Halo 4 Pizza unboxing & Review video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxfElTffyE
I cant even tell if this is satire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxfElTffyE
I cant even tell if this is satire
Ok, the can/bag look awesome. I want one now.Expect these coming your way, Polygon. Halo 4 Marketing Partners are getting these.
Lucky we have people like yourself who think that breaching their own ethical standards is not thread worthy isn't it?
I never said that it wasn't thread worthy, I said that it's blown out of proportion.
There's been at least one accusation of plagiarism, which is about as serious a 'crime' that a writer can commit.
What's with all the junk food cross promotions lately? Mountain Dew, Doritos, Pizzahut, the MoH QL pizzas etc.Halo 4 Pizza unboxing & Review video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxfElTffyE
I cant even tell if this is satire
Well to be fair, they teach you in grade school that taking someone else's words, paraphrasing them, and passing them off as your own is still plagiarism.
The difference here being that press releases are designed for the expressed purpose of being paraphrased by media, so no one's work has been infringed on. In this case it's just lazy and shitty writing, instead of criminal.
Why?
Seriously. Why not just print them verbatim and mark them as press releases?
DeadThis has Polygon too far.
Halo 4 Pizza unboxing & Review video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxfElTffyE
I cant even tell if this is satire
Halo 4 Pizza unboxing & Review video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxfElTffyE
I cant even tell if this is satire
Mostly because it wasn't the appropriate resolution for the site and looked blurry.
Look, do I think it was the best, most useful post we've ever run? No, I don't. Do I see any malice in running it? Nope!
This smells like a witch hunt to me all we're doing is keeping the comments thread clear and on-topic. Since that was going to require a lot of maintenance, we just turned comments off.
We've spent a lot of money creating great gaming content that I think goes beyond what many of our peers have. I hope you look to that when you decide to dismiss the entire site based on one contest post. Here's a story from today!
I wasn't going to play Halo 4 but uh... seems like the latest comment is a gigantic spoiler that summarizes the plot of the whole game.
Reading the youtube description of the documentaries trailer again is just so....Polygon has no one to blame but themselves. They stated that they were going to "change everything" and that they were the great white hope of game journalism. The truth of the matter is that they are the same as any other gaming blog just with x2 the pretension. They like to have it both ways: we are different! Games matter! THIS IS MY REAL LIFE! and then when they face criticism, HEY MAN! IT IS JUST VIDEO GAMES.
You cannot have it both ways.
We believe the time is right for a media revolution. Audiences have fragmented. Advertising has changed. Technology has evolved. We believe we can fix what's broken, and we've risked everything to prove it. We're building Polygon and we've invited you to watch.
We believe the time is right for a media revolution. Audiences have fragmented. Advertising has changed. Technology has evolved. We believe we can fix what's broken, and we've risked everything to prove it. We're building Polygon and we've invited you to watch.
Halo 4 Pizza unboxing & Review video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxfElTffyE
I cant even tell if this is satire
So, I was just taking a look at the article on Polygon with regards to Hotline Miami creator Jonatan Soderstrom assisting users with tech issues on pirated copies of his game(which seems to be the same story I have read on several sites over the past two days) and I noticed that within the story they actually link to the pirate bay page for the pirated copy of the game.
Am I simply making something out of nothing, or is there something SERIOUSLY wrong with this?
You guys are making a big deal out of nothing.
Giantbomb has been around for five years and they've never deleted critical comments to silence discussion. It took Polygon what, like a week? to cross that line.Nah, they're happy to selectively choose to dislike one group of people doing the same thing as another group of people.
To be honest, without that documentary or that "WE WILL DO THINGS DIFFERENT", no one would have reacted to this.
I guess it's all about managing expectations.
Pretty much this. They got people pumped, raised that bar,tripped and rolled right under it, then told us not to read it if we don't like it.
I don't really know if this is directly related to journalism but it is so fucking ridiculous that I couldn't help but share it in this thread.
They are no different from Kotaku, which they mock aparently.
It's not - the LittleEnglishHaloBlog guy is simply a Halo mega-fan, not claiming to be a journo whatsoever.
No but it is related to the commercialism and cross promotion of Halo, which is a franchise that seems to be whored out to no end these days and nary a professional critic anywhere even mentions it.
Now when Disney did th same thing with The Lorax, you coudn't check your e-mail without a reference to all the stupid cross promotion, unnecessary product placement being mentioned.
This Halo 4 promotional stuff has gotten pretty goddamn absurd. Buy Moutain Dew and Dorrotos to gain exp. A Pizza Hut Halo 4 pizza. This is spreading your brand as thin as possible and calling anyone's bluff that want's to challenge it. Can anyone point me to a single games media outlet that discusses that?
Let's take another example. Does anyone think Bioshock would get this pass if there were Bioshock TacoBell Chalupas?*
*Please Shawn, for the love of God let it never be so.
So 1UP.com kinda sucks, but just saying, they made a point of ditching a traditional video game website model by not doing news reports, because everyone else already did, and therefore, they existed no market for them to do that in. Basically, they became an opinion blog.
At no point would I say that 1UP.com is a groundbreaking video games journalism website, but so far, I see nothing to say that Polygon is any better. Hell, even worse. They're liars. Polygon said that they would be a new wave for games journalism, but in what way are they? To me, a new wave would ignore press releases, a new wave would never do anything to advertise, whether intentionally or unintentionally, a product, unless it's through a review. At its base, Polygon has no value. The writers aren't particularly good - I can't say how good because I don't really know the quality of anyone on the site. The mission statement is entirely inaccurate. They are ironically so by-the-books that several websites that they would group in as being by-the-books are actually less by-the-books than they are. Perhaps something like comment deletion has happened at another website before, but that such censorship happened so unashamedly by an entity calling themselves different from everyone else is pitiful.
While 1up isn't a one stop kind of site anymore, I've been really loving their cover stories. There's been some fantastic content going up since they switched over. It's different and it isn't all-encompassing, but its certainly got me going back.
jesus game "journalists"
is this seriously how you want to be known working in your chosen field? I mean, seriously.
This is why I don't trust any reviews or previews from any website and genuinely laugh at anyone who tries to show me one to persuade me about a game. I select a few neoGAFers I know are trustworthy and articulate opinions I can trust and just go from there.
This shit is sickening at this point. I know you guys read neoGAF so really, if you have any self-respect left, fix some shit
Halo 4 Pizza unboxing & Review video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxfElTffyE
I cant even tell if this is satire
Newspapers are ~90% advertorials and press releases. Gaming journalism is really not worse.
Being outraged about ads and shit articles is not good for you. Just turn off and don't support it if you don't like it.
Newspapers are ~90% advertorials and press releases. Gaming journalism is really not worse.
What you're describing is personal recommendations from friends, family or anyone else in your social circle.
This has always carried more weight with consumers than product reviews from a critic or publication.
Have you ever even read a newspaper?
I don't know that many are outraged, or even genuinely disappointed. Amused is probably closer to the mark. Entertained.Being outraged about ads and shit articles is not good for you.