This is truly moronic. I kept expecting to see what the "misquote" was, but if it's really about calling something a 9 rather than an 8.9, it's just idiotic. IGN is the People Magazine or E - Entertainment News of the video games industry; zero substance and a weird sense of self importance.
Precisely what I was here to say.
Both of them come across as idiots but if I had to pick someone who comes across as the
bigger idiot, it would be Dan Stapleton. Honestly arguing about a decimal point and the difference between the preview and review, blah blah blah.
Shit like this and the whole Ubisoft handing out Nexus 7's is why games journalism is a complete and utter joke. Zero transparency and inflated egos all around.
Edit:
8.9 does not equal 9.0. So that is factually inaccurate. That's just the fact. Whether you think it's stupid that they have a .1 scale or not, it doesn't equal the same thing no matter how you slice it. It's close, but it's not the same. End of story.
But the argument is really, really stupid.
Stupid argument indeed, but you can't just dismiss Joe's point of view with your first two lines.
Dan's argument is that 8.9 should round
down to 8 because it's
not 9 while Joe's argument is that it rounds
up to 9 because.. well, that's how rounding works. The idea that 8.9 means it's a "Great" game because it's still an 8 when, in fact, it's closer to 9 is the most idiotic thing I've read from anyone at IGN in a while.