I would argue we aren't served by them now. They are all about click bait articles. Had he said one or two sites specifically or even was thinking that when he said it sure. I'm thinking along the lines that the game makers are seeing the sites for what they have become and is wondering what the point of review copies and advertising on gaming media sites. Personally I'd love more of a separation.  

You don't think there is a big problem with the person who wrote the review of the order also being the guy who wrote this click bait tilted "article"? 

Really? Didnt know that.

Of course it is! Serve them up to the Industry on a silver platter, sure, but serve them nonetheless!

No.  I really shouldn't have to state this, but any for-profit business, is in it...for profit.  There is no righteous objective behind any of it, other than padding their wallets.  And folks who think the games media doesn't cut corners or half-ass their jobs as much, or worse than developers, haven't been paying attention.  

Yeah. If Sony is publishing a game, there's a fair chance that Santa Monica has a hand in it. They seem to specialize more in helping smaller studios bring their games up to snuff than in making their own games these days.

This guy should be fired. Whether he has any pull in his company or not, or even part of the development of The Order, to insinuate at all what he did is a major foul.

Imagine even one person in charge of IGN or any other gaming site out there seeing his tweets or this article and thinking "if we give some game a bad score we might lose that companies ad revenue in the future" he will go to his staff and say you better give all companies that we get ad revenue from at least a minimum of a 7, no matter what.

That is a horrible precedent and what many of use believe the gaming industry has been plagued with the last 5 years anyway.

To think someone is dumb enough to publicly post something even hinting at this is just beyond stupid and he deserves to get fired.

That's up to his employer, not the peanut gallery.

Well, yes, ostensibly. The media, at least in theory, is meant to be a vanguard of sorts. It's supposed to inform and protect the public. Has the video game industry failed this noble pursuit over the last two generations? Yes, time after time.

But to imply the answer is breaking off contact between game makers and game critics is a huge mistake. Without a watch dog, developers and publishers could sell lies to consumers unabated, planting positive stories with unscrupulous publications and outlets. Such a divorce would set a terrible precedent and would drag an already corrupt industry deeper into ignominy.

Yea and I woudl fire him if I were his employer.

Imagine any other business in the world where an employee came out and publicly basically blackmailed everyone.  The higher up on the totem pole he is the more aggregious his offence.  The lower on the totem pole he is the more dispensable he is.  Either way I would fire him.  It's completely unproffessional and unethical.  Sadly nothing new in this industry. 

Personally, from where I'm sitting, that's exactly what needs to happen.  A reality check to the games media, if you will.  Burn the entire thing down, and hopefully it'll eradicate the cancer.

That time has already come, and frankly, the games media is complicit in perpetuating, and in some cases, starting those lies in the first place.

There are alternatives to the 'traditional' games media, and some of them (Youtubers, for example) have larger followings than the traditional media.