EGMR's Bracken Lee-Rudolph discusses polarising attitudes in gaming, and how ostracising people based on uncommon views will not help the industry progress.
Quote: "Last week, an IGN article went up about Bloodborne and how Reviews Editor, Dan Stapleton, struggled to retain interest through the grindingly formulaic gameplay, and brutal difficulty.
IGN’s own review of the game rated it at a 9.1/10; an incredible score by most measurements. Our own review gave it a 90 — from the perspective of a reviewer who has played, and loved, the past Souls games. These are hardly the only positive reviews on the internet for a game which has largely received critical acclaim, but still Dan Stapleton, a journalist in the industry for over a decade now, found little to no enjoyment from Bloodborne‘s unforgiving outlay."
EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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bracken,(the guy who wrote the article) put together a well thought out article. however, he never took the time to consider if dan stapleton was wrong in his assessment of the game - and I DO think he was wrong. I think this because stapleton wants to say the game is bad because, basically, he isn't any good at it - and I don't agree with this.
yea, there are some technical issues that I'm sure will be patched; but,I think bloodborne is a fantastic game. I haven't played a non arcade-style game (like resogun or superstardust) that I can't stop playing in quite a while. the last one that came close was farcry4 - and it's not anything near as good as bloodborne.
Interesting article. Looks like 'souls and blooborne' fans have put the fear in to these journalist. Fanboys , especially, would say just about anything to anyone who have any negative reaction to what them deem untouchable. This adds even less confidence to already skeptical reviews. Now you have to worry if the reviewer's fear backlash.
I think they should review the game to it's merit, as they see it. The fanboy will have a hissy fit, but they will still come back to see how you rate the next one if your review proved to be factual. Honesty is always the best policy. When you try to appease just to win favor, you end up trapping yourself because you will never be consistent and at many time along the way your true feeling with surface. once you loose credibility, you loose way more fans than the ones you pissed of for telling the TRUTH.