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Total Biscuit - Why you shouldn't be excited - A look at games media's role in hype. Thanks Ant via HARDOCP.
TotalBiscuit brings you a discussion video on the games media's involvement in hype campaigns for unreleased or in-development titles and the negative impact it has on the industry.Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Videogames Are For Everybody. Thanks nin.
There has been criticism, too, which has resulted in gamers claiming that we hate them. We don’t hate gamers. We are gamers. Numerous (often offensive and widely incoherent) attempts to provoke controversy and scandal about the relationship between game developers and the games press have resulted in some people saying that RPS should be destroyed. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we disagree with that proposition, and we’ll explain why we disagree in this article.
William Usher wrote on Sep 8, 2014, 14:59:Beamer wrote on Sep 8, 2014, 14:38:
Fairly certain that's fewer words than you've written here and lacking the call to arms.
Are you afraid of your own abilities to continue doing your job if you posted the same kinds of thing there that you do here?
Aha, of course. I may represent CB but I'm not CB (if that makes sense).
So my representation there has to be... diplomatic.
If it were up to me? Oh I would have an article up every single day actually reporting every single thing that transpires in the event (from both sides of the fence).
But that would put CB in the absolute center of the controversy and I don't think the higher-ups really want that.
The more controversial stuff goes over at OAG because if anyone has a problem with anything I write there then they have to deal directly with me. No worries about anyone going over my head.
I just hope the momentum of GG stays until a news outlet can get a hold of it and report it to a broad audience (so long as it's not twisted to just represent the agenda of the extremists).
How do you not realize that, with all of your war analogies, you're an extremist? One of the most extreme.
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