Had no idea this spawned a thread. I was too busy watching the Bulls roll over to LeBron last night.
The criticism about the headline is interesting. I've only been at Kotaku/Gawker a few months, but one of the things they/we try to do is reflect the emotion of pieces. When we come up with a headline, the author pitches a few in a group chat, and we mull over the one that works best, tweak them, etc. I came up with a few others:
With P.T.'s Deletion, Konami Is Erasing Gaming History
Konami Sucks
The Problems With P.T.'s Deletion Are Bigger Than P.T.
I Really Hate Konami Right Now
Those are the four I pitched. All of them are accurate to the post. #2 and #4 were mostly jokes, but I did feel that way! Everyone immediately gravitated towards the second one, so we went with it. Yes, it's slightly hyperbolic, but done so in a way that's meant to capture how myself (and other players) feel about a piece of gaming history being trashed without thought or explanation.
So criticism noted, but I feel okay about it.
A reader whose clicks drive the ad revenue that pays his salary.
I spent days researching a Let's Play story that went up earlier in the day. (Perhaps understandably, it did a fraction of the traffic.)
http://kotaku.com/who-invented-lets-play-videos-1702390484#_ga=1.243881541.1195355817.1427382822
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