I've never actually been to Kotaku and only know them by the fact people that play games hate 'em.
Are there particular reasons why they're hated? Specific articles they've put up?
1. Slotaku is a common joke because sometimes they will post an article days or even a week after everyone else.
2. Their whole Dante's Inferno Greed stunt solidified their douchieness in a lot of peoples eyes.
3. There are a hundred more reasons, but my brain is currently blocking them out.
TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
edited December 2010
Was it Kotaku or Joystiq who had the big exclusive news about the Wii before it's launch that turned out the Austin American Stateman beat them to it (that IBM was making processor chips about three months before launch date, big deal).
Ah, they're gaming tabloids. I like that first link, especially. Good proof of concept there.
My use of gaming journalism consists almost exclusively of reviews, really. Kotaku certainly doesn't convince me to get further into it. Are most gaming journalist sites like that?
I've never actually been to Kotaku and only know them by the fact people that play games hate 'em.
Are there particular reasons why they're hated? Specific articles they've put up?
1. Slotaku is a common joke because sometimes they will post an article days or even a week after everyone else.
2. Their whole Dante's Inferno Greed stunt solidified their douchieness in a lot of peoples eyes.
3. There are a hundred more reasons, but my brain is currently blocking them out.
Know what the [UPDATE] tag is for? New information? Breaking news?
Nope.
Brian Ashcraft just changed a picture of Inafune by himself to a picture Ashcraft took with Inafune, and added his name as a co-credit to the article, so according to Gawker's own admitted pay structure, he got some of Luke Plunkett's hit-counter money just from doing that. He didn't write a single fucking word in that article, just added [Update] to the headline.
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augustwhere you come from is goneRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
This article was posted a month or two before Gabe showed up on the Sony stage at GDC.
Yeah.
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
Holy balls FyreWulff
That is some Grade-AAA ultradouche shit right there
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The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
I've actually had shit like that pulled on me when I was blogging. Back in 2003 possible 2004, I had an exclusive interview with Doug Lombardi lined up. We just had to set a date, and I was going to fucking fly out to Valve for it. Then one of our other writers just sent him an email and said, I'm all set up for the exclusive interview, here are the questions, feel free to answer them and send me the replies. The guy then posted his own article and completely fucked that trip for me. To this day I am still bitter about it, I haven't gone to Valve HQ, and even though I was news department head, nothing happened to the guy because he was a person friend of the owner of the site.
While IGN isn't anywhere near sensational as Kotaku, the fact they still do exclusives (plus the overall lack of quality with reviews in the last few years) makes them part of the problem to me at least.
Edit: That sucks, Spaniard. That's why I always felt breaking into that particular industry is impossible. Not only that but the general sense of entitlement of some people in it just rubs me the wrong way. You're writing about fucking video games. Get over yourselves.
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The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
While IGN isn't anywhere near sensational as Kotaku, the fact they still do exclusives (plus the overall lack of quality with reviews in the last few years) makes them part of the problem to me at least.
Edit: That sucks, Spaniard. That's why I always felt breaking into that particular industry is impossible. Not only that but the general sense of entitlement of some people in it just rubs me the wrong way. You're writing about fucking video games. Get over yourselves.
On the same token you could say the same thing about sports athletes and movie stars.
I don't know if you are just fucking with me, but I'm talking about people that have jobs that aren't really that important, yet they are so full of themselves and think they are the most important person alive.
I don't know if you are just fucking with me, but I'm talking about people that have jobs that aren't really that important, yet they are so full of themselves and think they are the most important person alive.
While I agree, I can more readily see why people in those jobs act that way.
That blog also reminded me how often Kotaku makes spelling mistakes. I mean, shit, at least proof read your post once, out loud to yourself before posting it.
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The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
That blog also reminded me how often Kotaku makes spelling mistakes. I mean, shit, at least proof read your post once, out loud to yourself before posting it.
Just typing shit up in a FireFox based admin system should at the very least help you catch minor spelling errors.
While IGN isn't anywhere near sensational as Kotaku, the fact they still do exclusives (plus the overall lack of quality with reviews in the last few years) makes them part of the problem to me at least.
Edit: That sucks, Spaniard. That's why I always felt breaking into that particular industry is impossible. Not only that but the general sense of entitlement of some people in it just rubs me the wrong way. You're writing about fucking video games. Get over yourselves.
I'm content just receiving games for free and offering honest opinions about them. Bonus if it's a game I wanted in the first place.
Double if I also get paid for it (I don't, but maybe someday).
I don't know if you are just fucking with me, but I'm talking about people that have jobs that aren't really that important, yet they are so full of themselves and think they are the most important person alive.
