mutantsushi on 05 September 2017
| Lauster said: Dean Takahashi is perhaps not a pro with a controller, but it is one of the best vg journalists in US, especially in the economics of video games. He doesn't claim to be a video game critic. |
Maybe his writing on "economics" i.e. business is good, that doesn't mean he should be covering games themselves.
Underlying issue is, status hierarchies mean certain people have certain positions and priviledges,
and because this guy has ingratiated himself with that hierarchy (perhaps legitimately by his business analysis),
he reaps the fruit of that by editors, etc, feeling indebted to him to give him work that he doesn't necessarily qualify for.
