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[Soler]

There is no "line on the sand" and it's somewhat ignorant to think so. They said "Patrick's going to look into this more" during their DRM breakdown video and he started contacting publishers for comment. They are actually being patient and trying to get down all the facts before concluding on it instead of rushing straight to a condemnation article. Being patient and investigating doesn't mean someone is in bed with a manufacturer. It just means they believe they can do a better article by using a bit more investigation instead of running out and publishing a fire and brimstone article after reading a webpage and they are primed to do it at E3 because they will have a lot more face to face time with industry people. Even if it isn't MS execs.

I'd rather have a properly investigated article than ranting hyperbole and kudos to GB for having the patience to actually look into this further and discuss it instead of just shoving up a popular "This sucks" article straight away, even if it means accusations of bias against them.

Giant bomb is quick to dismiss Sony and Nintendo and ridicule them on things as well
They were criticizing GameStop just the other day
And now MS is basically giving GS a monopoly
I don't think they're in bed with MS I just think they have no spine

 

[1-D_FTW]

There is no "line on the sand" and it's somewhat ignorant to think so. They said "Patrick's going to look into this more" during their DRM breakdown video and he started contacting publishers for comment. They are actually being patient and trying to get down all the facts before concluding on it instead of rushing straight to a condemnation article. Being patient and investigating doesn't mean someone is in bed with a manufacturer. It just means they believe they can do a better article by using a bit more investigation instead of running out and publishing a fire and brimstone article after reading a webpage and they are primed to do it at E3 because they will have a lot more face to face time with industry people. Even if it isn't MS execs.

I'd rather have a properly investigated article than ranting hyperbole and kudos to GB for having the patience to actually look into this further and discuss it instead of just shoving up a popular "This sucks" article straight away, even if it means accusations of bias against them.

And this is why they'll always be enthusiast press and not journalists. No one has ever gotten anywhere by politely submitting questions (that you know someone doesn't want answered). It's a complete waste of time and I don't know why anyone even runs stories like that that (cause it makes them look lazy and inept as journalists).

If you really want answers, you need contacts who are willing to talk anonymously. That's how these things have always worked. Without that, there is no story. It's not worth the text it's printed with. This is something the enthusiast press rarely does (since it pisses people off and tends to violate NDA's designed to neuter them).

 

[RobbieH]

Kotaku is still a go?

Yeah, Schreier just said so on Twitter.

 

[eddfromtheriver]

I know having MS do well, and all consoles doing well, is good for the industry.

I know no matter how insane some of their policies appear to be, people will still buy Xbone's en masse because of CoD/Madden/Haloz/whatever and such and many people simply will not care about all this.

A) Having MS do well with the game plan they currently have is not good for the industry if you've come to love gaming as is, and not with the changes MS are trying to impose on us.

B) And maybe people will buy Microsoft's new gaming console, but i'm sure as hell going to let all of the people who will listen about the downsides of said machine be it IRL or over the internet, how it's going to affect them, specially in my country and the way that gaming culture is over here.

 

[RobbieH]