I was kinda sorta fucking with you
I knew what you meant, though I do believe that movie stars definitely have more of a right to be cocky than a video game journalist
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The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
Stumbling back across this thread, I remembered I asked a question a page or two back and am wondering if anybody ever answered it. Did anybody ever answer if Angry Joe ever got called out or somebody told EA over his idea theft in the EA contest?
That blog also reminded me how often Kotaku makes spelling mistakes. I mean, shit, at least proof read your post once, out loud to yourself before posting it.
DO YOU KNOW THAT ONE GUY LIVES IN JAPAN!? LET HIM TELL YOU ABOUT IT!
Stumbling back across this thread, I remembered I asked a question a page or two back and am wondering if anybody ever answered it. Did anybody ever answer if Angry Joe ever got called out or somebody told EA over his idea theft in the EA contest?
It's a dick move but I don't know if anyone can really do anything about it.
That blog also reminded me how often Kotaku makes spelling mistakes. I mean, shit, at least proof read your post once, out loud to yourself before posting it.
DO YOU KNOW THAT ONE GUY LIVES IN JAPAN!? LET HIM TELL YOU ABOUT IT!
Oh man, are you talking about Tim Rogers? He needs to learn to EDIT HIS FUCKING ARTICLES.
Stumbling back across this thread, I remembered I asked a question a page or two back and am wondering if anybody ever answered it. Did anybody ever answer if Angry Joe ever got called out or somebody told EA over his idea theft in the EA contest?
It's a dick move but I don't know if anyone can really do anything about it.
From the story told here, it seems like he held his own sub-contest with no prizes, then took someones idea and submitted it as his own. Then he won using another person's idea, he completely excluded them from the prize.
What's to stop that person from just contacting EA and saying hey that was my idea, he practically stole it. Here is the evidence on his site.
More or less the best site ever. Being a former contributor, though, I may be a little biased.
hahaha just skimmed through this. kotaku, what a bunch of fucking hacks. I love the out of the blue hey I live in japan posts. how the fuck does he get away with that nonsense?
Stumbling back across this thread, I remembered I asked a question a page or two back and am wondering if anybody ever answered it. Did anybody ever answer if Angry Joe ever got called out or somebody told EA over his idea theft in the EA contest?
It's a dick move but I don't know if anyone can really do anything about it.
From the story told here, it seems like he held his own sub-contest with no prizes, then took someones idea and submitted it as his own. Then he won using another person's idea, he completely excluded them from the prize.
What's to stop that person from just contacting EA and saying hey that was my idea, he practically stole it. Here is the evidence on his site.
Did he go and take the tour before the person who created the idea found out though? Cause they probably couldn't do a whole lot in that situation.
Stumbling back across this thread, I remembered I asked a question a page or two back and am wondering if anybody ever answered it. Did anybody ever answer if Angry Joe ever got called out or somebody told EA over his idea theft in the EA contest?
It's a dick move but I don't know if anyone can really do anything about it.
From the story told here, it seems like he held his own sub-contest with no prizes, then took someones idea and submitted it as his own. Then he won using another person's idea, he completely excluded them from the prize.
What's to stop that person from just contacting EA and saying hey that was my idea, he practically stole it. Here is the evidence on his site.
Did he go and take the tour before the person who created the idea found out though? Cause they probably couldn't do a whole lot in that situation.
EA could blackball Angry Joe from any future events or press privileges for being a thieving douche.
More or less the best site ever. Being a former contributor, though, I may be a little biased.
hahaha just skimmed through this. kotaku, what a bunch of fucking hacks. I love the out of the blue hey I live in japan posts. how the fuck does he get away with that nonsense?
Although I find this amusing:
The "design process" you are so non-chalantly referring to incorporates so many company facets and hundreds of thousands of lines of code that even trying to listen to a lead engineer give a simple overview would make your head spin.
taken from GJK, not Kotaku itself.
Should be a little more chalant with their own spelling and grammar, first.
More or less the best site ever. Being a former contributor, though, I may be a little biased.
hahaha just skimmed through this. kotaku, what a bunch of fucking hacks. I love the out of the blue hey I live in japan posts. how the fuck does he get away with that nonsense?
Although I find this amusing:
The "design process" you are so non-chalantly referring to incorporates so many company facets and hundreds of thousands of lines of code that even trying to listen to a lead engineer give a simple overview would make your head spin.
taken from GJK, not Kotaku itself.
Should be a little more chalant with their own spelling and grammar, first.
Hey, we never claimed to be journalists, we're just trolls. Kotaku however has some explaining to do.
More or less the best site ever. Being a former contributor, though, I may be a little biased.
hahaha just skimmed through this. kotaku, what a bunch of fucking hacks. I love the out of the blue hey I live in japan posts. how the fuck does he get away with that nonsense?
