News broke the early this week that G4TV presenter, and host of IGN's "The Weekly 'Wood & Strategize", Jessica Chobot will be a fully voiced character in Bioware's upcoming Mass Effect 3.
This is a major conflict of interest.
Chobot previewed the game as a journalist for G4TV, and now it is revealed she has a business relationship with the developer for almost a year.
The issue here is not that Chobot may have a bias towards BioWare (even though in a blog post she states that BioWare is "a company that I insanely admire").
The problem, is now we cannot trust her coverage of Mass Effect 3 (and any other game) to be objective.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor & Fallen Order are now playable on Amazon Luna thanks to a new multi-year deal with EA. Cloud gaming just leveled up.
Sadly just if you subscribe to Luna it appears. I hooked my EA account into it, which has Jedi Survivor, and it doesn't show in my Library. They don't show as a source either, so just a heads up to not let your purchasing decision be swayed as to where you pick the titles up if a bonus streaming option held any interest.
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SWTOR was a great game on a bad engine.
Agreed, SWTOR still has some of the best dialogue from any Star Wars work. I think we all miss this old Bioware the most.
Former BioWare executive Mark Darrah says "be a human being, have some empathy."
Fans don't know who is actually to blame.
Darrah throws up a hypothetical that someone might not like how an actor delivered a line. Sure, it could well be down to the actor, but it also might be down to who was directing them, how the writer asked their work to be delivered, or maybe that was the only take they got.
This line from the video though
"Maybe the CEO of the entire company really wanted his nephew to be hired as a script consultant and this guy with literally zero experience was coming in and pushing for mandatory changes"
Like others have said that seems far too specific to just be an example...
Exactly. And the crazy part about this is that the people there just doing their job and trying to make a living are the one's getting hurt and losing their jobs. I am also not a fan of targeting specific individuals. Its poor form. These are video games.
If only there was a single problem with this game, it was a train wreck waiting to crash and burn.
As usual, common sense falls on deaf ears. I mean, he thinks this article is about Dragon Age Veilguard. He rejects logic and evidence.
What possible logic or evidence can you provide to convince him otherwise.
@Thorstein
Cant expect people to see reason now a days.
@Notellin
Sure. Go ahead and bury yourselves beneath your own ignorance.
Then don't use it for the thumbnail. It's misleading on purpose to draw this reaction.
Personally, i think we should always blame and criticize the management (especially top management; like with EA - every screw up should be blamed on Andrew Wilson and his goons). They're the ones with the power, the ones who have the last say in the matter - whatever is the plot details, gameplay, microtransactions, budget and «It's ok that it's buggy and crashes constantly, release the game ASAP, we'll fix it later».
Harrasement is not ok in my book, although, nowadays, many people paint every type of criticism (whatever warranted or not) as harrasement. Which is a very narrowminded and waters down actual harrasement problems. But, i guess, it makes it easier to ignore everything bad you see aimed towards yourself.
I would also like to add, that this topic is a double-edged sword, some developers are being mean to their customers, calling them names or any sort of -isms, that happens. In that case, don't be surprised, that, when you're «firing shots», customers are «shooting back» at you.
No you don't. Everything is criticized by somebody these days. By that logic everything is bad. Thats just more fuel for the echo chamber. The way you get games you want is by supporting the types of games you want by buying them. You want more games like Astrobot? Buy Astrobot. Recommend it to others. Its not about bashing what you don't like. its about supporting what you do like. Money talks.
Absolutely, I buy my games cause subscriptions are also part of the problem. I don't criticize myself personally, but by observing criticism by others, I avoid purchasing games with problems.
No we don't. FIFA and Madden get criticized every year and the games get worse and more overpriced.
Lack of profit is the only way to do it, but people are fine buying shit games every day, just not the shit games we talk about regularly here. We distract ourselves with this stupid 'social mirage' issue and the corporations get to keep doing less and less but selling it for more and more.
Says the only guy in the world that likes vanguard, I bet you like avowed aswell huh
Empathy always has value when dealing with other human beings. This includes empathy towards the fans who feel scorned and the devs who worked their asses off.
Very few (if any) journalist is going to be 100% objective. Just because Chobot is voicing a character means little. Journalists are given freebies and incentives all the time (not to mention the various scandals we've had with publishers threatening advertising revenue for reviews scores).
I would only be concerned if Chobot did the final review for ME3 for IGN.
Video game journalism has been broken for years
Jessica Chobot has always done a good job reviewing products, and I respect her comments more than I ever would the original author of this article (who comes across as someone who Jessica rejected on a date, to be honest). She's funny, she's intelligent, and I believe she is professional enough to distance the two parts of her career. Why the hate?!?
yawn!!
I wonder how much she was paid. I hear video game voice acting pays good.
I feel that Andrea Rene should have been put into the game, not Jessica Chobot.
Not only is she gorgeous.. but I feel as though she needs to be put into the spotlight now. Jess is way too mainstream & hogs all the attention.
I like 'em both, really.. but between the two, I like Andrea the most as she's more of a gamer & actually knows ALOT about gaming. :)