| outlawauron said: I'd say we have a larger problem with reviewers giving popular games intentionally low scores to drive traffic to their article. You see some lesser known group give a GOTY candidate a 4 or a 5 and create a big fuss. It's one of the things that Jim Sterling is practically employed to do. Runa is pretty acting the same way (loud and pompous) with his FF13 article. And about the polarizing fanbase, that's true of many series and certainly not just of FF13. Just 3 or 4 years ago, you'd have people say that FFXII was an abomination of the series, Square is too far gone, etc. etc. |
Yes this is true, but what I was trying to get at, is that he wouldn't have mentioned "flamebait" unless the fanbase wasn't as "hardcore" (I guess that would be the word). I mean, he didn't like the game, he stated he wanted to write an article explaining the games issues, more than "Linear game = bad" which is what most journalists are saying. He wanted to break the game down and discuss why certain gameplay mechanics, and story mechanics were poorly implemented. But, that's just what I feel, I don't think he should have been banned for mentioning "flamebait" in this context cause anyone making an article discussing Final Fantasy problems will lead to flaming regardless.
