"You may not say anything negative or disparaging about Machinima, Xbox One or any of its Games in your Campaign Video;"

This is the issue is it not? Legality aside, surely it's the opinion of youtubers that is in question.

@Damagon - your use of previous campaigns don't help the argument against it as it's a standard agreement, but in most cases Machinima just mean mention E3, mention Pax, they don't mind surely if you insult it as long as you mention it. (unless in their terms is the same sentence above...)

@selnor1983 - MS advertising scheme aside, would you trust youtubers opinion if they can be swayed by an extra $3?

@ioi - I don't think this is the same as what you think. Yes, a lot of advertising is just giving a media outlet money or a free copy of the product to review but that money/product doesn't usually come with the incentive to give it praise when maybe none is deserved. Top Gear have reviewed many cars over the years, but many times they compare the cars to other competitors cars and choose that over the car they are reviewing even if they say it's a good car. They mention good and bad points in their flashy TV review. Omitting the 'bad points' for the money is the part surely in question.


Overall, I'd think that the morality and trustworthiness of youtubers is the real concern as they are the ones receiving money for being deceptive.

All brand do it. Sony all times.

Actually worse. Sony keeps saying they wont fake reviews, and then do it again. This was in this thred. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=176573&page=3

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4741259.stm

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/sony-and-the-fake-psp-blog/186

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sony-pays-for-fake-reviews/

Id like to point out, that this site VGC with its followers have never posted this before or ever do this about Sony.

The world is not rosie. And every company pushes the limits.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=755600

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/samsung-taiwan-htc-smartphones-reviews-113328

What Machinima/Microsoft did was not illegal. Above is illegal.

Please show where others did this while asking people to HIDE it is a pormotion?/

Proof?

None of those are the same as what MS was doing try again. I repeat, where did Sony, samsung pay for promotion only to force people to not say ot hide it wass a promotion? Sony and sdamsung GOT fined so your actually making the point for us. Anyone does something wrong they should get called out, unless it's MS right Selnor? The rules don;t apply to MS when it comes to you.

Those companies got called out and fined, like MS is getting called out now, the way it hould be. You are so obsessed with damage control for MS, and bringing up things other companies did, which only hurts your own argument. They got crap for it, why shouldn't ms?

If you read your own sources, you would find out that they got criticised for it and paid the fine for it.

Now MS got caught so they must do the same, your sources above give you even less reason to defend them.

This thread is over. Game set and match. It was legal, even the makers of this very site your on has come onto here and told you nothings wrong. Every company does this.

Id be much more worried about illegal activity in reviews if I were you. But I dont think you will because the wrong company is in the firing line.

/thread.

WELCOME TO ADVERTISING ON THE INTERNET.

Well Done Microsoft, Machinima, EA, Samsung, Sony Nintendo. Well every single company in the world who can use this perfetly legal advertising campaign.

You'll find your wrong. Its perfectly legal. As the makers of this very site have come on and even said to you all that this is common and is NOT illegal. Nothing will come of this fiasco at all. Machinima/Microsoft as well as EA have done nothing wrong. The promotion itself is not allowed to be secret. And it wasnt. The details withing were, and thats perfectly legal.

This level of blind devotion is sickening