Is this true?

[Cyan]

If so, that's useless time, Disappointing. Playstation doesn't need a negative campaign, they are starting to look bad themselves with their decisions as of late.

The others I don't care, but Alex is one of my videogames' heroes criticizing stuttering in games and because of his knowledge.

Leaked Discord Exposes Anti PS5 Campaign: Klobrille, XboxEra, and Digital Foundry’s Alex Battaglia Among Members https://t.co/pm6iP0kVZg

— IconEra (@IconEra_) February 10, 2025

Old news, but it's interesting seeing my name pop up as one of the people this co-ordinated #Xbox fanboy group worked to silence for sharing truths about #PS5 they deemed too positive.

Also amusing how nigh everything people like myself and @N_X_G posted ended up being true… https://t.co/XlEgfaQKax pic.twitter.com/nEpeyndkGn

— NIB (@nib95_) February 10, 2025

Discussion - Leaked Discord Exposes Anti PS5 Campaign: Klobrille, XboxEra, and Digital Foundry’s Alex Battaglia Among Members

Back in 2020, before the PS5 even launched, Colbert from NeoGAF set up a Discord server to spread FUD about the Console. The server included some well known members, like Alex Battaglia from Digital Foundry, Klobrille, doncabesa (XboxEra founder), and oggmeiler, who was openly racist toward...

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[arandomguy]

I'm guessing I'm out of touch with gaming social media or just not understanding this but skimming this posts and the first page of the linked thread why does any of this matter or why is this relevant at all?

 

[Cyan]

I'm guessing I'm out of touch with gaming social media or just not understanding this but skimming this posts and the first page of the linked thread why does any of this matter or why is this relevant at all?

found it on another forum I just read, but it's not a matter to take lightly, if true. I still don't believe 'cos it changed nothing this generation nor it'd change anything anyways, and I don't know them, except the people of DF, but those are things that might have implications, and tbh it hurts the Xbox brand more than anything else, since some of them are, apparently -I don't know who they are-, Xbox fans.

 

[Dominik D]

Which part of those selective discord dumps point to anti-Sony conspiracy? It's mostly edgelords hating on shit and being drunk on power. Typical Internet shit only people who are 1) terminally online, and 2) too invested in a brand would take as a campaign against PlayStation.

 

[trinibwoy]

The others I don't care, but Alex is one of my videogames' heroes criticizing stuttering in games and because of his knowledge.

“One final point, while I do think Digital Foundry's Alex Battaglia made a poor choice choosing to be in this Discord group, I do not believe him to be one of the fanboy propaganda pushers and instead believe his work at DF is superb.

There are no incriminating or questionable posts from him in the group that I've seen or has been shared.”

 

[Shifty Geezer]

 

[Cyan]

“One final point, while I do think Digital Foundry's Alex Battaglia made a poor choice choosing to be in this Discord group, I do not believe him to be one of the fanboy propaganda pushers and instead believe his work at DF is superb.

There are no incriminating or questionable posts from him in the group that I've seen or has been shared.”

thanks! After studying the discord messages and stuff...

Looking closely, I don't see that they've written anything strange, it's just that the "insider" people or the videogames media have their discords and they gather in many and there will also be those who do analysis and put their opinions of the games that they are analyzing,.

Now, I laughed with that guy Klobrille who they say is an Xbox fanboy, saying "I'm not going to play anything that doesn't run 60 FPS this generation, period", and in the end it turned out that the console who has released more 30fps only games is Microsoft's.

Alex got dirty by association.

Maybe they are baiting us, eh? It may be that it was a huge discord with a lot of activity with hundreds of members and someone started posting that shit about "cancelling" the PS5 and nobody paid any attention to it (I am like on 40 discords and know what I mean) and now they're telling us that it was a discord to attack the playstation.

Now if this was a small discord 100% dedicated to planning coordinated attacks on the PS5 and you were a member, even if you didn't post regularly, they still talk about you (first of all for not reporting).

It's like if I am in a Telegram group with some colleagues and suddenly they start planning to kidnap someone and I play innocent for not posting. (of course saving the distance between committing a crime against someone and throwing shit at a junk)

We'd have to see the evidence, that's clear.

It seems to me that the guy from Digital Foundry, like other membes, was in the "meetings", but sleeping and did not know what the others were doing.

 

[Dominik D]

It's like if I am in a Telegram group with some colleagues

Registered in Virgin Islands with HQ in Dubai and core dev team from Saint Petersburg, I wouldn't be surprised if people ended up with messages on Telegram they never themselves wrote.