Should? No. I think it’s a stupid practice. Unfortunately, we have to deal with reality, and reality is that ‘gaming journalism’ is some retarded inbred offspring of writing where basic j-ethics like not accepting things from your source for preferential treatment don’t exist.

judging by the sales, no it did not.

And what everyone else with common sense is saying is that real journalists, not gamers playing pretend, know that discretion with sources is a vital part of the job.

I’m really kind of impressed you have a job, and that kotaku clearly doesn’t have any kind of management.

There is certainly a healthy amount of whine in there along with the explanation.

ok so you are arguing that the author basically doesn’t understand that video game reviews = an extension of the PR industry, got it

wow sorry I bothered replying in the first place, you’re an idiot

is it that hard to think this out

yup, and anyone comparing this to any other kind of journalism is just outting themselves as an idiot.

you’re arguing whether or not developers should do that, and totally ignoring the statement about whether or not the reader benefited from this move.

Right? This moron seriously thinks he cracked Watergate or something.

Right?

It’s also not Bethesda’s job to supply Kotaku with anything, yet here we have one whiny entitled writer who doesn’t even understand his own industry

judging by the blacklist, it seems they’ve done a much better job at doing that, while still having killer sales

Ethics in gaming journalism my dick. That entire phrase is a farce.

How can someone be so unaware of the video game review industry??

The entity that controls the news source does, and that’s the developers.

The black out hasn’t hurt Fallout sales one bit.

it’s not harmed fallout 4 in one bit, and there are more than enough outlets willing to play ball that losing Koatku doesn’t even hurt them.

this is the entire basis of video game reviews and news.