i used to hate jeff, but what was done is wrong.

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#1 spartan----117
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COME BACK JEFF WE MISS YOU

.... well i do

subscription cancelled :D

take it GS

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#2 nickoftime8593
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i have to agree. bad move.
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#3 Sigmond
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HE was fired or quit.. Do you have definitive proof that he was fired because of the review? Simple question with a yes or no answer actually.
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#4 TimmonsP
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Eh..what does this have to do with the 360? Correct me if i'm wrong but should this not go in another place like off-topic or something?
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#5 deactivated-57af49c27f4e8
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ya i just tried to do a 1.0 review but it's disabled.
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#6 Sigmond
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It's true this should be somewhere else. And the 1.0 reviews are equal to spam that's why it's disabled. Because they're trying to cut down on spam. I mean look at all the pages a 1.0 reviews.. and all of them arn't reviews. They're just mindless "For Jeff" dribble.
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#7 eph99
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Hell, I'm going to get a subscription just so I can have the satisfaction of cancelling and if the charges go through, I'll dispute them until they are reversed.

What a joke. You don't do someone like that. i don't care who or which company - you don't dip that far into the corruption sesspool. Shame on you, GS.

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#8 savetehhaloz
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Hell, I'm going to get a subscription just so I can have the satisfaction of cancelling and if the charges go through, I'll dispute them until they are reversed.

What a joke. You don't do someone like that. i don't care who or which company - you don't dip that far into the corruption sesspool. Shame on you, GS.

eph99

Same for me.. now how bout IGN?

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#9 FuriaRi0T
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"Shacknews can confidently confirm via its own sources that Gerstmann was indeed fired yesterday from his position at GameSpot. The source declined to comment as to whether the firing was directly related to the reported Eidos situation, but the circumstances are suspicious at the least."

www.shacknews.com

Yes, he was fired... But because of the Eidos thing?... My guess is he posted his review without permission, and that's what led to the layoff. Either way, advertisement leverage in a "non bias'd" review side... F*#) you gamespot...

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#10 peachy_dagansta
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what happened.
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#11 baronOdoom
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FREE JEFF
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#12 d3c1m8r
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My subscription has been cancelled. Gamespot and CNET can stick it where the sun don't shine. Wait... there is probably something already there... but that is another story.
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#13 wii60_lukatoll
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IGN FTW, i just use gs for the boards, i never look at their reviews or news
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#14 RZArectah1073
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ok, first of all, the big deal is that Gamespot is actually owned by a parent company, CNET. So, CNET was paid to let Eidos advertise their Kane and Lynch game all over Gamespot. Because Jeff gave an honest review about how the game was terrible, the people at Eidos made sure he was fired because he gave their game a bad name. How does not worry you? I mean, I don't blame the editors in this, but if they want to keep their jobs then they if a company is paying Gamespot/CNET to advertise on their website (example: Eidos), then the editors have to give a positive review, and in some cases, skewed review of the game so that they don't anger the company and very likely get fired in Jeff's case. This questions the entire integrity of the whole site! If you don't care about supporting Jeff, then you should at least be able to realize that the reviews on Gamespot are really only going downhill from here.

Here's the story from Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/gamespot-editor-fired-over-kane--lynch-review-328244.php

Also, another article from Kotaku stated that an anonymous employee who claims to be working at Gamespot had a lot of other information about the whole deal. I'll put up the link, but not the whole thing because it's too long.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/alleged-gamespot-employee-spills-guts-on-valleywag-328797.php

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#15 RZArectah1073
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Also, it says in the second article that before a review is put, the entire editing team has a look at it and if all of them (or majority I guess) agree with it, then it goes up. So, Jeff's review was OK'ed by everyone else, but Eidos didn't like the bad rep.
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#16 Gualoh
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So I wonder how much Bungie paid GS for their perfect 10 ranking. H3 was nothing more than a polished H2.

It's nice to see that you kids are seeing corruption in one of it's most raw forms, and speaking about it though. Right now you may only see it at GS, but I promise it's everywhere. Washington, what happened to New Orleans, Vietnam, etc. Maybe this, in some way, will show young adults that our words mean something. Hopefully GS makes this right, but there is no reason to not the fight power if it's corrupt or unfair.

Absolute power (money) rules absolutley.

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#17 faisal_a3
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Bring Jeff Back!
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#18 Louis_Routledge
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It was a long time coming. Some of his reviews were just a tad biased.
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#19 ParadiseAwaits
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Gamespot SUCKS for doing this.

**** this garbage site.

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#20 soulfood4
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Jeff deserves to be fired. Did you watch his review? It was terrible he only mentioned terrible things and didnt mention how great the story was or anything. Thank God hes gone, now Gamespot became a little better.
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#21 Louis_Routledge
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Jeff deserves to be fired. Did you watch his review? It was terrible he only mentioned terrible things and didnt mention how great the story was or anything. Thank God hes gone, now Gamespot became a little better.soulfood4

I doubt that. Somebody equally crap will probably get hired just for convenience.

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#22 angilk
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GAMESPOT SUCKS NOW. i am switching to ign.....
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#23 soulfood4
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[QUOTE="soulfood4"]Jeff deserves to be fired. Did you watch his review? It was terrible he only mentioned terrible things and didnt mention how great the story was or anything. Thank God hes gone, now Gamespot became a little better.Louis_Routledge

I doubt that. Somebody equally crap will probably get hired just for convenience.

