So it continues: The brouhaha around Jeff Gerstmann’s firing from Gamespot, possibly due to him giving negative reviews to games from major Gamespot advertisers.<\/p>\n
I’ll just point to Joystiq’s link collection of the day<\/a>.<\/p>\n Or actually – whatever did happen, it’s not a bad thing that everybody is reminded of the potentially problematic relation between advertising revenue and game review scores – and the backlash this can inspire if not handled properly.<\/p>\n And one of the Joystiq links discusses how the Game Rankings<\/a> average has become a benchmark – but while we can all agree how silly it is, it’s hard not to care about the numbers (80% being the lower threshold it seems<\/a>). Isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So it continues: The brouhaha around Jeff Gerstmann’s firing from Gamespot, possibly due to him giving negative reviews to games from major Gamespot advertisers. I’ll just point to Joystiq’s link collection of the day. Or actually – whatever did happen, it’s not a bad thing that everybody is reminded of the potentially problematic relation between … Continue reading “Gerstmann-Gate updates”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}