I'm getting all fed up with everyone all the time trying to impose such accusations on CNet and GS for firing Jeff over an unfavorable review of a game in conjunction with shady business dealings with the company who made it. It is true that what happened is unraveling to the entire site and thee administrative processes of the community, but who are we to set such imposing charges against anyone? Is it our place at all, as forum users who only knows what goes on in something as relatively unprofessional as a gaming site, to even pretend we know what happened?

I don't think anyone would listen by now, but GS has never been one to emphasize business deals over their own opinions. I can think of quite a few other games that have been promoted heavily and specifically on this site, only to give it a low score, don't act like this is the first time. Hundreds of ads for games, some successful, some not, have constantly circulated throughout this site since the very beginning, and there has never been any definite sign of business manipulation on behalf of them. But unfortunately, it seems that humans by their very nature hate being left in their dark, especially over something as supposedly "earth changing" as this, and they often make up stories as to what the truth could really be, using "clues" they have little idea about other than their own often Hollywood movie verison of the world. And then this becomes the so-called "truth".

And in this case, here is another typical conspiracy theory: using circumstances that everyone involved in the creation of the story have little knowledge about for sure, and stereotypical assumptions as to what the inside workings of such a business really is. It isn't nearly as easy to cheat someone in such a way that it is being described, and even if this did happen, there's nothing stopping Jeff from suing in court over being dismissed unfairly, which I think is a good indication of what actually happened. So, especially since how the review score of Kane and Lynch is still going to remain the same, I don't think that GS or the publisher/developer of the game have anything to gain by dismissing anyone in such a matter. There's still a lot of different things that can go wrong in any business that can cause the most respectable employees to be fired. Much of it can be quite unexpected or kept behind closed doors, away from us.

I know that lies are often spread further and faster than truth, especially the vicious, shocking ones. Much of what has been said has only been posted on 3rd party sites, who mostly have little connection with GS's internal workings, and like many other sites, often post stories for the effect of only getting more attention and excitement out of circumstances that are often obscure or unknowable, ones that maybe are not exciting at all. But who's to know? Who can prove them wrong when there's no other probable answer? And thanks to their proposed dirty explanation, that becomes the truth for you, it's the only one available. You can't even believe GS's answer to what really happened now, as you've already marked them as part of a conspiracy theory, whether if it had any truth to it or not.

To continue to believe such a thing is only a testament to blind faith in something as ambiguous as the media, and your own overconfidence that you know what really goes on behind closed doors. I will not say that there doesn't exist any corruption in business, in fact there's still far more going on nowadays than is humanly acceptable to so many, but there's simply no substance to believe in something like this. It's ridiculuous stuff like this that causes wars, unfair executions, and blind stereotypes and misunderstandings to nearly every aspect in modern day culture.

Stop trying to pass Jeff off as the absolute tragic hero that I've never seen anyone on this site do before, and accept that maybe GS had a good reason for letting him go. But whatever you do, you shouldn't let your assumption in something no one here is really sure of at all affect how you view this site. The so spread story of what really happened to Jeff simply has little to no realistic value to it, and is no reason to boycott, leave, or bash on GS. I hope you would let your own senses decide what really happened.

!Viva la Revolucion!

The Nowhere Man...