| Burek said: Makes sense. To avoid conflict of interest, gaming websites should advertise cosmetics, movie websites should advertise pet food, and fashion websites should in turn advertise toys. What baffles me is that people still find all reviews as either payola or clickbait if they disagree with them. Because, there still exists a great possibility that a game that you like just plain sucks, or that a game you dislike is actually really good. |
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You are over simplifying and twisting the argument to suit what is your interpretation of what is actually being said here rather than actually looking at what is being said. Horrible way to have a discussion.
Let's take the order, if you have the time to waste to filter through my post gistrory; you will find that I don't believe the game is worth $60, I haven't bought the game and I have openly said that RAD messed up. because I call out what I believe is a flawed review system all round, doesn't mean its cause they reviewed a game I like poorly. That's a preconception you are bringing into an argument that has nothing to do with that. Unless you can show me one place I said something that lends to that notion. If you are speaking generally, then you shouldn't address it to me.
And as for the ads? pls, don't be myopic. You trying to tell me that the only ads a site can show should be relayed to games cause they are a game site? Here's a suggestion, and I'm not even putting too much thought into it, say you are a games site, then rather than show ads for games, show ads for custom controllers, hard drives, head sets, gaming chairs, gaming monitors, TVs, phones, tablets, movies, comics, animations.... you know? things that people that buy games could also be interested in. See, that wasn't that hard.
But why don't they do that? cause the easiest place to get ad revenue is from the game publishers, cause those guys have the most to gain which in turn puts the sites in a position where they have the most to lose if relations between them and said companies fall through. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. I don't even believe we are having this argument, I would have thought the issues presented by such a model was painfully obvious. Ah well.... different strokes I guess.
And that is why you shouldn't blindly walk into conversations with preconceived notions. Do you even know what the term "conflict of interest" means? Pls, do me and yourself a favor, look it up, then if you can find out how game journalism or gaming sites as they are today doesn't fall firmly into that phrase, you can cone talk to me. I would love nothing more than to be wrong about all this.
