I don't give a crap if Matt C. is allowed to say it or it, I'm more concerned with what it is he DOES say. Fine if he's got NDA or restrictions or whatever. But don't circumvent those with loophole hype tactics because you've got nothing better to say, and you just want to write SOMETHING to get some traffic to your blog. If we're going to pretend that journalism now encompasses a fake popularity contest between the other IGN editors, then I hope the entire website fails in the next 5 years.
And when Ubi Soft tells us "we have 12 games in development," and then it turns out 9 of those are ports and the other 3 are 1.5 versions of crap we've already had, then it goes from sounding somewhat cool to a total shafting. If you're going to sit there and tell me Matt is allowed to drum up this kind of hype, then you better be happy when Ubi Soft goes from giving us a potential original game - a new Prince of Persia - to a rehashing of a year old game.
He's done the hyperbole thing in the past. He even acknowledges that he does it all the time in this post.
If there's actually new stuff in the pipeline and not something I've already played before, except now I wave the 'mote instead of hitting B, then I'll give him some more credit.
The Wii isn't the PSP, and I get the feeling that half the time I hear about "unnamed games from unnamed sources," it's a way to cover the fact that what's being discussed isn't worth worrying about to begin with.
Edit: THe more I think about this, the more I see eye to eye with your points. But the fact remains that I'm tired of this yelling-fire-in-a-theatre kind of tactic. If you're going to Perrin Kaplan it up every other time you update your blog, I'm going to stop listening to you. At some point I'm going to take into context how you are saying something rather than simply what it is, and once that is the case, that opens up a lot of possibility of things that are going to piss me off.
Topic: Matt C. teasing again (Read 24607 times)
