Again Eddie's articles on front "news" page of GameSpot.com. 2 different articles to tell the same story. Neither article was necessary when all of the PS4 Slim and Pro announcements could have (arguably) gone into a single article. Also; Eddie has pulled info from an outside source and written a meaningless article on GameSpot. Why not just post a link to the actual interview from the other source? Eddie added nothing to the conversation.

PS4 Pro Won't Feature a 4K Bur-Ray drive

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4-pro-wont-feature-a-4k-blu-ray-drive/1100-6443388/

Why PS4 Doesn't Have a 4K Blu-Ray player

www.gamespot.http://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-ps4-pro-doesnt-have-a-4k-blu-ray-player/1100-6443411/

@justinhaywald: i don't believe your team is putting much effort into fixing the issue. As you may have seen, I have created a similar thread that complains not only about the headlines but the content of the articles themselves.

GameSpot seems to be leaning toward the "social media"/trending topics method of attracting readers to the site in a bad way.

I'd be happier if there was a separation between the "Buzzfeed"/"Click-bait" and the real journalistic news GameSpot used to provide. But at this point I can't think of much of anything in the news section that is journalistic. It's all Buzzfeed.

I get it. There's slow times of the year. But does GameSpot have to have news every day? If so, your in big trouble for the long run because the only way to fill in the gaps is with bloat/fluff/buzzfeed/click-bait.

Misleading and bait-y headlines are just the start of issues I've had lately with the news section of this site. I'm really missing the staff that was let go over the past couple years (that I still follow on social media and other sites).

So there must have been a Call of Duty event or a bunch of press releases or something because now we have a news section filled with tiny articles about bits and pieces of the news. But it's all about Call of Duty. I don't understand GameSpot reasoning for putting out this type of coverage. Why not have a feature that sums up everything? A page like that can still be tweaked for trending through SOE.

http://i.imgur.com/kCZamYy.jpg

GameSpot has been on a continuous downward spiral when it comes to delivering quality gaming news.

There are several items that define the new section as low quality:

* Paraphrasing other sources and making it GameSpot news

Today (9/1/16) the post titled "With Neo Coming, PS4 Continues to "Push the Boundaries," Exec Says" (http://www.gamespot.com/articles/with-neo-coming-ps4-continues-to-push-the-boundari/1100-6443222/)

This was an article linked to another gaming news site and paraphrases quotes from that other source without adding any useful information to it and is essentially a wasted story that could have just been linked. To make things worse, the title speaks of "PS4 Neo" yet that console had nothing to do with the quotes pulled from the outside source.

* Extracting pieces of interviews and creating several controversial articles for each part of the discussion that was extracted.

An outside source interviewed Microsoft execs about Project Scorpio. GameSpot then posted several articles breaking down pieces of that interview and labeling each as its own news.

*Several articles about the same thing on same day.

Look no further than Pokemon Go to see how a popular topic takes over the entire news section with worthless "news" each highlighting a popular taking point.

And what about "New XBO backwards compatible games" and "All the backwards compatible games"? Every time the list is updated 2 articles show up in the news.

*Malicious and offensive ads

There's a dedicated sticky thread. This means the problem is big and reaching unacceptable. Many big sites are able to deliver ad content without infecting or offending their readers.

I could go on. I can find more examples of the lack of quality out into GameSpot news. "Click-bait" may be offensive to the GameSpot staff, but it's starting to accurately describe the news section of the site. When market trends seem to be the focus of every article and titles are ambiguous and misleading, it's by design to get clicks by using trends, thus the term "click-bait."

GameSpot used to provide quality game journalism. It seems the only quality to be found is in the video section of the site. That's a problem for people like me who can't watch videos and want to read news instead.

With all the paraphrasing and linking to other gaming sites doing actual journalism, it makes it look like GameSpot is no longer a source. It's a curator of gaming news (when it can be called news). And it's not a good curator. So if GameSpot isn't good at their own journalism and their bad at curating, then what's the point?

It's like CNET fired all the good news staff and now we have "Eddie" and all his BS so-called-news.

I've been a member for a long time and every week I get closer to giving up hope that GameSpot can stay relevant.

@lamprey263: as with most days, my first visit to GameSpot.com/news resulted in a potentioisly malicious ad that I was auto-redirected.

The screenshot is posted on imgur at the following link:

http://i.imgur.com/9yEbCKv.jpg

Whoops! I made the mistake of not reading the stickies! There is a thread for addressing this exact issue (thankfully). See that thread for more info.

Whoops! I should have read the sticky first :/

I'll be sure to screen grab the next round of badly behaving ads.

What is GameSpot's method for blocking these? Is GameSpot workin with the company whose ads are being used on the site to clean up their list of ads?

It seems like GameSpot chose an ad vendor who is servicing potential malicious and offensive ads. Maybe it would be advised to change to a more trustworthy advertising software.

For the past couple months GameSpot.com/news/ has been redirecting me to potentially malicious websites via the ads on the page. I don't believe Gamespot is intentionally doing this, but I have been directed to sites that use JavaScript:alert that triggers JavaScript when closed. I've been forwarded to sites with NSFW content.

GameSpot needs to get this under control. It's bad enough how the ads pop up and interrupt viewing. It's 1000x worse when those ads are redirecting away from the site and to malicious or offensive content.

Please address this asap.

E3 is going to break the commenting features of this site. I won't dare try to comment on my tablet. I'll give a PC a try.

To add to my previous comments; the LiveFyre comment system is probably a big culprit in the loading of ads and other asynchronous data calls being made after the page loads. It's a good bet that testing the site with LiveFyre disabled will result in a much better experience. You can try this simply by blocking LiveFyre.com.

In general, the asynchronous data calls could be better managed on the Gamespot website.

@SolidSnake35: there's a couple things going on here. First is how the pages load. Gamespot loads the main portion of the article on the first request. When the page data returns, it then begins sending out requests for ads, other side content, and the comments.

Comments are loaded from LiveFyre. A service utilized by Gamespot, but GS does not develop the features, they just pay for them.

The platform and browser you use to access the site decides what to do with your mouse cursor. Often times when pages load using AJAX (the way the do on Gamespot), the browser has to keep refreshing the view, so content moves around and text boxes get redrawn. This sometimes erases content, but most of the time it simply keeps taking focus away from the textbox the user keeps clicking on.

So every time a new ad loads, your browser is probably taking focus away from the comments textbox, which is why you can't enter comments until page is loaded.

Gamespot could do some tweaking to how the ads are loaded and the order in which content is loaded.

A lot of the blame can be out on LiveFyre, who has not done a very good job of providing a consistent, optimized social platform. I've submitted a post asking Gamespot to switch providers for the comment system. I've had more than enough of the problems it causes without consideration to what Gamespot is doing on their end.