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Updated: Another Addition to the Kane and Lynch Saga
Destructoid Goes After the Website
by Coop
Update: The content has been removed from their website.
The epic tale of Kane and Lynch continues to grow stranger, as it appears Destructoid has posted pictures from the official K&L site out of context (can you say "inflammatory?").
As seen below, the screenshots have quotes from journalists talking about the game with stars above it (which have now been removed). Some people have said this looks like review scores, other thinks it is a design tool. None of the sites quoted gave the scores the stars listed, so what’s up? When reached for comment, an Eidos PR Representative stated the following:
“The stars are a design element to draw you to the quote. Game Informer uses a 10-point review scale, so it is obvious it is not meant to be a review score. We realized today it was misleading when Gamespy drew it to our attention, so that’s why those stars are getting pulled as soon as the UK office gets into work in the morning.”
Bad design can lead to sensationalist reporting, Eidos, so watch out. This entire situation has become a circus for websites trying to profit off of CNET not knowing how to handle the seemingly simple task of firing an employee.
So what do you think? Bad design, “blatant lies,” somewhere in the middle?
Comments
this game is getting great free publicity. you know what they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
i bet the sales will go up because people want to know what is up
Please, this is not the first time this has happened in the industry and it won't be the last. The only thing that makes it different is that Eidos got caught.
I think it is somewhere in-between. Again, realize that the people who do the advertising are not the same as the people who do the website design and are not the same as the people who make the game. Not all of this can be tied together. This kind of thing happens from time to time and it wouldn't be some huge issue if sites like Destructoid didn't decide to make it so.
Hmm. Yeah, it would make it look like it would be a score. To me, i'd just look at it as some kind of design, but that is a blurry line for me in this case. I just know when something is a design or a score. I have yet to understand what the real score is anyway. By the videos I've watched and the things that have been said, I have yet to really understand the the pack that this game can punch. I watch videos and I'm like "wow. This gameplay looks really good!" and then I read articles over other websites on the internet (just searched google) and it says that it's just not worth the time. So whats going on?
Yeah, it was a poor choice on the part of whoever decided to put those five stars near the review. It looks like a rating, and whoever decided to do it knew it looked like a rating.
But I am fed up with blogs/sites attempting to use this controversy in order to grow their membership. No one knows what happened over at Gamespot other than their internal people and Jeff Gerstmann. These sites that are running this story into the ground don't give a goddamn about journalistic integrity. They smell blood in the water, and they're circling.
Advertising companies are nothing but ploys to get people to buy the game. There is nothing more or less insidious about this than there is in using only glowing quotes from writers about movies, even if the writers are from Bumblefuck, Idaho.
Kane & Lynch is a long-planned title. This ad campaign was created months ago by people who have nothing to do with gamespot nor Jeff Gerstmann. Let's stop pretending that we're somehow dealing with the JFK conspiracy here. Chalk it up to what it is: bad timing.