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- NaziHatinChimp, on 12/03/2007, -1/+133I'll never know because I refuse to check.
- plethorex, on 12/03/2007, -2/+82Porn ads and the crazy "whack George Bush with a mallet to win an iPod" banners shall reign once again!
- Synthesize, on 12/03/2007, -4/+78If all the advertisers pull their ads from GameSpot, I'm sure they will get the message. ***** GameSpot and their corporate ass wipes.
- mode7even, on 12/03/2007, -9/+65Ads? O yea, ads. Forgot about them. Thank you, Firefox!
- kanimara, on 12/03/2007, -8/+41How long does it take until the douchebag responsible for all of this is fired? I mean honestly, he cost the company millions of dollars. Where as the reviewer maybe cost the company $500k in the future, and was fired ASAP.
Fire the jackass responsible ASAP CNET, that is what you need to do to prevent any furture losses of reputation and advertising revenue. You keep him, and you are just screwing yourself in both the short, and long term. - IClavdivs, on 12/03/2007, -3/+31...and we still have no official comment! ***** you Josh Larson, you owe us that much at least!
- FredFredrickson, on 12/03/2007, -2/+30"Did Pepsi cave to the groundswell of public discontent towards Gamespot and pull its Mountain Dew support? Sure looks that way."
This is why I hate bloggers. There's absolutely no journalistic integrity, and the result is that no facts get checked, and rumors get started that simply aren't true. This is posted as news on Digg because some idiot on the internet believe that it "seems rather unlikely" that Pepsi is still advertising on GameSpot.
Hey *****. Why don't you call up Pepsi and ask them before posting about it like you know what the hell you're talking about. - IClavdivs, on 12/03/2007, -3/+25I just went to Gamespot and I swear I saw a tumbleweed blow across the screen.
- shaun1018, on 12/03/2007, -2/+22How is this even a conspiracy?
1. Eidos pays huge cash for ads on CNET's Gamespot.
2. Gamespot reviewer trashes game.
3. Eidos pulls advertising.
4. Gamespot needs a whipping boy and fires Jeff.
Its simple it's not like its the freaking moon landing crazies or JFK assassination nut bags. - shaun1018, on 12/03/2007, -8/+26Long live http://www.cashwh0re.com
- Sil369, on 12/03/2007, -5/+21IMPEACH#%%!^
- gypsi, on 12/03/2007, -0/+15as much as i'd like to think pepsi pulled ads, this is a bit of a stretch
- sloppychris, on 12/03/2007, -0/+15You can't throw out numbers that just sound right. That's not how numbers work.
- shaun1018, on 12/03/2007, -1/+13I get to hit bush AND win an iPod SWEET!
- kije, on 12/03/2007, -0/+11When did we take them off?
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -1/+11Too bad they won't because Gamespot got in trouble for pandering to advertisers. I doubt advertisers will pull advertising because Gamespot panders to them.
Yes, Mountain Dew is gone, replaced by Alienware. I really don't see the big deal. Until they're advertising for "Joes Discount Barbeque Bistro" I don't see them in all that much trouble.
Did they lose respect? Yes. Did they lose any prestige they had among gaming sites? Absolutely. Are they going to go out of business? Probably not. - ByteGuerilla, on 12/03/2007, -1/+10Bear in mind that advertisers want to advertise on popular sites. If Gamespot's popularity takes the hit it looks like it will, then advertisers will pay less for the space, or not bother.
- SevenTwo, on 12/03/2007, -3/+12http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=loloo3.jp ...
- TommyTSquared, on 12/03/2007, -0/+9Or perhaps there are a multitude of companies trying to get space since the site is getting hammered and in the news everyday ( and will be for quite sometime ). Sure, some of us see it as a bad idea being associated with bad press of the company, but to everyone that's just seeing what all the fuss is about they are making their product more known.
Then again, that's just a shot in the dark... - aywwts4, on 12/03/2007, -0/+9Thankfully what makes gamefaqs great are faqs that they don't own, while the community is good they can follow anywhere that can stand the brunt of hosting thousands of plain text files.
- V1ncent, on 12/03/2007, -3/+12Adblock - it's always had no ads :)
- EPH99, on 12/03/2007, -0/+8As much as I'd love for this to be true - can we please get some hard facts amongst all the speculation swirling around this incident???
- otatop, on 12/03/2007, -0/+8What?
- teddyrux, on 12/03/2007, -1/+7From a marketing perspective, advertising on gamespot is as profitable, if not more profitable than ever (or will be in the coming months). Think of it this way, smart gamers buy good games. Dumb gamers buy anything that gets a high rating. Since all the smart gamers are leaving the site, they can give high ratings to anything and will sell their products because of the user base. Their CPM won't rise, but if this logic has any truth to it, it should. Eidos might as buy up the advertising and keep producing ***** games...because through gamespot and their biased reviews, they'll make a lot of sales.
