[QUOTE="GlassDominion"][QUOTE="TheFlush"][QUOTE="GlassDominion"] if he really was fired because of that review, it once again shows gamespot is paid for reviews and can be bias.
ratchet and clank
firing people after giving a real review, rather than what the developer wanted.
TheFlush
Gamespot is NOT paid for reviews, that's the whole point. There's an editorial crew and a sales crew in the gamespot corporation. The sales team is probably filled by Cnet's suit people since they took this site over. Those sales people make deals with publishers to get advertisements on the site. This isn't bad because it's probably the main source of money for gamespot. However, eidos wasn't probably very happy about Jeff's review and GS's sales team had to explain a lot. Since those sales people are only into money and marketing, they WANT the editiorial crew to be more positive about heavily advertised games. However the policy of gamespot's reviews does not match with that. To avoid such difficult situations in the future, CNet has fired jeff, to make a statement probably. That's why the review crew is mad as hell right now, they don't want to sell out their integrity. I wouldn't be surprised if they go on a collective strike. And that's probably why they fired Jeff this weekend and not when the review went online. The flood of reviews is over now that all the big games are on sale. So if they review crew is going to take actions now, it won't have a big impact.when a company will fire a dood because a 3rd party company thretens to pull the funds, gamespot was giving into the money. that just screams reliable right? no that just shows how weak gamespot is.
No that shows how unreliable the sales team is. I totally trust the review crew, I don't think they will ever conform to Cnets demands. I predict some acton from the review crew, massive resignment or a collective strike or something.its not cnet, eidos or w/e thretened to pull theri contract and lots of $$$ because of the review. in which jeff was fired.
gamespot the site disabbled the user reviews because they didnt want users pooring in bad reviews of the game as well.
gamespot has shown it gives into the dollars, and honestly i didnt trust the review team much to start with. the way the ratchet and clank review was handled this site is about money.
this site gets more hits when their review of ratchet and clank is a whole 2 points lower than the rest, thus making them more money. perhaps gamespot stacked it to give a guy who reviews nothing but sports games to review ratchet and clank? doesnt sound like its that guys kind of game.
fire jeff cause he showed some balls and reviewed kane and lynch the right way? yeap gamespot just wants money.
you attack me cause i have no faith in this site, when your just trying to force your opinion on me.
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