Paid Reviews: Critics or Conmen? Gaming's Ad-verse Situation

BreakABone · 03-13-2012, 02:13 PM

I think this is an interesting.. and so far best.. articulation on the problem the video game media has.

Not saying its perfect, but he does tend to do a good job of backing up his points. Though, I also think he picks on CoD a bit too much.

KillerGremlin · 03-15-2012, 04:23 AM

I know how we can become rich guys. Vampy, listen up (also: patent pending). We launch a game review site:

It will be called "Rake." Indie reviews for Indie games.

We will write hipster reviews that are mostly negative to mainstream games, and focus on indie titles. We will focus mostly on white people games, but occasionally we will offer a white opinion on black people games.

Now, we are definitely going to be lowering our scores. And we will become the trendy and number once source for people to hate video games.

Who is in? This has money written all over it.

gekko · 03-17-2012, 03:49 AM

He seemed to think all gaming journalists are teenage boys trying to score an early copy of their favorite game. While far too many are, questioning the journalistic integrity of someone who isn't really a journalist is pretty foolish. Fan sites are just that, fan sites. The point of getting pre-release games is so they can deliver a review in a timely manner. Corporations can afford to spend a few hundred bucks a month to buy the games (or simply rent them) if they were not provided.

While a fan site will do anything to get on a PR persons "list", once again, corporations shouldn't be in the same conversation. Could EA decide to pull advertising off IGN? Absolutely. Will they? No. IGN is the biggest gaming site on the internet, to not advertise on it would be foolish. Publishers choosing to blacklist a site like that would hurt them, so there's no reason the journalists can't stand their ground.

I think one of the biggest issues with gaming journalism is the lack of formal training. Too many people don't actually have a journalism degree and never really understand what their responsibility is to society (in general, videos games not so much).

Combine 017 · 03-17-2012, 05:55 PM

I want to see Earl gone wild.

KillerGremlin · 03-17-2012, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gekko

I think one of the biggest issues with gaming journalism is the lack of formal training. Too many people don't actually have a journalism degree and never really understand what their responsibility is to society (in general, videos games not so much).

The Internet has killed journalism. Well, the Internet and Fox news.