after reaping the harvest of a $750,000 investment on behalf of the generous philanthropists at microsoft's IE department, who saw an opportunity to become gracious patrons of the bastion of a new kind of non-partisan game journalism, polygon have unfairly come under fire from those wishing to grind their tin-foil corruption axes and cynics who couldn't find it in themselves to have faith in polygon's cause.
despite a heart-wrenching documentary which for the first time truly illustrates the toil and struggle that these crusaders of digital truth have put themselves through in order to act on their moral convictions, people were still trying to pour water on polygon's beacon lone beacon in the night.
rising above the noise, polygon came out defiant, with an ethics statement which stood them apart from all those two bit e-rags clambering over each other to suck at the PR teat:
"Our policies do not permit placements of advertorial on Polygon. We will endeavor to clearly mark any advertisement or "infomercial" (videos, Flash animations, etc.) shown on Polygon as an advertisement."
oops:
well, uh. maybe they actively sought out this story? you shouldn't assume that every PR-alike piece is straight from the corporate chimera's mouth..
Polygon:
Videogamer.com
EGMnow.com
i guess it's a story people want so bad that there's no time to dress it up in flowery new language, just get it out there, let their audience decide!
uh. so, i guess they were all just off topic trolls and spam comments then, like these?
well shit.