I highly suggest GameSpot coordinates a New Year's Resolution or something...

I totally agree with you, buddy. Gamespot has been heading downhill for awhile now. Their review system has changed for the worse, Jeff Gerstman was fired, and Rich Gallup, the face of Gamespot, has departed.

The fact that no admin has commented on any of these issues and that they lock any topic on this immediately is a joke. We really need something like a resolution. I am a huge supporter of GS, and for anything else to go would be devastating. Right now, I need any reassuranceI can get, since there's little hope now.

If Gamespot promises to change, I'll stay here longer. But I WILL leave Gamespot if anything else happens. I have been with Gamespot for over a year, and in that year, so much has gotten worse. This was my source for the best reviews around the clock. This was an awesome place to post on the boards and discuss games. This was my favorite place for any gaming news.

Not anymore.

So far, GS has not shown me or anyone else what justifies all of this firing, fixing, and changing.

I agree-if anyone locks this topic, I will leave right now, if you want. I could just go to IGN or GT for my gaming news.

But what's keeping me here now is the heart and soul that used to be put into this site. Now, it has sunken beyond belief. Please, Gamespot. We need a response.

What you don't understand, Gamespot, is that you have fans. That's right, people who come to your website for honest reviews from your top editors.

But when youFIRE one of the SENIOR editors who has been around for TEN years over an ADVERTISEMENT, it shows how stupid and dimwitted you could actually be.

By doing this, you have obliterated any respect we have ever had for you and any of your current editors.

I am ashamed to even be supporting you. We need something of a resolution fast, or 80% of your fanbase will be gone. And to think I was thinking of subscribing...

Fix it, Gamespot. Fast.

all to true

if this doesnt change up soon The Headcrab Union will probably be leaving gamespot and setting up our own site.

Gamespot has lost focus of what it was origionally designed for.

The customers (you, me this whole community)

instead they are pleasing some big corporate scumbags and you are just digging your own hole right now

GS is going to crumble and die if this keeps up :)

I've been here for like..3 years now. and now i barely come here anymore cause GS is turning into a pile of steaming...poop.

so yeah...do something. >_>

Giving it a second thought I just realized that nothing will be done :D. People tend to forget and with time noone will remember or care about this issue. GS user review dumbing down issue died out pretty swiftly, noone cares that staff reviews are poor at best and the highest scores are given to simplistic and repeating console games.

I believe that in the movie Why We Fight one of the interviewed called USA an United States of Amnesia, but this is not just the problem in USA but all over the world. You can cancell subscriptions and leave, but noone will cry in CNET after us. So what that I spent here 5-6 years and I am registered for 3. I am not the core of GS community and not a targed customer - too old, too demanding and maybe too whatever.

All I can say to GS ignoring my requests and notices is quote from Cartman:

'S*rew you guys, I am going home'.

Instead of beating a dead horse, I just leave this sort of plea:

Union leaders (including myself and many others) are seriously disheartened to see the promise of the union redesign completely and utterly fail due to poor prioritizing and corporate nonsense. I understand there have been setbacks, changes in adminstration and all the bureaucratic steps... but this has gone to the point that unless something gets done soon, something almost irreversible is going to happen.

Recent events are just a tipping point, unions have been faltering for quite some time and the unions which have weakened due to broken promises, dissolved under empty hope given to them by union leaders... they're all on the verge of just packing up their things and moving on. I ask for some of you to just step back and ask...

Why? It's not because there's no interest in the union program... if there was none, all the unions would've been long gone. It's because the promises of a better system were made and broken. If just an effort was made aside from the usual "We'll take it into thought" sort of thing that turns normally competent and good admins into seemingly empty and hypocritical users because they find themselves having to cut off their own tongue so that there isn't an uproar.

Myself, I'm willing to give everything another chance if indeed something happens soon. I just ask that it's not just a distraction to keep us around longer to just disappoint us again.