Yeah, I read your comment. I'm a Joe Schmoe no question, but fortunately for myself, and for many, that's all you need to be in this business to get started.
Many developers will take the time out to talk to you regardless of how popular you are, the only thing you need to become a game journalist is a URL and a need to get involved with the gaming community/industry. It's when people under prepare and don't fully care about what they're doing, just the end result (in this case traffic), that the integrity as a whole slips.
I have certainly been guilty of this in the past when I didn't respect this space as a community, but there are enough people around here I've seen/spoken to that have made me believe otherwise.
If you want you can ask for this article to be moved from my permalink to an N4G blog post, it doesn't make any difference to me if I get the hits, just whether or not people take the time to read it and understand that completely admitting any past transgressions with N4G, I'd like this site to return to what it was intended to be in the first place, a gaming news repository. Where the most important gaming news items are at the visible top and the opinion pieces are on some side page at the very least.
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