Money Money Money

Gamespot Editor fired over stating the obvious.

I don't know where to really begin on this. First of all I guess it should be taken with a grain of salt, since Kotaku did tag it as a rumor and it as of yet unconfirmed. But let's imagine for a moment that it's true.

Basically what you have here is nothing new. I'm sure this sort of thing has been going on since the invention of print, money, and printed money.

But what bugs me about it is that the guy was right. The game is horrible. What good are reviews if they're not allowed to be accurate? Eidos got mad because someone called them on the fact that THEY put out a subpar product and in retaliation, they cost the man his job. It absolutely disgusts me.

This reminds me of a story a few months back Ain't It Cool News posted about a guy who was projectionist at a movie theater. He had been writing advance reviews for the site for a while, but when he posted a (rightfully) scathing review of Fantastic Four 2, Fox contacted the theater management and got him fired.

You know movie studios, game publishers, bands, record labels, etc., if you guys didn't put out crap you wouldn't have to worry about this sort of thing. But why bother with that when you can use your wallets and barbaric strongarm technique to force people to lie about you garbage as hard as you do yourselves.

This reminds me also of something that happens at my job. EA paid Gamestop a TON of money to have a display of all EA sports games all the time, year round. Nevermind the fact that most sports are seasonal, and only have real interest a few times a year. Also, remember that Madden, Live, FIFA, NHL, and whatever else they crap out only releases one day a year. So let's say there are 20 EA Sports franchises, each with their own release date. That's 345 days a year that this display serves no purpose whatsoever. But it's always there, taking up space that I could think up 25 other uses for right now. But we're not allowed to change it at all ever.

So let's try this:

"Hey, EA. All of your games suck. Every single one of them. Every single game that you guys develop in house, not the studios you guys bought up to avoid you know, TRYING TO DO SOMETHING ON YOUR OWN, are complete crap. REPEAT: ALL EA DEVELOPED GAMES SUCK TO HIGH HEAVEN. I would rather get punched in the nuts than play any of them, and I will tell everyone who will listen, this exact same thing, ESPECIALLY 100% of my customers. Go straight to hell and let Hitler and Satan take turns assraping you."

So logic would dictate that since EA paid GS a ton of money for their display, and if they see this, they will pitch a hissy fit and pull their advertisement out of Gamestop, thereby freeing up an entire display for us to use how we see fit. Unless of course, Activision, or Ubisoft, or one of those companies that's almost as bad as EA swoops in and grabs the prime real estate. Here's hoping.

The fact that everyone of any sort of power lets the depth of their pockets dictate the depth of their integrity makes my stomach turn. If this comes comes out to be the truth, not only will I stop caring what Gamespot says about anything, I will never purchase another game published by Eidos again, and I beg anyone who reads this to do the same.

This topic has gotten my superhero fantasy all stirred up, but the only thing I can do towards the end of having justice served in this matter is post this blog, and draw attention to this repugnant story. Obviously, sneaking into the Eidos/Gamespot brass's homes Batman style and putting the fear of God/Allah/whatever into them is out of the question.

The gaming journalism community should not fear the publishers. If anything it should be the other way around. Maybe then they'd stop putting out so much rubbish.

Oh yeah, and Eidos?

Kane & Lynch is broken and horrid.

I know it, you know it, and now everyone who shops my store will know it. Thanks.