Malstrom: Game Industry tries to justify corruption

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rocketpig said:

He just tried his hardest to make Jeff Gerstmann look like an ass for no real reason, twisting his words and blowing it all out of proportion. Do you really need me to scrounge up old articles to show where he's done that sort of thing in the past?

Ask yourself this question: was it really necessary to try to make Gerstmann look bad and was it necessary to get his op-ed's point across? If it wasn't necessary, why'd he do it? More importantly, why does he seem to do it so often? This is the third or fourth Malstrom article I've read where I thought the same thing and I generally avoid the guy's writing nowadays.

No, but it was a lot more fun because of it!  Malstrom is trying to get people's attention and it absolutely works.  If he'd written a piece like "Oh, this is missing the point - I don't care if you had fun or not, you're still accepting lavish gifts and that's a conflict of interest." nobody would be posting it in forums.

Lately I've been getting sick of his negative attitude myself.  I prefer the Malstrom that was cocky about Nintendo's success in a way because he was doing something other than whinging.  That said, Malstrom has been in sales and he's definitely selling people on his writings with this over the top stuff.