Although I find this amusing:
The "design process" you are so non-chalantly referring to incorporates so many company facets and hundreds of thousands of lines of code that even trying to listen to a lead engineer give a simple overview would make your head spin.
taken from GJK, not Kotaku itself.
Should be a little more chalant with their own spelling and grammar, first.
Hey, we never claimed to be journalists, we're just trolls. Kotaku however has some explaining to do.
Although the picture of a dictionary and definition of grammar in the headline image do exude superiority. It's just something I find amusing, is all. Kotaku is still awful.
More or less the best site ever. Being a former contributor, though, I may be a little biased.
hahaha just skimmed through this. kotaku, what a bunch of fucking hacks. I love the out of the blue hey I live in japan posts. how the fuck does he get away with that nonsense?
Although I find this amusing:
The "design process" you are so non-chalantly referring to incorporates so many company facets and hundreds of thousands of lines of code that even trying to listen to a lead engineer give a simple overview would make your head spin.
taken from GJK, not Kotaku itself.
Should be a little more chalant with their own spelling and grammar, first.
Hey, we never claimed to be journalists, we're just trolls. Kotaku however has some explaining to do.
Although the picture of a dictionary and definition of grammar in the headline image do exude superiority. It's just something I find amusing, is all. Kotaku is still awful.
To be fair, that's why I let the other guys focus on grammar, and I stuck to the asscraft weeaboo posts.
Posts
Are there particular reasons why they're hated? Specific articles they've put up?
1. Slotaku is a common joke because sometimes they will post an article days or even a week after everyone else.
2. Their whole Dante's Inferno Greed stunt solidified their douchieness in a lot of peoples eyes.
3. There are a hundred more reasons, but my brain is currently blocking them out.
Edit: http://stupidgamer.com/2008/09/26/this-is-why-kotaku-sucks-hint-its-brian-crecente/
http://greatjobkotaku.blogspot.com/
There are tons more.
My use of gaming journalism consists almost exclusively of reviews, really. Kotaku certainly doesn't convince me to get further into it. Are most gaming journalist sites like that?
See this article?
http://kotaku.com/5676403/mega-mans-creator-quits-capcom
Know what the [UPDATE] tag is for? New information? Breaking news?
Nope.
Brian Ashcraft just changed a picture of Inafune by himself to a picture Ashcraft took with Inafune, and added his name as a co-credit to the article, so according to Gawker's own admitted pay structure, he got some of Luke Plunkett's hit-counter money just from doing that. He didn't write a single fucking word in that article, just added [Update] to the headline.
Yeah.
That is some Grade-AAA ultradouche shit right there
Edit: That sucks, Spaniard. That's why I always felt breaking into that particular industry is impossible. Not only that but the general sense of entitlement of some people in it just rubs me the wrong way. You're writing about fucking video games. Get over yourselves.
I don't know if you are just fucking with me, but I'm talking about people that have jobs that aren't really that important, yet they are so full of themselves and think they are the most important person alive.
While I agree, I can more readily see why people in those jobs act that way.
More or less the best site ever. Being a former contributor, though, I may be a little biased.
Just typing shit up in a FireFox based admin system should at the very least help you catch minor spelling errors.
I should just move to reading mcvuk and industry gamers.
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Double if I also get paid for it (I don't, but maybe someday).
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I was kinda sorta fucking with you
I knew what you meant, though I do believe that movie stars definitely have more of a right to be cocky than a video game journalist
DO YOU KNOW THAT ONE GUY LIVES IN JAPAN!? LET HIM TELL YOU ABOUT IT!
It's a dick move but I don't know if anyone can really do anything about it.
edit:
Oh man, are you talking about Tim Rogers? He needs to learn to EDIT HIS FUCKING ARTICLES.
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What's to stop that person from just contacting EA and saying hey that was my idea, he practically stole it. Here is the evidence on his site.
hahaha just skimmed through this. kotaku, what a bunch of fucking hacks. I love the out of the blue hey I live in japan posts. how the fuck does he get away with that nonsense?
Did he go and take the tour before the person who created the idea found out though? Cause they probably couldn't do a whole lot in that situation.
isn't it
I never realized Kotaku was so shitty because I never go to that hellhole
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Although I find this amusing: taken from GJK, not Kotaku itself.
Should be a little more chalant with their own spelling and grammar, first.
Hey, we never claimed to be journalists, we're just trolls. Kotaku however has some explaining to do.
Although the picture of a dictionary and definition of grammar in the headline image do exude superiority. It's just something I find amusing, is all. Kotaku is still awful.
To be fair, that's why I let the other guys focus on grammar, and I stuck to the asscraft weeaboo posts.