| maverick40 said: Your post has zero proof. Here is what I found: The issue, Gerstmann claimed in a streaming interview, was that a new management team inexperienced in dealing with editorial groups, had come to power at Gamespot and overreacted to what Gerstmann describes as "publisher push-back." According to his recollection, Eidos threatened to pull ad revenue from Gamespot as a result of his review, and though this kind of thing is relatively common in games journalism, the nascent management team panicked and decided that Gerstmann was unreliable. "They felt they couldn't trust me in the role," Gerstmann said. So nothing about the reviewer receiving money. It was about ad revenue for the site as a whole. I rest my case. |
Hmm....That's new. In my defense, there were a lot of people that said Gamespot got payed to give it a good score when it happened.
But isn't threatening to stop advertising, similar to paying them off?
A video game website shouldn't give in to any publishers demands, especially when the game is crap. The poor bastard got fired because the pubilsher didn't like the score he gave their game. That proves that there is corruption.
