I'm not leaving... c'mon, if you leave, you are just worsening the situation...jjr10

If there was a better site to go to I would leave. I feel bad about what happened to Jeff but for what I use it for this site is still the best and I have never been one for boycotts.

What happened doesn't change anything for me. I will always have my suspicions as long as any site is getting advertisement money from developers whose games are being reviewed. It's something I can live with and it doesn't change the fact that Gamespot offers a good site and gives good game coverage. If they tell me information about a game I can figure out whether or I it could be something I would enjoy regardless of how positive or negative they are about the gameplay mechanics or what score they put on it.

I have posted a lot of negative comments about how the industry works in general but I'm just as annoyed at people who buy into the hype so easily as those producing the hype. I will be staying a Gamespot for sure and the way I approach their reviews has not changed.

I dont get it? Why are the untrustworthy now? Because Jeff used inappropriate language in a poor tone and got fired?

If you paid a company to put ads on the site, and under the ad it said "DONT BUY THIS GAME IT SUCKS AND IS UGLY AS HELL, I WOULDNT EVEN BOTHER PLAYING IT FOR FREE, WASTE OF TIME!" Wouldn't you want that person fired. I mean just look at the tone he used in the review, it was just a bash fest, it was like watchinga fanboy or something.dipper145

I might want them fired if I were the developer but the idea that the developers can actually do this is scary. If it was an independent decision by gamespot there would be no problem but the developers should have no say about what reviewers write about their products. The entire point of a review is to tell a consumer your opinion on a product, not to keep the developers who advertise on your site happy. Or that's how it should be, I'm well aware it currently isn't. Reviews should be more then a second layer of advertisement for those who can afford it.

Nope, everything that is gamespot has been compromised. We can no longer trust reviews, GOTYs, or anything else where someone has something to gain.Nonam3gamer

True and it's always been this way. All game sites get money from advertising the games they review and I don't see how anyone could argue that this isn't a conflict of interest. As far as I'm concerned they are all part of the big marketing machine that's sole purpose is to hype and sell the games with the biggest advertisment budgets. In the end it doesn't matter too much because even the most biased review can be used to figure out if the game is something you would enjoy as long as you know what your looking for and don't buy into hype too easily. That said, i bought Halo 3 so I can't really talk :(

These are the games that really truly deserve the GOTY this year:

Mario Galaxy (wining it), Bioshock, Orange Box, Call of Duty 4, God of War II, and World in Conflict.

Anything else not in this list is an insta-flop, they failed.

Sonicplys

I disagree because I did not find even one of the games you listed appealing, so saying everything else flopped is completely wrong from my point of view. Granted I only played Bioshock, GoW 2 and Orange Box because the others are not the type of games I'm interested in. These three were disappointing for me but realistically Bioshock was the only one I had high hopes for because I enjoyed System Shock 2 while HL2 and GoW were not exactly two of my favorite games. This of course is just my opinion and I would like to hear which one of these games you thought was the best and why rather then a list of games that were well received by the Gamespot and other sites.