Jeff Gerstmann's Firing

[_skitzo_]

I really didn't want to touch of this, but after reading, post after post, and mock ups of this over and over. I would like to keep this short and sweet.
Every knows Jeff was working for well over ten years, so forth and so forth. Did they really let him go proper? Depends how you look at it, once dismissed, you are to leave the premises immediately, for him to be locked out of his office, and his items brought to the front after dismissed. My not sound all that splendid but, they did follow the rules.
Now enough about him and his office.
You salary is based on revenue, needless to say with every company. If Epic pays Gamespot X amount of dollars for ad space, and in exchange they except a high score, guess what. This has been going on for years! Way before the .com explosion and everything flew on-line. This has been going on when monthly video game magazines took off like rockets. I know many people in the industry who take kick backs to feature certain games, or products. What's the big deal? This hasn't been the best kept secret at all, if anything the worst. But now it's getting attention like this since someone got fired over a mediocre review?
You may not agree with what your employer is doing, but no one is forcing you to do it. If they are, swallow it until you find another place to work.
Take the game review in question. I saw the video review of it. He wasn't pleased, but wasn't clear on many reasons why. "The word fuck is a great word, but if used properly" Are you fucking kidding me? How did that even get approved in the first place. He seemed lost and confused during this review.

Finally I would like to leave people with this, and those at other video game sites reading the following..
Those who praise themselves as being legit, and say they "relate" to the "gamer" is just as bad as gamespot, or IGN, or 1up. You still take things from companies, you still attend the free parties and take the free flight out. Staying in the free hotels, looking through you bag of goodies. In the mail you get your monthly surprise from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Epic, Valve, list goes on and on.
Someone asked me last week, why I never made it to 1up or anything like that. With thinking twice, my response "I stay true to myself, I could care less what people think of me or my reviews, if I'm happy with them, that's all what matters"
There you have it...In short, it's sad when someone losses their job, and must be hard on his family, but on the flip side, you aren't working for a Mickey mouse review site Jeff, you knew you had to play the "game", and tried to fight the system for what cause? The world you were part of just thrived on money, you knew this, why be the hero without a cause?