Gamespot editor fired over bad review of Eidos game

[Animegamer]

http://kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/gamespot-ed...view-328244.php

According to the source, Gerstmann was fired "on the spot" due to advertiser pressure for his review of Eidos' Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. A visit to Gamespot shows that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game has taken over the site very prominently, with backgrounds and multiple banner ads all pitching Kane & Lynch. Allegedly, publisher Eidos "took issue with the review and threatened to pull its ad campaign."

so much for honest reviews... it looks like this poor guy was fired for doing his job honestly

[zomfgbie]

money > free speech

[psi43]

read the full article, he admitted that he barely played the game before he reviewed it.

[rtil]

probably because it sucked so bad. there have been games that i've played that were extremely difficult/impossible because they sucked. fact is, the guy wrote a bad review and gamespot/CNET got upset because they were making a ton of ad revenue off the game and wanted to pamper the developers. so, they picked the revenue over the expendable reviewer. bad choice in the short run because you get a lot of protesters canceling their paid subscriptions playing to the tune of "fight the man", but nobody will probably remember in a year so they'll be fine later when the next batch of 12 year olds want to sign up with their mom's credit card.

the funniest part about all of this is that the a lot of the people that don't care/think the guy deserved to be fired often mention that he gave that wii Zelda game an 8.8/10, as if that is some kind of crime against humanity. honestly, who gives a shit? same goes to CNET.

[mishkamash]

it's funny how people react to each others opinions when it comes to game reviews (which is a written report of their OWN opinion)

[W.A.C.]

Despite the fact that this is pretty old news, it's a pretty bad situation for reviewers. Some 1UP.com employees even protested in front of GameSpot HQ. [LINK] GameSpot has their own explanation on the situation but it's still rather suspicious. [LINK] Also, the game developers of Kane & Lynch actually lied about the reviews they got for their game on their website. [LINK] [LINK]

[zomfgbie]

[LINK][LINK]

[psi43]

[ZELDA] [rtil]

[adamant]

[W.A.C.]

o_O

[Nadroj0711]

[Psi43]

[psi43]

lmfao 7*

[adamant]

hey hey 5* did the voice acting

[psi43]

lmfao I thought 7 did it cause he posted it and stuff sorry );