Jim Sterling’s site under attack after Zelda: BotW review

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Mar1217 said:

sc94597 said:
If this is truly a DDOS attack and not his servers having trouble handling site traffic, then I think that is a stupid reaction. I am highly critical of his review because 1. It has misfacts and hyperbole, 2. He played the game for two days. 3. He obviously went into playing with the mindset of being contrary and intending to rile people rather than to give an impartial, unswayed opinion, hence he conjures misfacts which somebody who hasn't player the game won't realize are misfacts. Having said that, giving him more attention just feeds him. My response was to click the unsubscribe button on YouTube and move on.

Wait ? What ?! 

He tested the game a bit here and there between other games before the 9th, but he did not dedicate any real play time until about March 9th, rushing through the story between the 9th and the 11th (when he beat it.) Hence his complaint about shrines makes sense. He wanted to rush through the game so that he could give its predetermined review, but having to do shrines made that harder. 

 

As others have said, they saw all of this coming before the actual review -- he telegraphed it on twitter and in his podcast.