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> Wow that's some incredible brigading. Is it really brigading? The entire gaming community hates those practices. Nobody is manipulating people to downvote th

> Wow that's some incredible brigading. Is it really brigading? The entire gaming community hates those practices. Nobody is manipulating people to downvote this comment. It's genuine hate and digust. Paying the price of a game to unlock one single character is a joke. EA's reply is also very bad. "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes." I fail to see how paying $80 gives players a sense of pride and accomplishment.

danso 9y ago
I mean "brigading" in the technical sense of people passing around the link and getting more people to pile on than would organically occur, not necessarily the astroturf connotation. Because for most users, comments under a certain threshold (-50) are hidden (but can be revealed manually). The entire r/Battlefront userbase is just 91K users.
- lightedman 9y ago
  "I mean "brigading" in the technical sense of people passing around the link and getting more people to pile on than would organically occur," When you are passing the link to other people, that is wholly organic. When you use a bot, it is not. Plain and simple. You can't rely upon a subscriber number for real numbers of players. Bet plenty of other people from forums saw this as well.
- ric2b 9y ago
  I believe the comment received reddit gold specifically to keep it visible.
rcfox 9y ago
It's not a perfect measure, but there are about 90k subscribers for the subreddit and about 4x that number of downvotes.
- Raphmedia 9y ago
  Reddit encourages cross-posting. This thread for example https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7cm3o8/the_reason_you_shouldnt_be_concerned_with_ea/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7cm3o8/the_... There's also the fact that the main thread has 62.9k votes and is probably on the front-page. This make it so that every reddit users will go through it, see the horrible corporate answer and downvote it. I myself am not subscribed to that subreddit and still downvoted that comment. Edit: And there are probably people looking at https://www.reddit.com/user/EACommunityTeam https://www.reddit.com/user/EACommunityTeam directly. Edit2: And it blew up on Twitter so that's a lot of the downvotes.
  - danso 9y ago
    But this activity is considered to be a form of "brigading": https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/24d8cj/whats_vote_brigading_and_why_is_it_illegal/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/24d8cj/whats_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_brigading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_brigading Brigading is not "illegal" on Reddit, but some subreddit's explicitly forbid cross-posting because of the brigading effect. Such subreddits require the use of the np.reddit.com domain, which points to a mirror of a Reddit thread while disabling vote functionality.

danso 9y ago

I mean "brigading" in the technical sense of people passing around the link and getting more people to pile on than would organically occur, not necessarily the astroturf connotation. Because for most users, comments under a certain threshold (-50) are hidden (but can be revealed manually). The entire r/Battlefront userbase is just 91K users.

lightedman 9y ago
"I mean "brigading" in the technical sense of people passing around the link and getting more people to pile on than would organically occur," When you are passing the link to other people, that is wholly organic. When you use a bot, it is not. Plain and simple. You can't rely upon a subscriber number for real numbers of players. Bet plenty of other people from forums saw this as well.
ric2b 9y ago
I believe the comment received reddit gold specifically to keep it visible.

rcfox 9y ago

It's not a perfect measure, but there are about 90k subscribers for the subreddit and about 4x that number of downvotes.

Raphmedia 9y ago
Reddit encourages cross-posting. This thread for example https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7cm3o8/the_reason_you_shouldnt_be_concerned_with_ea/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7cm3o8/the_... There's also the fact that the main thread has 62.9k votes and is probably on the front-page. This make it so that every reddit users will go through it, see the horrible corporate answer and downvote it. I myself am not subscribed to that subreddit and still downvoted that comment. Edit: And there are probably people looking at https://www.reddit.com/user/EACommunityTeam https://www.reddit.com/user/EACommunityTeam directly. Edit2: And it blew up on Twitter so that's a lot of the downvotes.
- danso 9y ago
  But this activity is considered to be a form of "brigading": https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/24d8cj/whats_vote_brigading_and_why_is_it_illegal/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/24d8cj/whats_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_brigading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_brigading Brigading is not "illegal" on Reddit, but some subreddit's explicitly forbid cross-posting because of the brigading effect. Such subreddits require the use of the np.reddit.com domain, which points to a mirror of a Reddit thread while disabling vote functionality.