One of the comments under the Cracked.com article:
"I like this article because while I'm sure Blizzard expected to have *some* bugs at launch, and probably anticipated a few negative reviews from gamers who are also bloggers/reviewers for prominent game sites- overall I bet they factored in those reviewers would be fairly balanced even while enduring these aspects, employing accepted critical language and conventions often found in those venues. What they probably *didn't* anticipate was that one of their customers would be a raving mad columnist on the Internet's leading, high-traffic comedy site and repository for dick jokes. John wants to play your games, but he won't suck your dick like an industry shill. He had to pay for his copy, and didn't get the free T-shirt, thermos, posters, and scrotum-warmer you guys shovel out at trade shows so you'll get nice reviews in return. You can PR spin your way out of the standard, half-hearted, tit-for-tat 'The negatives were [this], but the positives were... all in all blah blah blah please keep sending us free product to test and keep our industry afloat.', but there's not much behind the scenes hey-cut-that-out-it's-not-nice deflection you can present against 'Motherfucker! This is bullshit!'"
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Date: 2012-05-17 05:04 pm (UTC)From:"I like this article because while I'm sure Blizzard expected to have *some* bugs at launch, and probably anticipated a few negative reviews from gamers who are also bloggers/reviewers for prominent game sites- overall I bet they factored in those reviewers would be fairly balanced even while enduring these aspects, employing accepted critical language and conventions often found in those venues. What they probably *didn't* anticipate was that one of their customers would be a raving mad columnist on the Internet's leading, high-traffic comedy site and repository for dick jokes. John wants to play your games, but he won't suck your dick like an industry shill. He had to pay for his copy, and didn't get the free T-shirt, thermos, posters, and scrotum-warmer you guys shovel out at trade shows so you'll get nice reviews in return. You can PR spin your way out of the standard, half-hearted, tit-for-tat 'The negatives were [this], but the positives were... all in all blah blah blah please keep sending us free product to test and keep our industry afloat.', but there's not much behind the scenes hey-cut-that-out-it's-not-nice deflection you can present against 'Motherfucker! This is bullshit!'"
Couldn't agree more.