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Giant Bomb #7 | Hey There, Small Business Owner!
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All they said was they heard about it but they don't really have anything to say about it.
Is there any way for this to work using the iPhone official Podcast app?
Chance Hale
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They going to do a Kirby quick look? Triple Deluxe is pretty rad. Then again Brad's hate of adventure is sad :/
It should be a new premium feature to compliment Vinnyvania, Brad Sucks At Kirby.
ShockingAlberto
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I think was during the Demon's Souls Breaking Brad that Brad mentioned he heard something strange about Dark Souls 2's development but wasn't at liberty to talk about it. In retrospect, it was probably the stuff about the lighting and the preview build looking better than the retail one.
Wouldn't surprise me if he had heard about Beast a while back but couldn't say anything.
Wouldn't surprise me if he had heard about Beast a while back but couldn't say anything.
funkystudent
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Hey look Giantbomb broke their "lets not post stories about kickstarters" for a Harmonix game.
I totally did not see that coming.
I have no problem if GB wants to promote random kickstarters but come on.... Try and stick to your own words. It makes you look scummy when you dont.
I totally did not see that coming.
I have no problem if GB wants to promote random kickstarters but come on.... Try and stick to your own words. It makes you look scummy when you dont.
And surprise, it's posted by Alex.
Hot Coldman
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actually gonna agree with funkystudent on this one
brb gonna clean my mouth out with soap
brb gonna clean my mouth out with soap
I can see a potential justification in that it's an established company doing a Kickstarter, but I can't recall if they posted stories for the Shadows of the Eternal or Project Eternity. If they had, this is less off-putting, but if they didn't, they probably should not have posted this.
Regardless, Alex should not have been the one to post the story. It should have been Patrick.
ShockingAlberto
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Yeah, that's a little on the shady side but mostly because of the inconsistency in the policy.
Cream
like a little baby bird sneezing!
The project beast stuff seemed to break during UPF this week, and when Rorie asked Brad what he thought about it, he seemed hesitant to say anything.
Infinite Justice
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almost thought they were not gonna talk about project beast until Patrick finally remembered lol
ShockingAlberto
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No, I know that, what I'm saying is that I wouldn't be surprised if someone inside with Souls games tells him things and he had heard about Project Beast a while back.
ShockingAlberto
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He probably gets paid a lot better at Gamespot and gets to live overseas and paid flights back whenever he needs, I can't imagine GB is going to give him a package that doesn't impact his quality of life considerably.
Baron_Calamity
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This one inconsistency isn't worth getting worked up over.
LurkerPrime
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It always begins with one.
If the Giant Bomb Cabal is ever going to overtake the Idle Thumbs Cabal as most influential shadowy power organization in the gaming industry, a few unsuspecting Kickstarters are gonna have to get pimped along the way. Policy be damned!
Alex probably shouldn't have been the one to do the writeup, the dots connect too easily. Little eye raising but this is fairly big news even without the personal connections.
funkystudent
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I dont know.
Posting a Kickstarter story. Something members of the site are already against.
Having the Kickstarter being for a friend of the sites vanity project.
Having a ex employe of said company post the story.
I cant think of many more ways they could make it look dirtier other then eventually getting personally involved with the Kickstarter itself.
They did the same for Double Fine and Massive Chalice I believe.
On one hand, it's silly to get worked up over them promoting a Kickstarter for friends, but on the other, there has been a pretty consistent "We don't talk about Kickstarters until they are funded" among most of the crew.
They know the power they hold with posting it to the general website, and it can come off as taking advantage of that.
Edit: and the Massive Chalice one was posted by Patrick
On one hand, it's silly to get worked up over them promoting a Kickstarter for friends, but on the other, there has been a pretty consistent "We don't talk about Kickstarters until they are funded" among most of the crew.
They know the power they hold with posting it to the general website, and it can come off as taking advantage of that.
Edit: and the Massive Chalice one was posted by Patrick
I actually agree about the Harmonix stuff. They're so close to that company (and Alex even more so than the others) that I don't think it looks good posting that story when they never "promote" a Kickstarter with its own news story. I can't remember the last time they even posted a story like that about a Kickstarter.
Not a huge deal or anything, but it just looks a bit strange.
Anyways, cool to actually post in this thread after lurking GAF for forever. Can't wait for the weekend!
Not a huge deal or anything, but it just looks a bit strange.
Anyways, cool to actually post in this thread after lurking GAF for forever. Can't wait for the weekend!
It's a dumb 'rule' to begin with. I mean, I don't want to read a news story about every 90's developer who licences their old IP and Kickstarts a remake, but there are still some legitimately interesting KS stories, including this one (it's basically Sony taking a very close look at KS with a small, by-proxy, PS only, test project).
I imagine the frustration was with their inboxes getting absolutely flooded with desperate pleading for attention, but still, arbitrary rules serve no purpose.
I imagine the frustration was with their inboxes getting absolutely flooded with desperate pleading for attention, but still, arbitrary rules serve no purpose.
Regardless of that general rule (isn't that more Patrick's rule, and he does post links to Kickstarters every week in his Worth Reading column), I think this is more about Alex posting a news story about his former employer's new Kickstarter. I don't think it's that big of a deal, but it looks a bit strange. Patrick probably should've written that story.
Askherserenity
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Who cares? It's not like they're going to post something up for every fucking Kickstarter out there but they do sometimes post stuff up about the bigger ones. Really don't see how there's anything wrong with it.
Hot Coldman
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Cool, classy of him.
Jeff keeping it classy as always.
Very classy. It's probably good that they're going to reevaluate their KS policy.
Mr. Enigma
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Handled the best way it could have been. Kudos to all involved for keeping it classy.
maquiladora
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Eh Harmonix going to Kickstarter is an interesting story because they're a big developer responsible for one of the most lucrative franchises gaming's ever seen.
Didn't Giant Bomb make a joke about Amplitude at the Pax East panel? It's obviously a game concept those guys are interested in. Who cares about the appearance of impropriety anyway? It's actual impropriety that matters.
More Jeffs:
http://blog.jeffgerstmann.net/post/84841089541/i-for-one-would-have-no-problem-with-you-posting
Didn't Giant Bomb make a joke about Amplitude at the Pax East panel? It's obviously a game concept those guys are interested in. Who cares about the appearance of impropriety anyway? It's actual impropriety that matters.
More Jeffs:
Q said:
A said:
http://blog.jeffgerstmann.net/post/84841089541/i-for-one-would-have-no-problem-with-you-posting
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
While I personally don't have any problems with Alex writing a KS story about Harmonix I think it was a smart choice to take it down.
i thought he laughed at the way he said it the first time and then corrected himself. the first time he didn't say any words, just some random shit
Keyser Soze
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Rorie is brilliant.
He did the same last week, asking "what's the objective here then?" when Danny was playing Sensible Soccer. His comic timing is glorious!
Jeff is all business there. Good responses.
So they're actually going for another on camera personality? That's cool! I was sure they were just gonna hire 1-2 producers/editors at first.
edit: So what they're looking for right now is one Associate Editor (on camera, reviews etc.), one Associate Producer and one summer intern for the engineering team (but who knows what sites in the CBSi family that person will work on). Interesting times.
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