TheRealMafoo said:
I think there are two main problems with your post. One is the use of blackmail. That's an ultra extreme (and inaccurate) view of what is happening. You can release a review under the same conditions as you always could. They just asked that particular information about the game not be discussed. This is done all the time. The difference here is the kind of information held back is unusual. I agree his actions are questionable. But "capitalist blackmail" is extreme. Second, and the most important one, is why did you post it at all? It contributes nothing to the conversion, and was obviously a dig in a thread for MGS fans posted in the Sony forum, by a MS fanboy with the sole intent to incite anger and contempt. That's the part that follows your form, and got you banded in the past. |
1. Oh but it IS blackmail. Any reviewers that got an early copy of the game were made to sign a contract indicating they would not mention cutscene length or install times/size PRIOR to the game's release. Given sites and magazines receive traffic (and therefore revenue) based on the punctuality of their reports and reviews, Konami forced the gaming media to choose between its integrity and its profits.
2. My post was a satirical jab at the aforementioned blackmailing tactics adopted by Konami, it is relevant to any MGS4 review discussion. On the other hand, your first post in this thread was an unjustified, unsourced attack on two posters that had said and done nothing to you. So I ask you, whos contribution was more relevant?
P.S. It was established in a large thread (from which you apparently were absent) that there is significant sceptisism amongst the non-Sony fan (and indeed much of the Sony fan) population of this site that my so called fanboyism is an actual reality rather than social construction.
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