I am writing this as a disclaimer to gameplayer.com.au as a flame bait site that has no reason to be brought up on N4G.
News is news, as many a great mind will most likely tell you. But what is really worth your time in actually thinking about? Fox news has recently come under fire for its overly critical roll in trying to defame video games, as well as anything related to them in an attempt to get people thinking of things that are not important, but hide the facts of some of the most crucial, ie. Irac war.
Why am I talking about Fox news as if it has anything to do with gameplayer.com.au?
It really doesn't even relate to fox in anyway. Or does it?
Lets just break it down a bit to get a feel of what i feel is a well intended smack in the face to the readers/views.
What makes Fox news so bad?
1.)They lie to there views.
2.)They don't collect all the info, or even both sides at times.
3.)They tend to twist things into there own opinion to make it sound like fact.
4.)They accuse persons, places, or things of wrong doing when clearly they are out of touch with reality.
5.)They bring up news that has already been dealt with possibly years ago by other news groups.
6.)They bring things up just the get people on edge and "up in arms" over the smallest of things (sensationalism)
Out of these 6 examples, can you see any of them falling under gameplayers.com.au?
If you do not see anything wrong with this so called web site, I can not call you a fanboy, or a hater, or anything game related.
This site is basically nothing worth my own, and I truly believe, the readers of N4G's time.
I am not talking as a single console fan, I am speaking as a gamer that hates being feed rubbish not even worthy of a pigs dinner.
Today, Square Enix revealed the next expansion coming for its popular MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, titled "Evercold."
Solo indie developer BeamBrain has announced the release of Guardian Cry, a new free-to-play action adventure game inspired by the SNES classics.
Claims suggest new PS4 and PS5 digital purchases may require a 30-day online check, though Sony has not confirmed any changes.
I did see this this come up as a rumor, but until stated otherwise I guess take it with a grain of salt.
If true I think it is clearly a bug. The whole point of having a primary account is that it automatically resyncs lice ses when connected to the Internet on that device. Having to make Sally log in every 30 days makes no sense.
I didn't really notice how bad they were before. I never visited the site regularly anyway. I have noticed a little sensationalism from them, however, and I'm not a big fan of that.
Good blog :)
the site is not worth reading. however, i watch all news channels, each has a different spin. in fact fox news has very little news. its prime time line up are opinion shows; oreilly, hannity and colmes, ect. just like msnbc has count down with keith olberman and cnn has anderson cooper 360 and larry king.
when opinions are tried to be passed off as facts then i have a problem with it, whether it be fox news, cnn, msnbc, or gameplayers.com
Thank you both, LJWooly and mphraze.
Your views are very much worth every reader heres time. I hope that we can get over this sensationalism story's and move onto things that have actual data to back them up.
...posted example's of when gameplayer.com did any of the things you stated. Mostly because if I wanted to see your point, I would have to visit their site, which in turn gives them a hit. You see what I mean?
If you don't show examples in your blog, you're indirectly promoting their site.
For me gameplayer.com.au died when they started posting BRUTALLY inaccurate (bordering in made up facts or direct contradictions to dev statements) "previews" of certain games (Far Cry 2 and Fallout 3 come to mind), apart from that I think its pretty obvious the very sensationalist way they have been handling certain topics (for example the flamebait title of their Ninja Gainden 2 preview)