Bethesda Announced Anti-Consumer Review Policy

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pokoko said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:
Just want to point out that not every member of the media is unworthy of trust. The staff on this site work their butts off to inform consumers about games before they make an irreversible financial commitment.

Ultimately, it's up to each individual to decide whether to pre-order or buy games day one, but the fourth estate should play an important part of this equation. Bethesda cutting off the gaming press ahead of launch in no way is a good thing. It means less information, fewer opinions.

While it's certainly true that there are people in the gaming media who are doing their best, videos like the one posted above, where the youtuber resorts to the childish behavior of trying to discredit all the games Bethesda publishes, even with recent successes like Doom and Dishonored, is a good example of why gamers are so cynical about the gaming media in general.  If you dislike a policy, that's fine, attack that policy, but when you start in with videos like "they're just a C+ player now anyway" then it looks so freaking petty. 

Maybe I'm just biased.  I don't follow any of these "personalities" and when I see people make an Appeal to Authority by name-dropping a youtuber, it just seems so amazingly ridiculous to me.  I don't give them any more credence than any random forum member.

I appreciate that. YouTube is the Wild West. It's where journalistic integrity goes to die.

There are a lot of outlets out there who take their work seriously, though. I was a reporter before I became a game critic. I sat through three hour board of education meetings so readers wouldn't have to, but would still be informed about what people in power were doing. I carry that attitude with me in all my writing and analysis. This means something to me.