| Erik Aston said: BTW, I have to mention... When we start expecting this stuff and saying "that's just how it works," lowering our standards for journalism, it's the richest companies who win. Like in that Mercury News link (and in other discussions I have read), when people say good reviewers would keep the bag/raffle it to readers, and insult the journalists who made some noise and sent the bag back... That's stunning. When you hold the sites who make no bones about receiving bribes in higher regard than the ones who refuse to accept them, now it's YOU who are being bought and sold by major corporations, not just the reviewers, and you aren't even getting the goodie bag. How pathetic. |
Quoted for effin' truth.
Saying, "That's ok. I expect them to be corrupt." is like saying, "My girlfriend can go out and sleep with whoever she wants without telling me. I expect her to want to sleep around."
Some things in this life are worth fighting for and the privilege of not being lied to is one of them.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