- sloppychris, on 12/03/2007, -0/+6I actually became a regular at digg after the dvd encryption key debacle.
- TantrooM, on 12/03/2007, -2/+8And since they stopped user reviews for Kayne and Lynch, users have been giving 1.0s to other of Eidos games. Looks like they wanted to buy good reviews, and they ended up paying for bad.
Oh silly irony... - Elranzer, on 12/03/2007, -4/+9I'm all for Gamespot going down, but I hope they don't bring down GameFAQs with them. C|NET and Gamespot always were cancers on GameFAQs' spot of the Internet.
- elvenseven, on 12/03/2007, -0/+5http://digg.com/gaming_news/Josh_Larson_Director_a ...
- Shaflugi, on 12/03/2007, -0/+5Great. Now I'm scarred for life. Thanks a lot.
- onClipEvent, on 12/03/2007, -3/+7in case there are some people that are sick and tired of Gerstmann news, i'm just digging any and every related item so: 1) it keeps the pressure on Gamespot, 2) and show my support for all the editors, 3) keep it on the front page so we get some answers.
- KSpark, on 12/03/2007, -0/+4Anyone else reminded of that huge ebaumsworld fiasco a few months back?
A few nerds with computers can ***** up an entire corporation. Mmm, I feel the power coursing through my fingers. I relish it. - IClavdivs, on 12/03/2007, -0/+4This is definitely one for the Internet entomology case study book.
- IdanE, on 12/03/2007, -2/+6Let me be honest - I don't know who that guy was - I haven't used gamespot in ages. BUT, if you're going to make a move like that, you damn well better make it look as if he's the one leaving the company, not the company dumping him. For a PR related firing this is stupid- they should have consulted their PR guys !
- smek2, on 12/03/2007, -0/+4Go AdBlock plus!
- Cyber_Akuma, on 12/03/2007, -0/+4"UPDATE: As of 2:30am (Monday) there are zero ads/wallpapers adorning gamespot."
A major gaming site with no ads? Sounds like a good deal to me. - daridave, on 12/03/2007, -1/+5I agree. Cancelled my subscription, removed my bookmark, said bye to my community friends on the site and I promised myself I will never visit that site again. Dramatic? Maybe, but it just pisses me off to know that the site I respected the most might just be the most corrupted of them all. What an insult to all of us...
- kanimara, on 12/03/2007, -0/+4Yes I am not really getting numbers from anywhere, as no one really knows.
Were a few articles that stated Edios was pulling $400k in future advertising though. - strictnein, on 12/03/2007, -0/+4Actually, that is a pretty ironic little screen capture, too bad you failed at linking it properly:
http://img441.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lolzh8.pn ... - bitORlogic, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3Hell, if you can guarantee me the chance to hit Bush with a mallet, I'll give YOU an iPod.
- rarson, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3"Now theirs no adds."
You did that on purpose, didn't you? - RooDoG, on 12/03/2007, -1/+4A side note... the website looks much better now that it has no adds cluttering it... that is all
- alphaeno, on 12/03/2007, -2/+5Just deleted Gamespot from my favorite's list
- HappyScrappy, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3All the parties involved say Eidos didn't pressure gamespot.
- gebx, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3Not really... First off only gamers visit websites. Dumb or not they know that a 5/10 or 6/10 is a poor game. People who buy crap are the non gamers who don't visit websites. So unless Johnny's Mommy, who bought him Eragon, starts visiting the website, gamespot is going to take a financial hit.
- zydar, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3The Gamespot is a lie.
- radda, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2No, that's the cheap gamers. Smart gamers buy the games they like to support the industry.
Video game companies != RIAA - p0tent1al, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2What are the chances that Pepsi is going to comment on that, let alone tell the truth? The blogger spoke his opinion, and it INDEED does look that way, he did not state it as fact. Many news stations do this also, so go attack ABC, CBS, FOX, and every other news station before you decide to throw a temper tantrum about "journalistic integrity".
- Tippis, on 12/03/2007, -1/+3Depemds on whether you see reviews as part of your advertisement strategy or not.
If you do, then sure, combining the postive spin of your ads with the negative spin of the reviews will create a mixed message, which will weaken your campaign.
If you don't, then the fact that they gave you a bad review should mean that you spend *even more* on ads because you need to counter that negative message.
Going with the assumption that they pulled their ads because of a bad review only shows that they follow the first logic, which means that the whole story is true, and that Eidos and Gamespot are completely untrustworthy. - dagamer34, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2Sony's ads are still up.
- smacksaw, on 12/03/2007, -1/+3Jeff should start a site called firedgames.com or something and poach all of his buddies. Tailor it as a hardcore, no-apologies site. Make it so that publishers that don't give them games get mocked to death like At The Movies does, but with the teeth of internet mockery. Like give out free games from Eidos' competitors who make the best YTMND or PS' of the pussies who won't give games for review.
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