a fan and promote a great product, it's something else to fanaticize over a half-baked turd that needs another year in the oven.
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