The_Intruder
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It's funny to come here to defend gameblog because you work for them.
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Gameblog.fr: PS4 Neo to be announced on September 7 in New York
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piccio_ssl
Member
Where have you been?
How about PS4 Ultra? more kick than "Plus", less brand confusion between PS Plus and PS4 Plus, and 4k is "Ultra" HD
Are you for real? You literally work for the website and you're acting like an arrogant prick to people questioning its reliability. Your comments and attitude in this thread tell me more about the quality of work I should expect from a website that hired you than any link that cherry picks the rumors the site got right ever will. Unbelievably immature and unprofessional behavior. If you're sick of having a bad rep then actually prove your worthy of a better one and stop talking down to people who are rightfully holding up past examples as cause to be skeptical.
The "let's news anything about pokemon go" is the clickbait.
And i see you've chosen to edit this matter out from my quote.
Can you read? That's a blog post written by a reader! The staff has nothing to do with that.
And people have to learn the difference between reports (of stuff we saw elsewhere) and posts tagged "INFO GAMEBLOG" that contain information that we've gotten from our sources.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Gameblog was (for example) the site who broke the news that Julien Merceron (Kojima Productions) had left Konami right? Did we just invent that?
Did Gameblog invent that Assassin's Creed 5 would take place in Paris and reveal the name of the character?
Those are just two examples.
The Praiseworthy
Member
I really really wish FFXV would have a patch in the first week for Neo.... But I know likely we wouldn't get one till maybe by the end of the year.
If only it was released a week later in October, we waited more than a decade we can wait extra week.
And as for the name of the console.. PS4 Plus would be perfect.
If only it was released a week later in October, we waited more than a decade we can wait extra week.
And as for the name of the console.. PS4 Plus would be perfect.
brandonh83
Banned
It is a shame that this is probably the case. It makes me want to hold out but there's just no way. The timing is simply shitty.
GhostTrick
Banned
Then again, no one said Gameblog is 100% wrong. But it's like the boy who cried wolf.
Gameblog.fr has a spotty record at best, but there are signs pointing out to a September reveal for Neo: PS4 shipments are reportedly getting extremely small in Japan, we have rumours from the sales blog all visitors of Media Create (Japanese) Sales thread know about something important happening for Sony in September, and John Harker hasn't been shy about stating that, between Sony and Nintendo, it's now a "race to see who announce first".
TheSpoiler
Member
We don't write garbage! We just host it on our website!
Arrogant prick? I'd love to see how you would react if people shit on what you do all the time all the while spewing fake information about what you do.
People keep refering to stuff that predates my arrival at Gameblog more than two years ago as proof that the site is unreliable. Over the years, and when it comes to "scoops" (and not "reports"), Gameblog has been more right than wrong.
And why don't you quote our long interviews with people from the industry like Phil Spencer, Shuhei Yoshida, Hideo Kojima, Patrice Désilets and so on? Are those shit as well?
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Why would PS4 shipments getting small in Japan mean anything regarding Neo? Sony is not phasing out the base model and it will definitely be the main seller going forward.
The_Intruder
Member
And now you have their own redactor that come here to defend their own business.
Lol, but where are the false information you've written on your list? Wii music, NX with PS4Neo Power, etc.
Congratulations, you bought a great console. It will receive awesome new games for years to come.
TheSpoiler
Member
Honestly, Id just let it go. It's unprofessional, and if the record truly "speak for itself", you shouldn't need to be running defense. Hell, you've only achieved in furthering their point, as the Ass Creed thing was on NeoGAF first!
You are not helping your case in any way.
snake_eater_raiden
Member
I don't think this source is reliable. I remember the site owner trolling everyone that he just saw something and had MGS5 theme as a background music.
Regardless whether this is true or false, the NEO is coming this year so it's only obvious they will do it in September (since we are already in August and they can't do it after September given the Holiday rush).
It seems that this a story that has just been made under the right situation and the right time.
Regardless whether this is true or false, the NEO is coming this year so it's only obvious they will do it in September (since we are already in August and they can't do it after September given the Holiday rush).
It seems that this a story that has just been made under the right situation and the right time.
Aye. September might be crazy.
snake_eater_raiden
Member
You really need to calm down. If you have so much confidence why don't you back down and let your article do the talking when September comes?
Some Nobody
Junior Member
I'm not a big fan of PS4 Neo as a concept, but: fuck outta here with this. Not one person on this site has no business whining about this. You're on NeoGAF, a site that aggregates video game news faster than anywhere else--there's literally NO excuse for you not to know about the Neo when every month since like April there's been at least a half dozen (SERIOUSLY lowballing it) threads a month about it.
GhostTrick
Banned
Your arrival at Gameblog isn't the point. Then again, it's not about you, it's about Gameblog. I understand, you work there and it's not easy to have a bad rep when you do a good job. But then again, this reputation didn't appeared out of nowhere.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
I'm almost certain that was a joke...
Trying to set the record straight in unprofessional? I didn't know that caring about your work is a bad thing.
Believe me, bashing Gameblog is sort of like a personal crusade for some people. Even if we started breaking news every day, they still shit on us everywhere they can.
