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Should game journalists be subjected to law and game companies anti-bribary??
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Nobody cares if you warn us. No one wants to hear shitty, fake takes. Period. Waste of bandwidth.
Accepting money to stream isn't the same as misrepresenting the product. Misrepresenting the product is wrong, not being paid to stream a game. The act of merely streaming the game doesn't attempt to directly persuade anyone to do anything. Misrepresenting the experience by, say, attempting to falsely explain away or egregiously minimize faults, or making inaccurate comparisons to competitors' titles to attempt to persuade the audience those titles are inferior? That's misrepresentation for financial gain. That's wrong. That's also completely legal here in America to a ludicrous degree.
No doubt consumers are dumb but you know what doesn't help? Marketing layers that are used to engage absolute bullshit to sell packages of the next shitty royale game.
It may not be illegal but it lacks ethics which is fine honestly I mean look at this site. They tried to sell us VPN protection on the account of "DDOS" attacks. That being said the entire industry is trashy. It's actually worse than Adserver type marketing.
Ir's like the 80's again with game crashes like it even feels the same the only difference is we can actively watch and discuss it from the far ranges of the net.
You can both call on fellow consumers to be more prudent while condemning shitty marketing practices just the same. They aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the two don't interact in any way in terms of ethical or practical acceptability.
EDIT- @Wargfoot just saw your post about the laws limiting speech, and I understand your sentiment. However, fraudulent speech aimed at misleading others for financial gain isn't speech worth protecting, much like blackmail or other forms of unprotected speech.
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I agree; most consumers should be more prudent. But getting something like a consumer base to do something consistently is like, as they say, "herding cats." Only, these cats live hundreds or thousands of miles apart and have never met one another. You even put such cats in the same room, you risk altercations between felines.
I don't advocate government involvement out of a naive belief the government has its citizens good in mind 100% of the time. Rather, out of practicality: consumers won't organize themselves in any meaningful way, so if our true goal is to eliminate both the conman and the conned, approaching it via government intervention seems to be the most realistic way to go about it.
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Why does it matter if reviewers take money/gifts/bribes or not? Does it sway your own buying decisions, or is this more of a "looking out for the stupid people" kind of thing?
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
It amazes me how quick people say, "We need a law for this!", when in fact, we just have to enforce the laws already in place. Opinions are protected by the first amendment of the US Constitution. Right, wrong, inflammatory, or otherwise.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
The law is pretty clear with regards to bribery. Taking anything of value or gaining an advantage for performing your job improperly is against the law. Now, whether or not someone can prove they've done that or cares enough to prove it/report it is another story. I can't imagine may people would take it that seriously but I've been surprised before, however it doesn't change the fact that it's illegal.
Naturally, there's a lot of grey area. So strictly speaking, if a reviewer receives financial compensation to deliberately give a good review, then that is bribery and therefore illegal. (Fact check me if anyone can be bothered, but I'm confident that's how it works?)
If you haven't already guessed though, I am in no way, shape or form a lawyer or in a law-based job, my information comes from the brief research I've done and what I think is clear logic. If you haven't already, take it with a healthy dose of salt :P