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Sensors online. Weapons online. All systems nominal.   Member 80 Level 56.91 Mar 2006 
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Considering the lack of official statement, I dunno if Gerstmann was fired simply for this review, or if it was a culmination of things. I'm more inclined to believe the latter, at least for the time being.
And people pretending that reviews weren't based on moneyhats already is kind of amusing. Dirty, disgusting tactics? Sure. Unexpected? Fuck no. I absolutely HATED the guy's writing, though, and he wasn't nearly as funny or amusing as he thought he was. So I couldn't really care less personally. Not like GS was the greatest source for this shit anyway. Jam it back in, in the dark.  |
Sensors online. Weapons online. All systems nominal. Member 80 Level 56.91 Mar 2006
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What does games journalism have to do with free speech?
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Sensors online. Weapons online. All systems nominal. Member 80 Level 56.91 Mar 2006
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And for the love of Christ guys, no one here knows the exact reason. It could be more than just "the Kane and Lynch review". Cool your jets, assholes, and stop making up fake proof when all the info you've heard is 15th hand, good lord. For all you know he had it coming and this is the whole staw/camel's back thing. If it IS just because of Eidos here, than that's even dirtier than the current situation already is, but fucking come on. It's far more likely this isn't JUST related to this one isolated event. Most amazing jew boots
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Sensors online. Weapons online. All systems nominal. Member 80 Level 56.91 Mar 2006
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There could be a multitude of reasons for this, you're right. And I'm going to take all news related to this with half a bag of salt. Office busybodies are not the greatest source of news ever. I can't imagine they had a small meeting where they called in all of Jeff's closest co-workers and said "HEY GUYS THIS IS WHY HE WAS FIRED". There's that whole confidentiality thing that most businesses subscribe to. They might know more if they were told, but then again they might not. I don't know. I don't PRETEND to know (like some other people in this thread [not you Nall]), and I'm certainly not going to pass judgement on SHIT until more CONCRETE details surface.
Right now I can certainly agree with the catalyst theory. It certainly seems that way from the information we're given. You're gonna have to excuse me for being skeptical about assuming it's the sole or even primary reason behind this, though. How ya doing, buddy? |
Sensors online. Weapons online. All systems nominal. Member 80 Level 56.91 Mar 2006
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Yeah, because I'm sure they'll never find any other low-grade writers with some journalism or English degree who think reviewing games for a living would be fun, right?
Those jobs would get filled FAST. Who knows, maybe a change internally would boost the quality of their content. Maybe the average reader stands to benefit from this. One can only hope. I was speaking idiomatically.
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Sensors online. Weapons online. All systems nominal. Member 80 Level 56.91 Mar 2006
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Hey now, I editted out the word bullshit for a reason, friend.
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