Conduit 2 Developer Calls for Internal Retaliation Against Author of Negative Joystiq Review

Chris writes: "Conduit 2, the sequel to 2008’s The Conduit, was released for the Nintendo Wii console in mid-late April to what can only be described as…varying reviews. Seeing wildly disparate reviews is not uncommon on the Internet, where everyone has a chance to be heard (if they yell loud enough); not everyone is going to have the same opinion of a game depending on personal preference, experience, and more. What happens when a harsh, negative review with supportive reasoning of an anticipated video game goes up? Well, heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a developer scorned."

[Echo307]

Story in a nutshell: Joystiq writer bags on Conduit 2 with very negative review. Conduit 2 developers get pissed, realize the Joystiq reviewer has a published book on Amazon, and then flock to Amazon and leave nasty reviews in retaliation.

Pathetic. If you're going to create something for the public to see (and pay for) you have to expect and ready yourself for negative feedback. Retaliation like this is just childish.

[BubbleSniper]

exactly. besides... they choose the weakest link in the chain to dev for. They should have at least done the Conduit for Xbox 360.

The game deserves a better treatment than the Wii could provide or have provided because of it's limitations.

HVS needs to go Multi and to Grow up.

[radphil]

"Retaliation like this is just childish."

Sadly there's a few gaming companies out there that are sadly going with that ideal that's somewhat similar to childish. :(

[hay]

According to Wiki, High Voltage Software's average game score is ~62, they should be used to "not great scores" or are they gonna rate Wikipedia 6/10 in revenge?

[phantomexe]

I found the game really good and i don't pick up alot of wii games now a days.

[Echo307]

I think you missed the point of the article, bud.

[TOO PAWNED]

bud is slow

[Knushwood Butt]

Bud the CHUD

[phantomexe]

Your right i didn't read it.....will i go to hell, im a bad person hold me..

[aviator189]

Haha, that's just sad.

If you release a product, you better be prepared to receive some negative press along with the good.

[xtheownerzx]

wow go writer freedom of speech!

[jidery]

Thanks for advertising the book, I just bought it!

[Armadilo]

So is the game good or bad?

[Venox2008]

game is good, really.. everything is better than in first Conduit.. and more interesting..

[blackburn10]

Has this what it has come too? Developers raging about low scores? What happened to professionalism? Many developer's games got ragged on by reviewers but they took their lumps. Now we have developers shouting and pointing fingers because the game wasn't received well.

[koehler83]

Pathetic actions from a group of pathetic people. If you don't want people to know how shitty your game is, don't publish it.

Or maybe don't make such a shitty game.

[jagstatboy]

meh, most FPS games on the Wii suck anyway.

[MsmackyM]

I'm sorry but a game would have to be a completely horrible experience to get a one star rating. I can't see the Joystic reviewer objectively rating the Conduit 2. Seems to me there were ulterior motives in the rating.