Biased Article

[packerfan8675309]

Was it just me or was game informer really biased and on neversoft and activison's side during the guitar hero 4 article. they kept talking about all the bad features for rock band like the "tricky green hit" and they talked of how guitar hero 4 would totally blow everyone out of the water. they ignored the fact that guitar hero 4 is essentially ripping off rock band and how guitar hero 3 was not really that good. their excuse was, we were learning the mechanics and stuff. come on now, what is there to learn, you just did the same thing as guitar hero 2 except with online and battle mode which is questionable. well i vented, i feel better now.

[raging poodle]

They make nice with WHOEVER is granting them an interview and information.

[Sgt_Rok]

The Game Informer article, like all Game Informer cover articles, are biased as they were paid big bucks to do so. Game Informer is owned by Gamestop who cares more about making a buck from advertisement sales and game sales then slamming a game from one of the largest game distributors in the world.

[shadebug]

that being said, let's not discount GHIV, it does look to be a huge leap in the functionality of music games in general and we can only hope that HMX can keep up and surpass it

[Phane7]

that being said, let's not discount GHIV, it does look to be a huge leap in the functionality of music games in general and we can only hope that HMX can keep up and surpass it

I'd agree with your point if I felt like Activision was going to try to fairly compete with Rock Band instead of trying to force them out of business by making all their instruments incompatible.

[888091]

i hope it DOES blow rock band out of the water. dont get me wrong, i have no problems/issues with rock band. but if GH4 really does blow RB out of the water, that just means we'll have an even better game to play.

[TuesdaysGone]

I'd agree with your point if I felt like Activision was going to try to fairly compete with Rock Band instead of trying to force them out of business by making all their instruments incompatible.

Actually, couldn't Harmonix one-up Activision by just making BOTH GH4 symbols the green drum on Rock Band, thus giving people an incentive to get both? That would screw Activision over... their only hope is to keep talking **** about RB's instruments.

[BetterSandw1ch]

The Game Informer article, like all Game Informer cover articles, are biased as they were paid big bucks to do so.

This. However, The Guitar Hero article stuck out to me not simply because of it's bias towards GH, but the decidedly negative bias against Rock Band. There were quite a few underhanded jabs at RB that struck me as very petty, and a few quotes that shouldn't have made their way to print. I don't care if the article plays up the features of Guitar Hero - it's how a preview is supposed to work - but it shouldn't attack the competitor.

[an1m051ty]

The Game Informer article, like all Game Informer cover articles, are biased as they were paid big bucks to do so. Game Informer is owned by Gamestop who cares more about making a buck from advertisement sales and game sales then slamming a game from one of the largest game distributors in the world.

Not really true, about the ownership I mean. They have a partnership to promote the magazine that way. In turn Game Informer has like coupons and such for GameStop. They even had trouble with getting advertising a while back because advertisers assumed the magazine was free - GameStop employees would push the discount membership card and say you get the magazine subscription free... and it was supposed to be the other way around.

Their pitches have changed recently, probably to avoid breaking off the contract or whatever.

[Apples]

They make nice with WHOEVER is granting them an interview and information.

This sums up the thread. If someone is granting you inside information/interviews that are going to directly improve your standing/sales, badmouthing them would be a disservice.

Would you bite... the hand the feeds you?