Friday, November 30th 2007. Comthitnuong has just got home from setting up a school's Christmas Bazaar and is tired. He logs on to Gamespot and sees multiple blogs regarding people leaving, Jeff, and Eidos. After browsing the site for about an hour Comthitnuong then fully understands the situation and that Jeff Gertsman of Gamespot has been fired for his "negative tone" in his review of Kane and Lynch. Comthitnoung is shocked.

Imagine coming back to your hometown after a vacation and finding it in ruins. Right now, I am feeling confused of what to do, and outraged at what has happened. What CNET has done to Jeff was horrific and just sent GS's entire crediblity, not to mention its community down the drain. CNet sacraficed their integrity for money, which I think is horrifying for a company like this to do. I simply cannot support a company like that.

To put it short, I loved Jeff Gertsman. Him, Rich and Greg Kassavin were the Heart, Soul, and Brains of Gamespot. One of the things that kept me going back to Gamespot was the amout of personality that it had. From the News Editors to the Review Editors, I loved all of their personalities. The backbone of all of that is now gone. Of course there are still others like Alex, Ryan, Vinny, and many more, but they just didn't have the same presence and impact on the communuty than Jeff, Rich, and Greg did.

I have already cancelled my Total Access Subscription and I am contemplating a departure from the site altogether. However, it is harder than I thought to depart with my virtual home that has been so good to me for the past three years. Many others have left though. Even highly influential members like ffgothic have left the community for GameTrailers. I have browsed the forums over there and I can say that I don't like them at all. I don't want to go to IGN or 1up either because I find their reviews subpar.

I'm still thinking of what to do right now. If I am to leave indefinitely, I will be sure to recognize all my friends on this site who have made my Gamspot experience so great. If I don't, well, I still would like to do somthing rather than pull my TA membership to show my disgust with CNET and Eidos. I will probably confirm some of this stuff once we recieve some word from Jeff himself, if we ever do.

**** YOU CNET AND EIDOS!!! (wow...and I barely even cuss that much in real life...)

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Update Notes:

I want to keep this short. I bought a new mouse because my mouse right now is complete crap. I also made a CoD4 purchase. Without going on for too long, it is the best CoD game since the first. Finally, a CoD game that captures the moments and the scale that the first had. Anime wise, I finished School Rumble last week, and am now watching Mai-Hime. School Rumble was surprisingly really good, and Mai-Hime is well...boring. I hear it gets better though...

Just throwing it out there, I played DOAX2 for 4 hours...It wasn't fun. I'll leave it at that. I don't want to talk about that game anymore. Due to my voice which is still lost, I can't post the video:(...Ah well...I wouldn't be in the mood for it anyways.

I think that is it for now. Thanks for reading. I know you have probably read enough of these already. For now, lets hope that Jeff can come back in some way, shape or form.

UPDATE: For further clarification of my stance on this subject, I will post the response that I have given BulletSword and Flame.

If I leave the reason is not because Jeff got fired. In fact I would find it ridiculous as well to leave for that reason alone.Though having Jeff leave is certainly a blow, that alone would not make me leave. If I were to do this for Jeff, then I probably would have already done it when Rich left. All things come to an end. I understand that. I knew Jeff was going to leave eventually, Having him leave now or two years from now would not have made a difference.

It is the thought of supporting a review site owned by a company that lets money influence their actions to the point that they would fire their own employees (that have been there for 12 years!) that disgusts me, and makes me want to leave until further clarification is put out.