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You can’t give a bad review. YOUR FIRED!!!!!
Posted under Games, Mr B4, Review, Rumor Control, Tech News by Mr B4 
I am not sure if all of you have heard this story yet, but I am sure some of you have, so I well tell you anyway.
As some of you may know, an editor at Gamespot by the name of Jeff Gerstmann was recently fired from the company, suppossedly because of a negative review he gave of the game “Kane & Lynch: Dead Men” by Eidos. The review was posted on Nov. 13th, 2007, and has just recently been pulled from the site. Apparently Gerstmann called it an “ugly game not worth a purchase”, and gave it a score of 6 out of 10. The advertising spread was also pulled for the game just hours after Gerstmann was fired.
Now there have been a number of excuses as to why he was fired. Some say that it was just a cause of bad timing, and that Gamespot was already unhappy with him as a reviewer, saying that his Kane & Lynch review just pushed the management over the edge and was the reason why they fired him. There is also talk as to the amount of pressure there is to appease game makers, and the amount of money they spent advertising by inflating scores so that sales will go up, which in return makes alot of money for their company. The guess would be that Gerstmann gave his honest opinion about the game instead of doing what he was told to do, and was fired because he did not make money for the game developers and his company.
Whatever the reason is, I do not see how a reviewer could get fired based on a review like this. I took a look at the video, and the only thing Gerstmann was doing, in my opinion, was giving an honest review about a game in which he thought sucked the big one. So if you pull someone from a site simply because he is telling people not to buy a game your advertising, then the site itself should simply not review anymore games if they do not want somebody to give their honest opinions about them.
Anyways, I have blabbed on too much as it is, take a look at the review, and judge for yourselves:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FuJ81sDR2o[/youtube]
Until next time games, this is B4 signing off
Take Care,
B4
Link to Story: http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/view.php?id=3466
It all makes sense now…
Didn’t Carpal disappear right after he posted his scathing review of Kane and Lynch? Damn you, Eidos!
I want my Carpal back, you motherlovers.
Scary. It’s something thats been whispered about for a while now…Game sites being paid off for good reviews. And now this guy gets fired when a company pulls a ad campain over a bad one. I’m suprised there isn’t more being said over this. I think it’s a bad sign for the industry.
Hopefully a lot of people is taking part of the “Black Monday” movement, as in Blackout Monday: virtual boycott targetting GameSpot, CNET sites.
Google it, it’s amazing, and encouraging, how much support the community is showing.
Good luck to Jeff though, he was indeed one of the reasons I tune up to the On the Spot show every thursday.
This is why you all need to rally and support “REAL” indie podcasts and sites. This isn’t just happening on the mainstream; MS has been giving certain people credibility through (MVP accolades, Press Passes, Press for their site, and trips to press events) all this while the sites that accept all those perks try to pass off to the public that they are NON bias.
This is total Bullshit. This is why gamers should support fair and uncompromised news. If you want to hear the latest on who Godfree played ROCK BAND with… then feel free to visit his site. But if you want true honest game news, you might want to look past sites that do nothing but praise for the sake of reward!
And thats why you guys are so awesome, you always give honest reviews and are not being paid to give reviews (at least I think..)
Where did you go Mr Carpael Tunnel??? This is why you need to be involved! You’re gone off my friends list? No new podcasts in 3 weeks now? WTF is going on? I want to start a movement to bring Carps back!!!! Y’all with Me??? Get at me on Live!
Great!!! I can’t spell!!!
Yeah im with ya DJ..
Comm’on Carpal we need to know, should we buy Kane & lynch?
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