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Gamespot Boycotts Get Nasty

Who says the average Joe is powerless against "the man"?

From the article: "And now, a cry that could end up hurting Gamespot even more than any of the above. A boycott is being organized, a very, VERY creative boycott."

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snoop_dizzle - 769 days 17 hours ago

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gamespot might have a little issue on their hands. i have heard a pretty good amount of people saying they are canceling their accounts.

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Bonsai1214 - 769 days 17 hours ago

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if people don't visit their website, advertisers won't spend money on it. its the best way people can damage GS at the moment.

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Gamespot-equals-EGM - 769 days 17 hours ago

1.2 - LMAO

Wow, geek power. Um...its not going to work. How long is this 'boycott' going to last? 2-3 weeks?

IMO, Gamers aren't disciplined enough to boycott advertisers for longer than 2-3 weeks. There has never been a documented case of it happening before (unless someone can give me proof that I'm wrong) and I don't think it will happen here.

Nice try but this is America. Capitalism rules (and don't give me that freedom of speech crap because it doesn't apply when a person, like Jeff Gerstmann, is a member of a private corporation writing on a private website).

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skagrerrrr - 769 days 16 hours ago

1.3 - One word for gamespot -

Karma

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Gamespot-equals-EGM - 769 days 16 hours ago

1.4 - No chance of succeeding

Just casually glancing over Gamespot's website, these geeks are actually trying to boycott these corporations?

-Dell
-Best Buy
-Mountain Dew
-Toshiba

OMG, they have almost no chance at suceeding (maybe with the exception of Mountain Dew). Dell and Best Buy are going to see the normal increase in holiday sales regardless of whether this 'boycott' is implemented or not. Good luck geeks.

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snoop_dizzle - 769 days 16 hours ago

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yeah boycotting those other companies isn't going to do much considering they appeal not only to gamers but other people as well, but gamespot might be screwed. Even if they try to reinvent themselves.

The thing is now that gamespot has now been targeted the enemy, gamers might never trust them again. One thing gamers do well(fanboys mostly) is hold grudges.

Also this seems to be an extremely big event in the videogame industry.

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waltercross - 769 days 16 hours ago

1.6 - hmmm...

Mountain dew is owned by pepsi co., so if any of these people/geeks drink pepsi or any pepsi product, then they'll be the one suffering.

People are taking this way out of porportion, all the advertisers on the GS webpage has many more sources, GS is just a tiny itty bitty fraction.

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ps3freak18 - 769 days 6 hours ago

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they are not trying to go after those big companies they are just trying to get them to stop advertising on gamespot.. they may succeed in that sense.

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waltercross - 769 days ago

1.8 - They wont stop though...

Do they really think the Advitisers care?, they couldn't care Less about some group that is disappointed at GS, as some people said, they should take all this energy and use it for a much better cause for all of us.

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NEO_X - 768 days 18 hours ago

1.9 - Yeah and the sad part is

I bet he wasn't even fired for that reason but with the way they are acting and not giving anyone a straight answer it won't be long before they are doomed.
Digging a big hole and then engraving the letters on your own tombstone sure seems dumb to me

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Charlie2688 - 769 days 17 hours ago

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LOL! talking about team work!

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/...
http://www.gamespot.com/xbo...
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3...

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BLuKhaos - 769 days 14 hours ago

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haha I just noticed that you cant submit a review for the game,hmm I wonder why.. lol.

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xionpunk - 769 days 9 hours ago

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See? All it takes is a common enemy (or a giant crowd of angry peeps) to unite people. lol.

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oneDMAC - 769 days 5 hours ago

2.3 - I thought this one was funny

"Kingfire11
"Boring"
I'd rather have sex with my dog"

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solar - 769 days 4 hours ago

2.4 - @2.3

lmao good find. depends on what kinda dog im sure :P

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TruthbeTold - 769 days 17 hours ago

3 - If only...

If only people would get this fired up about the real issues affecting the world right now and get involved similarly, things would be alot better. But no... Only a subject involving entertainment sets people off...

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killer_trap - 769 days 15 hours ago

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that was poetic.

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DrPirate - 769 days 17 hours ago

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Down with the Demon.

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cmrbe - 769 days 17 hours ago

5 - This is what happens

To a reviewer that is not resonable with their scores.

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TheHater - 769 days 17 hours ago

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I have been boycotting this website for almost two years now. So I am up for anything against this website

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The_Engineer - 769 days 14 hours ago

7.1 - lol

gamespot and meta are both owned by the same company, good luck geek.

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pizzavideogames - 769 days 17 hours ago

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I used to visit Gamespot every day. I've only visited once since the news broke and that was to look for the video review(which was pulled).

I haven't gone back since and I don't want to go there anymore...

...too bad Gerstmann probably signed an NDA; I'd like to hear what he has to say.

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unlimited - 769 days 17 hours ago

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shut down gamespot its the only way to save the gaming community..

