Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6533159-20150930152159/@comment-25555436-20151003143856

The Bespectacled Guy wrote: LiveandSound wrote: Bespectacled, there are always monetary transactions involved. It would be weird if there weren't. Are you suggesting that it is common practice for companies to pay for a certain character to win in an online "battle-to-the-death" web series? I'm saying that monetary transactions are always involved when possible. I never said it was only, nor specifically, in Death Battle. If they involve a character that belongs to a corrupt company like, say, EA, then it's practically guaranteed. To think otherwise would just be dumb ignorancy.

There's a reason for this. Publicity. Showing their character already works as publicity, which will help sales/views/Whatever even if indirectly or accidental. However, their character winning is more effective, as it's basically saying "It's better". It's not something you'd notice suddenly, especially someone with a slow mind, yet has been in existence for practically decades at least.

For example, companies always pay a lot of money, millions and even billions, to get their movies nominated for an award, and if possible for them to win. They do this even if the movie itself is good enough to nominate/win by itself, just to guarantee it. Just being nominated, let alone winning, is enough for a movie to look "better" in the eyes of the viewers, thus increasing the number of people that will pay to see it, or buy it, because "it won an Oscar, so it must be good".

The same happens with game awards and reviews. Companies, when possible, always pay profesional reviewers (the "officially" profesional ones, not people like Angry Joe) to give their games a higher score, which is why some games, despite their huge flaws, do not get low scores or even get high ones.

And they also pay to get their game(s) nominated, and possibly win. Even in the ones where supposedly people vote, the votes are never the true amount. Companies pay to get an edge, an advantage, although unlike contests where people don't vote, said advantage is not a guaranteed win, nor is it as significant.

Call it bullshit all you want, kid. This is a practice that has existed since before your grandfather was even born. Whinning and refusing to accept reality won't change it.