• 31Mar 08

  Ex-gamespot addict.

  I feel bad that gamespot isn't my single choice of gaming news, reviews, and videos; at a time it was. I did vist other websites but everything that was solid always came from gamespot. Well thats what I thought at least. I find myself visiting other gaming review websites, primarily Giant Bomb(dot)com but thats beacuse of Jeff and Ryan do provide the gaming expertiese/hilarity I've grown to love. I never ever really took into account other videogame website and magazine reivews to have some merit to them. I felt that gamespot was the one and only source for honest, true, quality standard gaming review and news source. It was creditibilty that gamespot had.

  The credibility gamespot HAS is tarnished. It took something rotten(Ryan Davis's, Alex Navarro's, Brad Shoemaker's and to some extent Rich Gallup's resignations) and idiotic(Jeff Gerstmann's firing) to give me a wider range of video game opinion's and news.

  Sounds like a good thing, but I feel bad I feel unloyal and foolish. Unloyal beacuse I don't really visit this site anymore. I don't listen to the podcasts and I don't watch the videos as freqently. I'm also now comparing these scores with plenty of scores of other gaming sites. I feel foolish beacuse I didn't compare scores AND reviews with gamespots own before this all happened. If something at gamespot can go wrong at gamespot(Gerstmanngate) then surely things go right at other websites. Just a thought.

  • Posted Mar 31, 2008 11:51 pm GMT
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• 30Nov 07

  Second blog, and strangly enough its about another now ex-gamespot empolyee

  Gamespot, Cnet, who ever has the job of firing and hiring staff, you shot yourself in the damn foot today. Gamespot has such a following because of its reviewers. Why would you fire one of the top reviewers, and a person who brought tons of traffic to the site with his appearances on the Hot Spot & hosting On The Spot. Gerstmann was well-liked, respected, and just plain entertaining. If the rumors are true then I can plainly see why you fired him, dollars and cents(youB1tched out cause you were afraid you were going to lose them). Well good job Cnet, Gamespot, "The Man", you ****ing did it this time, I will not re-new my subscription.
  • Posted Nov 30, 2007 3:56 am GMT
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• 26Jul 07

  first blog, keepin it simple, I love you rich gallup

  Rich, man oh man, if it was anything that kept me comming to this site, it was you man. Forget about the great reviews, gaming news, and all that awsome content, if it could be one thing for me that truly made gamespot.com a freaken gift everytime I visited it was you rich. I feel like I'm losing a friend man, don't know what jeff and ryan are going to do without you, hell what gamespot is going to do without you. Rich I'm going to miss ya but I hope you do well in your future endevors, have a great life back east, God bless you, you wife and yours.
  • Posted Jul 26, 2007 11:03 pm GMT
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