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Everyone says Gamespot canned him because of the review. Then a Gamespot mod essentially confirms that he was fired for that reason, but says it was CNet (not Gamespot) that did the firing because Eidos complained to CNet. Now Wired claims it had nothing to do with Eidos at all, because somebody who works for CNet (not Gamespot) theorizes it had to do with "larger issues"?
There is absolutely no way a forum mod would know why he was fired. Part of his tin parachute would be an agreement to STFU.
First of all, cool your fucking jets. I wasn't talking about me personally, I'm talking in fucking hypotheticals.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
It would be nice to know how a game really measures up compared to the hype. No, that doesn't mean I want a bullshit piece, I do want it to still be an objective review on the merits of the game. All I'm saying is that there is a benefit to having reviews prior to the release. That's all.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
Ok, fine. What the fuck does that have to do with anything I said?Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
From the latest PA post:
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I will tell you the Gerstmann Story as we heard it. Management claimed to have spoken to Jeff about his "tone" before, and no doubt it was this tone that created tensions between their editorial content, the direction of the site, and the carefully crafted relationships that allowed Gamespot to act as an engine of revenue creation. After Gerstmann's savage flogging of Kane & Lynch, a game whose marketing investment on Gamespot alone reached into the hundreds of thousands, Eidos (we are told) pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of future advertising from the site.
Management has another story, of course: management always has another story. But it's the firm belief internally that Jeff was sacrificed. And it had to be Jeff, at least, we believe, precisely because of his stature and longevity. It made for a dramatic public execution that left the editorial staff in disarray. Would that it were only about the 6.0 - at least then you'd know how to score something if you wanted to keep your Goddamned job. No, this was worse: the more nebulous "tone" would be the guide. I assume it was designed to terrify them.
To me, this means you live on an alternate Earth where you have to preorder games at GameStop and blindly buy them because there is no other means of procuring a game. This sounds like a very terrible place. I recant my harsh words and replace them with sympathy.Quote:
Originally Posted by g0zen
Fuck helling, no. I don't preorder or buy blindly. However, I do like seeing games I enjoy be successful. And I think they have a better chance of being successful if they are reviewed early in time for people to get slated for a copy at release, because we all understand that release day sales are important and not everyone has the savvy to seek out deals, get it online, or wait to make their purchase later. We know what happens, when they don't get the game they want THEN they buy the real mediocre shit just because they don't want to have wasted a trip.\
Also, congrats, trolling successful. You really got me fucking steamed there for a second.
But if the early reviews are biased because of conditional embargoes than that all goes out the window.
And thanks. I am very fucking angry today so I wanted to share.
Hmmmm. Maybe Eidos should stop making shitty games and then they won't review them poorly.Quote:
Originally Posted by wEEman33
This guys an idiot, I'd fire him too.
i wish more people could admit thisQuote:
Originally Posted by burgundy