Microsoft paying YouTubers for positive Xbox One coverage ( edited with more info )

[Mr Puggsly]

ganoncrotch said:

Mr Puggsly said:
Why is this a bad thing? MS is paying for advertising, no big deal.

If Youtubers are misleading people for money though, that isn't MS's problem.

This is an OTT example but if I pay a hitman to attempt to kill someone and they fail and I'm found out, do you think there would be no charges on me because I simply offered money for someone to break the law? I didn't do it myself?

If it was buying advertising that would be perfectly fine, but this is very clearly not just paying for some promotion, to not allow the youtubers to say anything bad about the system and not acknowledge the fact that the views they're expressing are not their own but a paid endorsement is the point where this becomes illegal. I bolded the anything to point out... if reviewing or talking about a game to get your money you're going to have to give it 100%, 10/10 , A+ whatever rank you use, because to give it lower suggests something about it is negitive and you get no monies.

Until this is cleared up a lot of people are going to be taking positive videos about the X1 and bundling them all up as Shrill advertisers and that is just wrong. There is actually a hell of a lot of people who legit love their new Xbox's and have a ton of videos about their cool new features and they're going to get shit rained on them because people will call them out as liars and paid advertisers, it undermines legit letsplayers and gamers.

Wow, horrible example. I'll ignore it.

It seems to me MS is paying people to make a commerical for their product. You don't have to mislead people to do that in my opinion. However, it seems like this is being compared to paying for positive reviews. Which is something completely different.