Gamer 2.0 editor Amadeo Plaza's note - December 1,2007:
"It should come as no surprise that just about every gaming forum on the internet is ablaze right now following the news of GameSpot's termination of long-time editor, Jeff Gerstmann. This article, however, is not an exposé or look into what really happened at GameSpot this week. Rather, consider this a look at the direction of gaming journalism, advertising, and how this all plays a role in the content you read."
Plaza claims he has background in journalism as well as advertising/marketing, which means he has a fair understanding of both sides of the fence. Here he reveals the changing dynamic between editorial and advertising in an industry that is becoming increasingly mainstream.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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As the title says, it's a solid read. It's going to be interesting to see how big and small sites are going to change. Clearly, small sites won't take over immediately, but they are there. Most of the sites are full of passion. Can't wait to see how things play out after it calms down a bit.
Yeah, I know he's right. And other sites will definately gain from this. Some of the reactions, though, are a bit extreme from what I've seen on the GS forums.
I'm starting to think he wasn't fired at all... The more I think about it, I think he and Gamespot severed their relationship and he's going to move on to something else or another site or mag altogether or maybe even another company inside the videogame market.
The more I think of it... I think this is a bunch of trumped up soap opera bull S*IT... along the lines of something Vince McMahon would do in "firing" one of his wrestlers. To get ratings... in Gamespots favor, hits and more notoriety. They're the most famous gaming website there is right now and all because of Jeff being "fired"
Yeah, whatever... I call Bull S*IT on this whole thing. Jeff got his send off. the one he agreed to. That's my take. They're reaping the rewards from this and laughing at all of us, I believe. No one is going to get fired for that review he did. no one. It was an honest, split down the middle review. The game isn't a 9 or a 10. It's not Mass Effect, Uncharted or R&C... Sorry. Jeff didn't get fired for this review. This is staged theatrics.
Fellow gamers, Gamer2.0 and the rest have it correct!!
http://www.petitiononline.c...
Tell everyone to stop buying DELL, its horrible there are much better products out there !!!
This effect us all, we must send them a message that lasts and have them tossed off our gamerankings for good!!!!!!!
I read a post on Destructoid today reporting on the Ziff Davis guys protesting Jeff's firing outside of the CNet offices. THey're CNet's competition and they're doing this. Somehow I think that the CNet heads may be beginning to think that firing him was a bad idea.