Darth Tigris said:
Scoobes said:
Darth Tigris said:
It was a throwaway comment in a LARGER point he was making and all we're doing is focusing on the throwaway comment. Sorry, but I think that's petty and unfair.
The reality is that bloggers and faux journalist make their living off of traffic grabbing, inflammatory headlines that generate strong emotional reactions in people. That's why we're talking about this instead of the point of the article from where this quote was taken. We're acting like a bunch of tools and blaming Kudo for it. People are even attacking him wearing sunglasses, even though he has a condition called photophobia that forces him to wear them.
Its not about defending Kudo. Its about defending his overall point. I won't pick apart you listing a bunch of multiplatform FPS games as big PC FPS's because that's missing the point of what you're saying. It annoys me when people do that because its like they're just LOOKING for something to take a shot at someone for. We should be better than that.
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Problem is his throwaway comment shouldn't have been made or should have been worded appropriately. With the state of gaming journalism and his position you'd think he'd know this.
Fact is, he made a small but stupid comment and gaming journalists picked it up and now we have threads like this one.
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Ah, so its HIS fault that gaming 'journalism' is reactionary and opportunistic and the readers of said 'journalism' respond in kind? REALLY???!!!
Eventually this is going to force them not to say anything honest to us. Everything will be a prepared statement that is scripted and hollow. And we will be worse off for it . . .
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It's his fault for not realising that gaming journalism is a joke and that he needs to be careful when representing his company. I've read alarmist "journalism" from game sites before with a lot less ammunition than he provided.
And yes, we will be worse off for it, but I doubt it'll ever come to that as all publicity is good publicity right? Either way, I really wish journalism in the industry would improve.
