esatterwhite (December 23, 2007 at 6:18 pm)

( sorry this makes more sense if you read my comments from the bottom up )I also tend to buy games that gerstmann had recommended, I got the orange box and gear of war for the PC. Seemingly, advertising dollars at work, case in point. However, I will no longer rely on gamespot for information on which games are "good" or "bad". hence 1 less person for advertisers to spend their marketing dollars on.

esatterwhite (December 23, 2007 at 6:17 pm)

If, now, after these events people don't go to gamespot, don't trust their reviews and so on, there will be no point for game companies to spend their money advertising to gamespot because they would no long have the marketability as we their viewers don't want to buy what they are selling in a sense.For example, the only eidos games I have ever purchased were tomb raider and soul reaver. I never again will purchase an eidos title.

esatterwhite (December 23, 2007 at 6:17 pm)

Well we as viewers may not provide gamespot with a large part of their revenue directly. however advertisers pay all of those millions of dollars to gamespot because they know they have/had the largest pull with gamers and know that gamespot provides the greatest visibility and marketing power for games. They spend money on gamespot advertising so we - gamespot views will buy the games that we see on their site.

kleppemeister (December 14, 2007 at 10:51 pm)

Not sure if your aware of this, but we bring that add money. Its not like the banners and shit is made so that the guys that own the site can watch em. It think its the users. So we acctualy sit with all the power in the world on this thing here. We own the company in a way. Without us they would have to close there doors.

agentpiltdown (December 10, 2007 at 2:06 am)

I think you're wrong about us not having any recourse. People are going to be closing there browsers in droves at Gamespot because they don't trust them, and will go to there rival sites. Your statistics are interesting though, and paint a bad picture. This is why I mainly rely on hands on experience and word of mouth for games, but it's still good to see one of these corporate giants which are meant to represent us get hit in the balls.

Cyberdactyl (December 8, 2007 at 3:14 pm)

I think many serious gamers that are NOT fanboys for any particular game or genre will move to other sites for reviews. I personally have lost a good bit of trust in GS.

GabrielStefan (December 6, 2007 at 10:02 pm)

Also as for the rating scale it isn't something done just to make purblishers happy. It's all about mentality, simply put a score less the a 5 is considered to be a failure. So unless the game really sucks you aren't going to use half the scale for it.

GabrielStefan (December 6, 2007 at 10:02 pm)

I don't agree that users aren't important, since even Ad money is based on users. No users = no ad money. No one is going to spend thousands of dollars for an Ad no one will see. When you decide to purchase Ad space on a site your going to want to know that there people who actually see it. If gamespot loses users then their ad money, as well as subscription money, is going to dry up.

gingershavesouls (December 6, 2007 at 12:16 am)

im impressed

InfernalXpression (December 5, 2007 at 7:45 am)

good speech man...but no matter what you say,ppl will disregard gamespot due to this incident and wont hesistae to look elsewhere for a review.