As news continues to spread across the internet regarding the alleged scandalous nature of Jeff Gerstmann's firing from his long time position as a GameSpot critic, the entire gaming community has continued to vigorously condemn GameSpot and Eidos over the situation. Members have been quick to express apparent shock and outrage in GameSpot's forums and in Eidos' forums. (Eidos has been quick to close any threads regarding Jeff Gurstmann in their forums.) In addition, a surge of 1.0 User Reviews with angry notes to Eidos and CNET in the Kane and Lynch profiles in Gamespot. This also spilling out into other gaming sites such as IGN's Kane and Lynch user review section. Hundreds of GameSpot members also have sent hundreds of angry emails to GameSpot and Eidos as well as cancelling member subscriptions to GameSpot.
For years, the integrity of GameSpot's reviews and practices of advertising publishers have continued to come under suspicion of bias and manipulation. A predicament that has recently exploded and exposed to the gaming community by this incident.
Although Gamespot and publisher Eidos have not yet made public statements over what led to the firing of Gamespot's Editorial Director Jeff Gerstmann, the accusation of publisher pressure is exploding all over the companies' forums. Gamespot currently has numerous threads on the incident, with one thread in particular having thousands of posts. Eidos has taken a different approach, locking down all threads on their site after apparently purging derogatory posts from thousands of angry gamers reacting to the rumor yesterday night.
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Gamespot must found out something to boot his rear.
If this IS the real reason he was fired, then that's really pathetic on GameSpot's part.
Gamespot like guticb stated deserves this controversy, maybe more intense investigation would happen on the site it self.
Im telling you alot of these so called professional reviewers on there will get kicked out at one point.
There have been many people that lost there job, Career's, life sucks in that aspect and thats the real world. My dad lost his job 3 times if not 4 and he's lucky to have a job. So please its not like he'll never work again just not with gamespot.
But yeah, I doubt he'll have much trouble finding another site to work for. If anything, this whole debacle has really gotten his name out there, being that most fans are on his side now.
Than do you do realize that Professional reviews are supposed to review and rate the game with unbiased look, and Explain in writing why it got rated as such. You know the good about the game and the bad, fact is the bad part has never been correct ever on IGN or gamespot. Its not the Score i have a problem with is why, in his own professional review on the game, why it got the scores it did. And like i stated before and Dez, and guticb they never do that.
Here's an example PS3 version of Ghost Recon got 8.5 while the 360 version got 8.7. Thats ok the problem with that was they stated because new people who own a PS3 won't understand the game story line, since its a last gen game series. You cannot rate games based off that, its ridiculous.
The next one was something like lack of Multi-player or something, again not a good reason to rate the game which was technically the Superior Version 2 points down from the 360. That game was the superior version and has been claim by the Developers as such yet they get this biased reviews, which gave the 360 higher score.
Thats the whole problem which you didn't read my comment in the thread in lounging which i stated 3 times. Its not the number thats the problem its the so called professional Review that gets lost in the sauce. No where in there is supposed to be your opinion. Not only that those reviewers rush playing the game to meet a dead-line you can't do that with games, that will lead to bad scores which the PS3 has gotten plenty of those.
1UP
Da GameBoyz
Extreme Gamer
Game Informer
Game Over Online
GameAlmighty
GamePro
GamingExcellence
NZGamer
Pelit
And that's not including IGN and GameSpot. But hey, I guess they're all just dirty Microsoft-loyalists, right?
I'm going to go ahead and restate this, though: this has NOTHING to do with Jeff Gerstmann being fired. GRAW2 isn't even reviewed by him. You are bringing up a subject which is completely separate from this one. I'm not even going to ask how it relates to him, because it is clear to me that you are simply using this event to launch off your conspiracy theories about video game review sites conspiring against the PS3.
Although I will agree that game reviews probably are mostly all rushed, trying to meet a deadline. So all professional reviews, to an extent, need to be read with a pinch of salt.
It has to do with the fact justice is being served and now Gamespot are deserving this controversy they just made, This has nothing to do with Eidos just cause they threaten to take out there ads means very little in jeff's job. He did something stupid and paid for it. And its not just Ghost recon Please PM guticb or DEZVOUS and they will tell you how they always don't explain why they rate them badly and they do it for the wrong reasons. Im done replying you obviously are missing the point.
Wow though but because of these negative reviews loads of people canceled there accounts. A bit extreme isn't that =/
That aside, I am quite pleased to see such a negative reaction from the general gaming population. I hope that GS/CNET regret their actions.
on a more serious note , if they did fire him for that moronic and pathetic excuse then they get what they deserve , still you cant help but laugh at all this
The very same that gets OUTRAGED by their favorite game not being on some top 100 list.
btw gamespot is fags.
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