Joystick Division has up an awesome story about Triplepoint PR, a video game industry PR agency that for quite awhile has been running a video game editorial site. They interview the owner of the PR company and in the course of trying to explain himself, pretty much just digs himself a deeper and deeper hole.
Is this a common thing in the gaming industry on the pr agency side?
http://www.joystickdivision.com/2008/09/slave_of_two_masters.php#more
Not only does he implicated himself as basically running two companies together that have a huge conflict of interest, he also manages to insult the journalists his company is targeting. Good show. Triplepoint for the fail.
Some memorable quotes from Kain:
"Quite honestly, we had not given it that much thought, but we are, you know, we are thinking about doing that as we speak."
On disclosing TriplePoint and GameCyte's relationship to GameCyte's readers.
"The frustration with the game (journalism) websites is the quality level. The quality level was... pretty poor in many respects."
On why games journalism has a bad reputation.
"I think people are responding to the high quality of work they see there."
Explaining GameCyte's remarkable access to game companies.
Is this a common thing in the gaming industry on the pr agency side?
http://www.joystickdivision.com/2008/09/slave_of_two_masters.php#more
Not only does he implicated himself as basically running two companies together that have a huge conflict of interest, he also manages to insult the journalists his company is targeting. Good show. Triplepoint for the fail.
Some memorable quotes from Kain:
"Quite honestly, we had not given it that much thought, but we are, you know, we are thinking about doing that as we speak."
On disclosing TriplePoint and GameCyte's relationship to GameCyte's readers.
"The frustration with the game (journalism) websites is the quality level. The quality level was... pretty poor in many respects."
On why games journalism has a bad reputation.
"I think people are responding to the high quality of work they see there."
Explaining GameCyte's remarkable access to game companies.