Sir Xsarus wrote:
This whole ethics in gaming journalism bit. wtf? What is gaming journalism? Game reviews? Who gives a ****? I assume all reviewers are basically paid off. Are you telling me they aren't always?
Edited, Oct 14th 2014 5:15pm by Xsarus
I am a sad panda, because this is considered a given. Zero punctuation seems even handed in distributing hate.
But you are, naturally, correct. Game reviews have little to do with journalism. Maybe they should. But they don't.
Come to think of it... how did restaurants manage to keep non-professional reviewers from ruining reputations of established restaurants? Didn't hotels in NY start suing individual yelp posters?
Maybe I am asking for too much, but if all I am getting is advertising, maybe I should:
a) know it is advertising
b) have some basic rules about what cannot be done ( blatant lies )
c) get all the info about the included drms and whether the game is mostly multiplayer
What I am getting at is that we kinda let it happen. Few industries could have gotten away with the **** gaming industry does on a regular basis.