And here, they talk with English-speaking people who don't know the site. So if there's only bad things being said, they'll have more reasons to believe it.
Yu Narukami
Member
Next article on gameblog:
Pourquoi NeoGAF ne m'aime-t-il pas?
Pourquoi NeoGAF ne m'aime-t-il pas?
Katana_Strikes
Member
Some people are a bit grumpy this Monday morning...
First, it's not "my" article as I didn't write it.
Second, the info turning out to be true won't change a thing. Our previous scoops didn't stop people from bashing Gameblog in here didn't they?
The Praiseworthy
Member
Man relax !
It's still the same console... The same games the same support the same everything, so just enjoy your console... Not everyone are going to upgrade and many are goung to stick with the basic PS4 till PS5 years later.
There are a great games ahead to look forward to
The_Intruder
Member
FalsettoVibe
Member
Yay! Hope this is true.
Reckless Onion
Member
Hopefully the controller gets revised
mavericktopgun
Member
It'll be called PS4+ or PS4 Premium I guess.
Pardon my french but mdr.
snake_eater_raiden
Member
So if you assume that way, why are you defending against people's opinions? As I said, why not the site you work for, do the talking this September? If you are extremely confident of the report your site published, you really don't need to be upset or feel bad about what people are saying.
Let your site do the talking when September arrives and then people will judge whether your rumor has any credibility.
As for me personally, your site owner trolled everyone that he saw something with MGS5 theme wrapped around it back in June. Pretty unprofessional if you ask me, given the "phantom pain" a certain section of MGS community is going through.
GhostTrick
Banned
Then again, a broken clock can be right at a time. In this case, it's close enough and precise enough to be true. No one is denying Gameblog has infos or has been right. But being wrong so many times and this clickbait attitude... hard to consider it trustworthy.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
*sighs* And now I'm in the unenviable position of saying "that's not funny" ('cause it isn't) only for everyone else to be like "yeah sure dude whatever".
kaisersephirot
Member
OK, it's time to put my old PS4 on local ebay-like site, need to sell it before news are out
TheSpoiler
Member
It's an internet message board. You aren't going out into the vast public and addressing the masses. You aren't even crafting an article to back your claims. At this point, you are trashing around, dragging the name of your website through the mud (as I pointed out with the Ass Creed thing). It's even worse because you said "let the record speak for itself", and you are doing the exact opposite.
People have bashed the websites I've worked at for years now, including my personal one. You know what I do? Ignore it, unless the criticisms are founded upon something.
You are acting incredibly unprofessional. I'd suggest just leaving it.
That MGS 5 was just a case of people jumping to conclusions. Julien just used music he had on his phone. He never wanted to tease MGS-related stuff. He is a HUGE MGS fan and I believe he wouldn't want to play with people's expectations like that.
So again you are supposedly a professional representing your website here on this forum but you are talking down to people and you are wondering why your website has a bad reputation?
Second both of those headlines you cite originated from either game forums or Reddit with the AC rumor even being here on NeoGAF and then Kotaku over a week before the article on your site was published. That is not a win for you nor does it prove you're reliable. All it proves is that your site finds rumors all over the web and republishes them then some of them turn out to be true. Of the rumors that your site does not find elsewhere they are either painfully obvious things nobody would think to post as rumors or they are wrong the vast majority of the time. That is why your website is not trusted and your posts and attitude in this thread certainly aren't doing it any favors to reverse that.
I work in a job where I get evaluated regularly. It is literally someone's job to come in and critique my work. But I'm a professional so my response is to actually listen to that feedback and learn from it. I absolutely do not insult the person who is giving me feedback nor do I try to correct them on why they are "wrong."
Reputations are earned over a period of time and they take a longer time to change. If you want the site to have a better reputation prove ppl wrong about it and that will happen. Telling them off and insulting them will absolutely not make that happen.
You want proof? Look at the way Kotaku has gained such a positive reputation when it comes to investigative journalism after being reviled by so much of the gaming community for its click bait content for years and years. They did that by consistently creating quality content and after awhile people gave them the props they deserved for it.
You are acting like you are owed a good reputation just because you weren't a part of the site during previous mishaps when in reality it is the site's reputation that people keep in mind when considering validity not yours. Changing it will take time and work not childish insults and rudely dismissive diatribes misrepresenting people's words or arguments. I suggest you stop soon as this behavior has consequences on this forum.
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GhostTrick
Banned
So sites can have scoops but when Gameblog has one, it's just a lucky case of a clock being right twice a day.
Y'see PS4+ would work as a name if they didn't already have a thing called "Playstation Plus", I think that could cause a lot of confusion.
I think PS4+ and PS4K are both snappy and good names when taken out of the context of other existing products, but out of the two, PS4K probably markets better.
Smooth Operator
Member
Don't trust Gameblog, and please don't give them a click. They are hated in France for good reasons.
Who are you at Gameblog by the way ?
I used to read a lot of article/news and listen to the podcasts when Rahan was still there.
I even tried to get to work for it, a "stage", but everyone ignored me there, which left me feeling a bit betrayed, seeing how Gameblog became my go-to website for gaming news.
Oh well.