The people who aren't taking part in this ridiculous argument are the ones winning.

This is not as bad as the media was painting it, but still is a very ugly practice that I think we should not deffend, he already makes tons of money, why does he need to be paid for being biased in his videos? This is just greedy and questionable, it may not be ilegal but who can really trust this guy when we all know that he can be so easily bought?

Is true that other youtubers have done it way worse and they are not getting even a fraction of the backlash he is getting though.

I get you but let's not forget he did disclose it was a promotion. Yes he could of disclosed it better and maybe he fucked up on that part but the media have gone to town on this and twisted it to make a better story. At the end of the day he did nothing wrong and he did more than he needed to but he could of been more clear. 

If he got paid to review it in a positive light then that is a lot worse because that is just outright lying since a review requires positives and negatives opinions to give a completely accurate review on your experience of a game.

You were absolutely right, jesus christ. I fall for it far too easily. There are some people that every post they make seems to be passive agressive or confrontational. I should learn to ignore such people.

lol It's worse than a PS4 vs XB1 thread. 

They need to expose Rubius now! His opinions about Ubisoft games are awfully positive, that can't be right.

Is that really a big deal? Like, every celebrity can be "bought." Youtubers do sponsorships because it generates a lot of money. It becomes unethical if he doesn't disoclose that this is a sponsorship deal, which he did. 

Then you're also going to have to claim that just about every company in existence is dishonest. Mobile stores require you to sign off on electronic forms that no one reads,  restaurants put all their federally required nutrition information in the back corner of a website that no one will read, car advertisements will quickly speed through all of the fine print when putting an ad on air, etc.

Bottom line, as a consumer, it's your job to be informed about things. If you're trusting a spokesperson, make sure you do your research on who they are, what ties they may have to the product, and whether they've done stuff like this in the past. There's admittedly some grey area in terms of how accessible advertisers/promotionalists have to make that material, but if it's in the description of a video which is a single click away, then I can't say I have a lot of sympathy for anyone who might have possibly been duped by this.

Never said he is a reviewer. And how rarely he does or does not give opinions about a game is irrelevant, because he did give an opinion in the video. A positive opinion, which he was paid for. Now, would he have given that same positive opinion if he weren't paid for it? Maybe, maybe not. We don't know, and that's a problem.

For the record, some are responding as if anyone who takes issue with this much just hate PDP. I rarely watch Youtubers much less PDP, but his Mordor video was actually funny and entertaining. But it was an advertisement. We can just agree to disagree, though PDP himself admitted in the video posted in the OP that he could have made it more apparent he was shilling :)

No qualms there, most of them are :)