Man, things are not looking good for writers working on all triple-A gaming sites. Yesterday, Eurogamer posted Rob Florence’s opinion piece about Geoff Keighley, video game journalism, Doritos and Mountain Dew. Naturally, this topic got hot immediately and a lot of people accused Robert for his article. What followed then, though, surprised most of us, as Eurogamer decided to amend Robert’s article.
Unfortunately, we don’t have the original piece of Robert, so we can’t really see what has been changed. Robert expressed his disappointment on his Twitter account as some folks called him a “piece of shit“, an “arrogant troll” and that he will have to be wary of “enemies” if he attends any games PR events. Wow, so much hate for a simple opinion piece.
Robert then revealed that ‘the mechanics of PR are truly insidious‘ and that he was ‘utterly staggered by today’s events‘. A lot of people wondered what Robert was talking about and in a shocking turn of events, the writer unveiled – a couple of hours ago – that Eurogamer has amended his opinion piece.
Robert then stated that he will be no longer doing the columns for Eurogamer due to this and that Eurogamer was not to be blamed of. Robert admitted that the threat of legal action brought unbelievable pressure to the Eurogamer team and that he was clear on who the bad guys were in this whole thing. In other words, Robert blamed the PR people and two specific games journalists that were removed from his article… or that’s what we get from all those encrypted messages.
You can read Florence’s original article here (thanks to our reader Sabin Figaro) and his amended article here.
I’m not sure why the hell he’s decided to drop from EG for this.. it was just an opinion piece, all journalists do them, this whole legal threat issue is pathetic. Truth hurts, I guess.
It wasn’t, it was the original article including the comments Rab made that had to be removed due to libel claims. Now Microsoft has also removed the cached copy from Bing >_>
ok i read it.
the article is just a complaint about the trends “games” journalist do.
though still..it’s not professional that he called out those people and attacked them.
but what do I care?
if it’s a weekly show that talks about behaviours of journalist, therefore it would make sense for him doing this.
though if it’s an outburst article to complain about something, then it’s not right.
And Geoff sitting next to Halo+Doritos+Mountain Drew are based on advert, sponorship
Gregg Whitman
This is absolutely true. Big gaming sites “journalists” (the faces) are nothing more than advertisements.
There is no truth on the bigger gaming sites, especially GT for PC. All their “Best of PC” videos are console ports, not because they are better games but because those games have larger markets and will pull in more people to keep on clicking. These game sites rely on games being good, it keeps people coming back for more news.
If game hype is crushed by a bad review they lose the easy clicks because people will no longer be interested. People don’t want to be disappointed by a game and if they are, they stop coming back to the site. Sooo, they make their own news hyping and re-hyping even games that are sub-par, same ol’ same ol’, reskins.
It’s all a bunch of advertising to make cash. Cash is good, keeps sites running. When gamers grow up though, they will notice that gaming sites like GT and IGN are just hype machines and have nothing sustentative in them.
In closing. I really have no problem with them doing this (putting gaming advertising all in one spot is a good idea), just wish they were more upfront about it instead of calling themselves journalists when they are in essence representatives of gaming companies or salesmen and saleswomen. But, I guess it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that.
e.i. I get exclusive privileges to test a product then I get paid to positively talk and show off that product to others. Is that not a sales representative?
guest007
Geoff Keighley is a games journalist???? LOOOOL!!!
dafaq is this!?
a top gaming site in UK made an article about another top gaming site’s work.
isn’t that childish? that is so immature
i expect small sites to make this kind of things.
Its like IGN making trash articles about Gamespot, not professional.
also Eurogamer were threatened, so why shouldn’t they remove the unprofessional article?
that kind of article belongs to small gaming sites that point their news on N4G
The grammar and composition of this article is so poor, I had to stop reading. I understand that anyone can write anything on the internet, but shouldn’t someone writing for a site that attempts to be a legitimate journalistic source, be able to compose proper English?
“this topic got hot immediately and a lot of people accused Robert for his article” – Accused him of what?
“What followed then, though, surprised most of us…” – What is the point of the though here? ‘What followed then surprised most of us,’. Though means despite something, something else.
“Unfortunately, we don’t have the original piece of Robert” – Piece of Robert? Was Robert exploded after he wrote his article and scattered all over Europe?
I can understand that this is not the New York Times, and you don’t have a robust editorial staff to review articles, but this is really laughable.
violents
I agree most internet journalism is full of grammatical and spelling errrors. I’m not trying to say I’m perfect but I don’t have a college education and I know how to write and spell correctly. However his point is vaid in my opinion and the fact that it had to be changed because the other “journalists” he was using as examples of unprofessional conduct and frankly look to be conflicts of interest make the point he was trying to make that much more valid.
violents
the fact that industry people complained so much that he was forced to change the article just proves the point he was trying to make in my eyes.
DarthDiggler
No one thought to grab a screen shot of the article in the Cache before MS blew it out of Bing for Jeff?
Great investigative journalist! 🙂
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