True but jeff was known, a new guy is well just a new guy. No one will care about his opinion.
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#24 tehroxxors
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Jeff deserves to be fired. Did you watch his review? It was terrible he only mentioned terrible things and didnt mention how great the story was or anything. Thank God hes gone, now Gamespot became a little better.soulfood4

Now all the reviews will be bought & paid for. What good is that?

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#25 United_We_Fall
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Gamespot SUCKS for doing this.

**** this garbage site.

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#26 GlassDominion
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Jeff deserves to be fired. Did you watch his review? It was terrible he only mentioned terrible things and didnt mention how great the story was or anything. Thank God hes gone, now Gamespot became a little better.soulfood4
he talked about how the story wasnt that great.
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#27 soulfood4
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[QUOTE="soulfood4"]Jeff deserves to be fired. Did you watch his review? It was terrible he only mentioned terrible things and didnt mention how great the story was or anything. Thank God hes gone, now Gamespot became a little better.GlassDominion
he talked about how the story wasnt that great.

I know but the story was great. And all those idiots who posted reviews for Kane and Lynch are just as bad as Jeff. I played kane and Lynch and beat it, and the story was great. People who defend Jeff are just stupid. If your worried about reviews being bought, dont go to GameSpot. But dont defend the Pilsbury Dough Boy over it.
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#28 thoma7500
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[QUOTE="Louis_Routledge"]

[QUOTE="soulfood4"]Jeff deserves to be fired. Did you watch his review? It was terrible he only mentioned terrible things and didnt mention how great the story was or anything. Thank God hes gone, now Gamespot became a little better.soulfood4

I doubt that. Somebody equally crap will probably get hired just for convenience.

True but jeff was known, a new guy is well just a new guy. No one will care about his opinion.

YOUR SIG IS SO FUNNY

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#29 pageiszepplin
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[QUOTE="GlassDominion"][QUOTE="soulfood4"]Jeff deserves to be fired. Did you watch his review? It was terrible he only mentioned terrible things and didnt mention how great the story was or anything. Thank God hes gone, now Gamespot became a little better.soulfood4
he talked about how the story wasnt that great.

I know but the story was great. And all those idiots who posted reviews for Kane and Lynch are just as bad as Jeff. I played kane and Lynch and beat it, and the story was great. People who defend Jeff are just stupid. If your worried about reviews being bought, dont go to GameSpot. But dont defend the Pilsbury Dough Boy over it.

I don't think they are defending Jeff so much as they are defending the way he was fired. This is how i see it.

Jeff has had his ups and downs (my favorite thing he did was the marathon on Mario Galaxy), he seems to have upset everyone here at Gamespot once or twice for negatively reviewing a game that deserved a better score. Everyone has called for him to be fired every now and then.

Now he reviewed a game that, from everyone i know that has played it, and other review sites is terrible. He finally made a review that people can agree on. But Eidos gave too much money to Cnet and Gamespot advertised it to be amazing, but the review said otherwise. He got fired because he disagreed with the boss and didn't give it a higher score. That is like Nazi Germany where if you didn't do what they want you were killed.

People are realizing with this that GS reviews cannot be trusted. How would you like to lose your job for speaking your mind

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#30 adam-99
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[QUOTE="soulfood4"][QUOTE="GlassDominion"][QUOTE="soulfood4"]Jeff deserves to be fired. Did you watch his review? It was terrible he only mentioned terrible things and didnt mention how great the story was or anything. Thank God hes gone, now Gamespot became a little better.pageiszepplin

he talked about how the story wasnt that great.

I know but the story was great. And all those idiots who posted reviews for Kane and Lynch are just as bad as Jeff. I played kane and Lynch and beat it, and the story was great. People who defend Jeff are just stupid. If your worried about reviews being bought, dont go to GameSpot. But dont defend the Pilsbury Dough Boy over it.

I don't think they are defending Jeff so much as they are defending the way he was fired. This is how i see it.

Jeff has had his ups and downs (my favorite thing he did was the marathon on Mario Galaxy), he seems to have upset everyone here at Gamespot once or twice for negatively reviewing a game that deserved a better score. Everyone has called for him to be fired every now and then.

Now he reviewed a game that, from everyone i know that has played it, and other review sites is terrible. He finally made a review that people can agree on. But Eidos gave too much money to Cnet and Gamespot advertised it to be amazing, but the review said otherwise. He got fired because he disagreed with the boss and didn't give it a higher score. That is like Nazi Germany where if you didn't do what they want you were killed.

People are realizing with this that GS reviews cannot be trusted. How would you like to lose your job for speaking your mind

ameni always trusted jeff's reviews, but with him gone all htere is is alex. the rest kinda suck. that is the stupidest reason to fire someone ihave ever heard of.
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#31 GlassDominion
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[QUOTE="GlassDominion"][QUOTE="soulfood4"]Jeff deserves to be fired. Did you watch his review? It was terrible he only mentioned terrible things and didnt mention how great the story was or anything. Thank God hes gone, now Gamespot became a little better.soulfood4
he talked about how the story wasnt that great.

I know but the story was great. And all those idiots who posted reviews for Kane and Lynch are just as bad as Jeff. I played kane and Lynch and beat it, and the story was great. People who defend Jeff are just stupid. If your worried about reviews being bought, dont go to GameSpot. But dont defend the Pilsbury Dough Boy over it.

and your opinion isnt fact.

a review is an opinion not a fact. Jeff obviously hated the story.

get over the fact that he can have an opinion too.