Giant Bomb Thread The Third: #TeamBrad

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firehawk12 said:
You guys think they'll talk about the CNET thing? Or is that too inside baseball/too close to home?
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Commenting on actions by your parent company is generally not a good plan. I can't imagine they're very happy about it right now.

I would hope that Jeff would be able to stave off any such pressure coming their way. And it isn't like Giant Bomb could exist without the guys, so they have some leverage there.
 
Would be good if they talked about this CNET business but yeah.... thats not happening.

Poor guys. You know they must feel like shit knowing things havent changed at all since they left gamespot.


Heck it might be a smart move on CBSi's part to let GB speak about there opinions on it. It will show they let editors speak there mind even if it might make the parent company look a little shitty in the short term.
 
a yakuza ER would be incredible. that game has so much insane shit.

although they could finish it pretty quickly if they didn't do the side stuff.
 
Die Squirrel Die said:
What's the CNET thing?
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=507904

In short, CBS made CNET change one of their CES awards and a journalist quit in protest.

panda21 said:
a yakuza ER would be incredible. that game has so much insane shit.

although they could finish it pretty quickly if they didn't do the side stuff.
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Between Persona 4 and Yakuza 3, I still don't know what I would have preferred.

Imagine if they did Yakuza 3 and all the Persona hype went to the Yakuza franchise instead? Maybe Yakuza 5 would have had a chance to be localized.

Then again, we probably wouldn't have gotten Persona 4 Golden... :p
 
Die Squirrel Die said:
What's the CNET thing?
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CNET picked hopper as their best of show for CES but the head honchos at CBS made them pick a new winner (since it can cut out commercials for CBS shows and CBS is suing them), people are resigning because of it

Beaten

But yeah, I don't think GB will talk about it
 
ultron87 said:
Commenting on actions by your parent company is generally not a good plan. I can't imagine they're very happy about it right now.

I would hope that Jeff would be able to stave off any such pressure coming their way. And it isn't like Giant Bomb could exist without the guys, so they have some leverage there.
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I'm confused. Has something gone down recently?

edit - ah someone explained it as I was posting this!
 
Die Squirrel Die said:
What's the CNET thing?
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CNET is the tech website owned by the parent company of Giant Bomb, CBSi.

CNET was at CES last week, and they wanted to give the Best in Show award to Dish Network's Hopper DVR, which does a bunch of really cool things, including recording all network primetime shows without commercials for viewing within a day or so.

When CBSi heard about this, a directive came down for Les Moonves, president of CBS that not only could the Hopper not win the award, but it could not even be mentioned as a nominee. They forced CNET to repick from among the other nominees. The reason given is that CBS is currently suing Dish Network over the Hopper.

They also made CNET issue a new directive that they are not allowed to talk about or review products currently under litigation from their parent company.

At least one CNET reporter has resigned over this.
 
i was about to say i'm guessing CBS won't ever be suing video game companies, but then they might make some kind of DVR type thing and then what?

is Blad's DmC review going up today? anyone know when the embargo is? really want to know what he thought of it?
 
The irony is that the CBS dude who stopped the award has created publicity for the product due to his actions.

It also highlights the corruption, and lack of integrity of his organisation.
 
firehawk12 said:
Imagine if they did Yakuza 3 and all the Persona hype went to the Yakuza franchise instead? Maybe Yakuza 5 would have had a chance to be localized.
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assuming its being localised to europe, an import endurance run of yakuza 5 would probably do great things for its chances of making it to the US.
 
It's not really the same thing as when Jeff left gamespot, they are in a legal battle with the company which is harmed by the award. It's been very poorly handled though.

And Brad would clearly be the community manager for all of anime.
 
I mentioned this in the other thread, but this is really nothing like Gerstmann-gate.

You cannot blame CBS for making sure no wholly owned subsidy endorses a product they're going to war over. It could be detrimental to their case. Bigger lawsuits have been won and lost on smaller technicalities.

Personally, I hope CBS win this. Shit like The Hopper just means more embedded advertising. Fuck that. Now who wants some Dr Pepper?
 
When Brad does leave he will leave the games industry and open a clinic to help poor inner-city kids get off Hunk.

He will probably still totally suck at doing that as well though.
 
Zaph said:
I mentioned this in the other thread, but this is really nothing like Gerstmann-gate.

You cannot blame CBS for making sure no wholly owned subsidy endorses a product they're going to war over. It could be detrimental to their case. Bigger lawsuits have been won and lost on smaller technicalities.

Personally, I hope CBS win this. Shit like The Hopper just means more embedded advertising. Fuck that. Now who wants some Dr Pepper?
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This makes sense to me, but if that's the case they should have the courtesy (and brains) to mention such things prominently.

"Unfortunately due to a legal dispute with our parent company CBSi, we can not cover the Hopper until the matter is resolved" blahblahblah.
 
Kinda worrisome that Moonves himself can meddle in all these sites at will, thank god he doesn't care about vidja games.

...Right?
 
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