spemanig said:
I mean, with all of the respect in the world to Colin, most people have games they know so well that they can write guides about them. I can write a fully detailed guide about pretty much every Pokémon game, for example. That doesn't make him knowledgeable with regards to games in general. It just makes him knowledgeable with regards to very specific games that he loves. He was just proactive about writing guides for the ones he likes. And the PS4/XBO thing has been obvious for years. He didn't present anything new or insightful, though there is merit to presenting known and established information to a new audience. After all, that's essentially all that teaching is. |
As a writer yourself, this comes off as a bit... petty. Sure anyone can write guides, but can you write guides so well that it convinces someone to seek you out give you a lucrative and highly sought after job at the biggest video game news site on the planet? Probably not. I know I can't.
Thousands of people genuinely respect his opinion to a point where they're willing to donate their own money to support him personally because they want to continue to hear what he has to say. Surely you have to respect that and recognize that perhaps you're not seeing the bigger picture? No one is saying his opinion is more valuable than others or everything he says can be taken as gospel, but he has a point of view that others are willing to pay to hear. You can't deny that.
