![]() Nothing to do with the content of the video.” “Our team in Australia asked the video be taken down because some of our conditions on disclosure on sponsored weren’t met. “Nobody has been blacklisted by ,” Williams wrote. He first clarified that Gggmanlives was not “blacklisted” as he said, and that the video takedown request was not related to the content. Lee Williams, who oversees the Game Changer Network in his role as international manager of community engagement with Electronic Arts, commented via Twitter on the matter. Gggmanlives was also tweeting out code giveaway details for “Anthem” on Friday, another perk that could be a part of the Game Changers Network (though he only thanked the EA Australia Twitter account). I was just told it was to be pulled down and was basically a breach of contract or something along those lines.” ![]() “I basically wasn’t allowed to say anything negative about the game if I also had the watermark in because the watermark means EA endorses it and shares it through the Game Changers network or something,” Gggmanlives told VG247 via Twitter direct message. The review was still not a positive take on the latest title from EA. He then re-uploaded an altered version of the review without watermarks. “I’m blacklisted by EA now and had to delete it,” he wrote in a tweet Friday. Gggmanlives told VG247 that the company went a step further and actually paid him to create an “Anthem” video review.Īfter his negative review of “Anthem” was posted, Gggmanlives said he was told to take down the video, and to re-upload without EA’s watermarks. Basically, EA offers access to games for select content creators and players/influencers. Gggmanlives is a part of Electronic Arts’ (EA) Game Changer Network, which is a community partnership program that “fuses content creators and expert players directly into the game development process enabling early collaborative feedback for improvements,” according to EA. ”ĮA has not responded to Variety’s followup questions as of publication time regarding what about the disclosure in the video was not in line with requirements and whether or not any other reviewers received similar requests. Our full disclosure rules can be found here. We’ve not asked for the content of the video to be changed, or ‘blacklisted’ the creator. ![]() In this case, the conditions for disclosure for this specific video were not met – which is something we adhere very strictly to – so we asked for it to be taken down and corrected. ![]() “Our GameChangers program is not designed to pay for review content. EA sent the following statement to Variety: ![]() EA also clarified that it sent Gggmanlives a request to fix the conditions for disclosure to be corrected, and was not asking him to change the content of the review nor did they “blacklist” him. YouTuber Gggmanlives says Electronic Arts paid him to review “ Anthem” and subsequently “blacklisted” him for the negative review, which the company denied in a statement to Variety on Friday.ĮA denies that the takedown request was due to the negative review, but says it was instead in response to the video not meeting its disclosure guidelines. ![]()
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