Article is written by a influential person in the industry Tim Dog and he exposes a major problem that is in the industry and one that must be taken care of immediately or the industry will crumble because of it.
NeoGAF is a gaming forum that at first glance is pretty simple, it’s easy to get to, and format is easy to navigate though. It is the #1 source for all of gaming media, IGN, Gamespot, Giantbomb, you name it, they get their info from NeoGAF. The first stories, the first breaking news, & talking points all start at NeoGAF. I cannot think of any other industry that is actually influenced by a forum in the way that the videogame industry is with NeoGAF. If you want answers, or you wanna rage at something, NeoGAF is the place to start the fire.
That is great, but the problem is that it is one sided and the forum is moderated by people who have a defined hate for anything Microsoft. It is known, and sadly it is accepted. Phil Spencer, Aaron, Larry, and all the Xbox guys know it, will they admit? Nope, but they do know it, it’s pretty obvious and really NeoGAFdoesn’t hide it.
Bish is the head moderator of NeoGAF, he is the guy that verifies insiders like cboat, thuway, and even Dodd at the time. For example, if you say Xbox is getting a downclock on its CPU speed because of Yields on the ESRAM like Thuway LIED about, it has to get vetted and Bish is the guy who gives the go ahead. The thing here is that these “insiders” who all seemed to come out in force right before the launch of xbox and ps4, all would only have news that was negative or undermining of Xbox. The downclock thread (http://www.NeoGAF.com/forum/showthread.php?t=576869) is one where Thuway actively pushed out knowledge of a downclock, which as we all know now was a complete lie as the CPU was actually raised. The point though is that this actively went on, Bish supported Thuway, even banning Senninsage for a month for saying he had knowledge that the downclock wasn’t true. This is just one example of what goes on, lie is made up, thuway, dodd, cboat all chime in or whomever Bish wants to verify, and so be goes the anti-Microsoft bash fest.
If you wanna pretend that nothing is wrong, you can, as many do, but at least know one thing, the Bias will continue and won’t stop unless you stand up against it.
Full Article - By Tim Dog
Ok so what are your thoughts on NeoGAF? Anyone else think something should be done? I think its total bullshit that a site can influence the industry and consumers like this and the fact that the people in charge of this site are completely bias towards Sony. The majority of posters on NeoGAF operate as a hive mind driving the Sony propaganda machine in order to make up for the fact that the PS4 is an inferior system to the Xbox One, they are brainwashing people!
But here are some good posters on NeoGAF. Today I saw a famos poster by the name of statham call out NeoGAF on there bias in a thread that's only purpose served to shit on Xbox head, Phil Spencer. The poster had to resort to twitter because he was outnumbered on NeoGAF with not as many Xbox supporters as playstation.
MisterXMedia also had a nice article exposing NeoGAF and how CBoat is actually a NeoGAF moderator in disguise and he was one of the main people driving the Xbox One hate and lies at the beginning of this generation.
There's also the fact that Sony's head of third party relations Adam Boyes was the former boss of head moderator Bish!
I know that all of you know that NeoGAF is bias and is heavily skewing the outcome of this generation with their bullshit. I thought this topic was heavily relevant for System Wars as NeoGAF is essentially driving the massive system war and manipulating the outcome. What do you think should be done? Can something be done? Or do you completely disagree?
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