Fans accuse Bethesda of faking crowd reactions during E3 presentation Video game giant Bethesda has been met with criticism from fans after they accused the company of faking crowd reactions during their E3 presentation on June 9. While many were happy with the Fallout developer\u2019s presser, some viewers were suspicious of the crowd\u2019s reactions, and took to social media to air their distrust. Reddit user \u2018Uesugi\u2019 posted a clip titled \u2018Who clapped?\u2019 which shows excessive noises from the crowd during one segment that seemingly doesn\u2019t match up to the actual feedback on the video feed. Many people weren\u2019t convinced \u201cI see a lot of people near the right side of the screen clapping. I still think the whole crowd was fake and planted though, or at least picked out to sit under mics or something. People were still cheering loud as hell after the 3rd mobile game in a row was announced,\u201d one person commented, agreeing that it seemed suspicious. \u201cIt seems like the entire two front rows were family members or actual devs and they placed the mics there.\u201d another user replied, \u201cyou could see the absence of movement\/hype in the crowd vs the first two rows.\u201d Other Reddit threads seem to air the same criticisms, with user \u2018BKoopa\u2019 saying, \u201cPaid for audience. They are cheering randomly like it is a game or that they\u2019re getting paid per cheer.\u201d Even Twitter fans thought the whole thing was suspicious, with one unconvinced user tweeting, \u201cI\u2019m convinced this Bethesda crowd is either 80% fake or canned in for the stream. Something just seems really off. I know people LOVE Bethesda but like\u2026c\u2019mon.\u201d \u201cDo you think gamers are fucking idiots? Cut the bullshit. We know that Orion demo was faked, and we know you\u2019ve planted hype guys in the audience. You\u2019re sickening to me. RIP Bethesda,\u201d another disgruntled viewer tweeted. I’m convinced this bethesda crowd is either 80% fake or canned in for the stream. Something just seems really off. I know people LOVE bethesda but like\u2026c’mon. #E3 \u2014 Matt (@AwesomeFaceProd) June 10, 2019 Do you think gamers are fucking idiots? Cut the bullshit. We know that Orion demo was faked, and we know you’ve planted hype guys in the audience. You’re sickening to me. RIP bethesda \u2014 Enny (@EnnyishQuil) June 10, 2019 Some think the claims are ridiculous Supporters for the company have hit back at the conspiracies though, unconvinced by the accusations. \u201cEh, these conspiracies sound cool, but maybe consider that the people still paying to go to this conference are die hard fans and\/or people who are going to have fun and make the most of it?\u201d Reddit user \u2018Bhu124\u2019 said. \u201cIf I were going to E3, I\u2019d probably choose to have fun instead of be angry, even if Bethesda deserves a lot of anger. I\u2019d probably sarcastically cheer before I\u2019d boo anyways.\u201d \u201cYou also need to take in account that there are not paid people there but sometimes the team who works for the game or Bethesda in the front row. These people when seeing the things they made either cheer or try to get the people hyped up.\u201d another commenter replied. It\u2019s hard to say for sure whether Bethesda faked their crowd reactions, although the idea does seem a little bit ridiculous when you think about it. The most likely cause of the loud crowd feedback is probably because the front few rows were dedicated to excited Bethesda employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fans accuse Bethesda of faking crowd reactions during E3 presentation Video game giant Bethesda has been met with criticism from fans after they accused the company of faking crowd reactions during their E3 presentation on June 9. While many were happy with the Fallout developer\u2019s presser, some viewers were suspicious of the crowd\u2019s reactions, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}