Comments on: Konami wants you to just shut up about it http://stupidgamer.com/2008/06/02/konami-wants-you-to-just-shut-up-about-it/ Videogames and related rants Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:51:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: DirtyData http://stupidgamer.com/2008/06/02/konami-wants-you-to-just-shut-up-about-it/#comment-13124 DirtyData Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:03:54 +0000 http://stupidgamer.com/?p=770#comment-13124 Several things: I have a hard time calling video game journalism, journalism. I don't mean this with any disrespect but the majority of vg journalism market is controlled by these publishers. It takes the people that put the money in making the game to reach out the video game media outlets (big or small). Small reviewers can contact these companies but they have no say in the information they get (they are just served whatever the company has on the menu). Example: They are putting your website in a hard place right here in this article. You can't name the game or publisher who requested the 8.0 because if you were, that might blacklist the website from getting any interviews/exclusive reviews. It isn't your fault; it is the fault of the companies. They have power over you and there is nothing you can do about it. -DirtyData Several things:

I have a hard time calling video game journalism, journalism. I don’t mean this with any disrespect but the majority of vg journalism market is controlled by these publishers. It takes the people that put the money in making the game to reach out the video game media outlets (big or small). Small reviewers can contact these companies but they have no say in the information they get (they are just served whatever the company has on the menu).

Example: They are putting your website in a hard place right here in this article. You can’t name the game or publisher who requested the 8.0 because if you were, that might blacklist the website from getting any interviews/exclusive reviews. It isn’t your fault; it is the fault of the companies. They have power over you and there is nothing you can do about it.

-DirtyData

]]> By: Weston http://stupidgamer.com/2008/06/02/konami-wants-you-to-just-shut-up-about-it/#comment-13024 Weston Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:44:34 +0000 http://stupidgamer.com/?p=770#comment-13024 Hopefully as more and more of this stuff gets exposed, publishers will have to let their products be judged on their merits rather than a predetermined list of dos and don'ts from the PR department. Hopefully as more and more of this stuff gets exposed, publishers will have to let their products be judged on their merits rather than a predetermined list of dos and don’ts from the PR department.

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