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consolewar - 769 days 16 hours ago

9.1 - glad I'm wrong.......

for a moment I though Sony+Droids were using this for their shortcomings.
Thanks for clearing this up. Now let's "save the gaming community". LMAO

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gamesblow - 769 days 17 hours ago

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Ever notice it's always prodominate Microsoft 3rd party partnes that Gamespot always puts the go deep gloves on for?? I hate Assassins Creed and tell everyone who comes into my store asking about it what I think about it and then reccomend something else. I do the same with Kane and Lynch and several other games...

Gamespot crossed the line long ago and now they're paying for it. Simple as that. I hope they belly up and expose Microsoft while they're at it. Cnet and Microsoft are lovers. Gamespot is the pivot man.

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consolewar - 769 days 16 hours ago

10.2 - "...as much as I dislike some of microsoft's practices, sony is just as guilty....."

GTFO here dude, no that's not true. No way dude, no. You are talking about Sony dude c'mon, Sony. Sony represents everything that is pure and innocent in this world. Why are you making this up dude?. You must be a Xbot, yeah that must be it. Go fvck yourself dude.

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tmatte - 768 days 23 hours ago

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10.2 I almost didn't catch the sarcasm (mainly because of the stupidity of the people on this website)

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 769 days 16 hours ago

11 - hey

That's why you don't attack an amazing developer like Insomniac.

I have a feeling that if Gamespot had attacked an uninnovative, mediocre title like...let's say...Halo...they would've been in even more trouble.

Ratchet and Clank doesn't have the fanbase that Halo has...

...and yet...

...we're pretty mad because we KNOW it's a great franchise and Future: Tools of Destruction was INCREDIBLE!

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Kigmal - 769 days 6 hours ago

11.1 - dude

if halo 3 scored anything under a 9, I think Microsoft would of nuked CNET lol

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doomsonyman - 769 days 16 hours ago

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DOWN WITH THE DEVIL!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA gamespot look at you now

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name - 769 days 16 hours ago

13 - @ truthbetold

I was thinking the same thing. All these people protesting and organizing, perhaps they can protest things like..human rights or something

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notsonice - 769 days 6 hours ago

13.1 - Agreed!!!

Down with Human rights!!

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SEAN1617 - 769 days 16 hours ago

14 - i am sorry but

if those idiot gave perfect dark on the 360 a high score they deserve to be boycotted, so at least this should show you guys that developer indeed pay for their review to be good. So Screw you gamespot, what happen insomniac didn't pay you?

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Xemnas - 769 days 16 hours ago

15 - HMM

i smell the end of GS

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tk - 769 days 15 hours ago

16 - Boycots work

The word is out on the street - or - the web. All over their reputation is now shattered. The money they took better lasts, because their core market - the gamers - is leaving the building - accounts. When the visitors to the site dries up, the advertisers will leave - with the exception of the few who thought they might buy the positive reviews.

And this should be a warning to the rest out there as well. We can expect a number of other sites suddenly "correcting" their reviews to avoid scrutiny. Which will most probably make it only worse.

I expect we will see a lawsuit soon over this review tactics. It affects market share - and represents loss of earnings. In effect it is false advertising. What if a publisher sues them, and under cross examination a reviewer cracks and admits that he was instructed to give low scores to a title and downplay it in every way? That would represent loss of earnings for the publisher due to bribery. The one who paid for the bad review and the one giving the bad review will have to make up for the loss of earnings. Not to say of anti-competitive lawsuits etc that may come out of this. Reviews is a business, and must be held accountable according to business ethics.

I am quite sure a few fat little reviewers will sh*te their pants when they see in what kinds of trouble they can be for taking the gifts and inflating / deflating the scores in exchange.

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The_Engineer - 769 days 14 hours ago

19 - oh dear

wake me up when the xbot circle jerk over one of their lieutenants getting canned is over.

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Kigmal - 769 days 6 hours ago

19.2 - man

even at a non gaming type article your still a fanboy? my god get off your period kid damn

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bluecapone - 769 days 10 hours ago

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that site sucks anyway people should of been left that crap along time ago

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Kigmal - 769 days 6 hours ago

20.1 - the community is great

and thier reviews way back in the day were top notch, but it really just plummeted to hell

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Spinitus - 769 days 10 hours ago

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THIS IS MADNESS!!!

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xionpunk - 769 days 9 hours ago

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THIS IS SPARTAAA!!!

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n00dl3s - 769 days 4 hours ago

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lol /clap

+bubbles all around.

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xionpunk - 769 days 9 hours ago

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I was on the GS forums last night (haven't done that in a while) and I thought the reader score thing was pretty clever too. People over there are seriously pissed. Funny thing is, at least with the score of 6, K&L probably would have sold enough copies. Now that everyones attention is on it, I'm guessing thats not gonna happen. Probably not what Eidos had in mind.

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Dark_Overlord - 769 days 8 hours ago

23 - I must have joined this boycott ages ago without knowing

they are saying to boycott the ads as well as the site, i'm sure quite a few people on here use firefox with ad block and don't see the ads anyway

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JasonXE - 769 days 8 hours ago

24 - i think the way

you go about it is contacting the sponsors to remove there support for the site. If the site loses it sponsors then the site can't go on.

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