The problem is the disparity between facebook and what people wanted the rift for.

They couldn't be further apart. It's like McDonalds buying your local gym. Gamers and facebook are pretty much enemies. Out of all social groups, I would say core gamers have the highest resentment of social media, and rightly so. Immediately selling out to them without any consideration for that fact raises enough concern alone.

Simply saying 'it probably wont affect it' is not enough. Not even close. 'Oh, yeah, don't worry about that angry looking honey badger over there, he hasn't attacked anyone yet, he probably wont go for you'

Take a look at youtube and google. Different company, sure, but look how google+ is completely obliterating it. You can say facebook isn't like that, okay. But who wants to gamble on it? I sure as hell don't. Because if there's one thing I've learnt over the past few years, it's that social media ruins everything. Fool me twice, shame on me.

"despite a gif found on neogaf"

Eurgh...

@garysingh34

Yes they really should. Especially when multiplayer is the only selling point of your game.

You don't think simcity should have gotten slammed for being completely unplayable?

If you sold a singleplayer game which was full of bugs that made it unable to be completed you wouldn't get any mercy from reviewers, regardless of whether or not it gets patched a month down the line.

It's a real long shot, I know. But hear me out:

Maybe- ...Maybe people think gamespot's articles are bad and that's why they're complaining?

@Paul2005

Yeah, everyone jumped ship and then it gets handed to another studio. A lot of good franchises have been doing that recently, it's a shame.

Let's just hope people like Rod are able to make new games that are as good.

"As a society, we should do all we can to make violent rampages like the one in Washington less likely"

And obviously the logical conclusion here is video games, not...you know, the actual weapons used to commit the crimes.

sadly this had quite a detrimental effect on my play through. Hard earned vehicles disappearing is quite demotivating, especially since it happened so much in GTA IV. Wish they had implemented a better system for saving vehicles in this game.

This is almost as bad as when rev3 down scored a game because of an achievement name. Gamers are tired of your political correctness crap. By all means, if there aren't any decent female characters in the game, point that out, and by all means, criticise the game for it. But don't trash up a review preaching feminism. Gamespot already posts enough articles dedicated to that. The comments recieved were abussive, but not surprising. There is a reason gamespot is dropping off the radar in terms of respectable review sites, and the highly subjective way it's articles are written is one of the reasons.

The official review is not a blog.

Big surprise, the social justice warrior who only posts articles about misogyny generates controversy when she reviews a game whose entire world revolves around crude satire and black humour.

It's almost as if gamespot knew this would happen and generate thousands of page hits.

Women are just worried that they're being replaced by their far superior digital alternatives.

Fight the good fight kojima, do it for all of us.