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I enjoy reading The Verge but I don't believe that they're any less vulnerable to advertising influences than CNET/CBS. Their gaming site Polygon ran afoul of

by swang 14y ago

I enjoy reading The Verge but I don't believe that they're any less vulnerable to advertising influences than CNET/CBS. Their gaming site Polygon ran afoul of this http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497693 http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497693 http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/30/3575978/halo-4-avatar-costume-offered-free-from-u-k-pizza-huts#124515407 http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/30/3575978/halo-4-avatar-cost... Essentially one of their first "articles" was just a copy/pasted press release from Pizza Hut for Halo 4. When people began calling them out on it in their comments, rather than take the link down and post a 'mea culpa', they began censoring the posts and then later deny there was even a controversy because they didn't receive any money from Pizza Hut for it. Oh wait except they took $750K from Microsoft (aka the IP owners of Halo 4) to make their "teaser trailer" for the website. Some would say that it's SOP for gaming websites to just copy/paste press releases but I say if you're going to call yourself something different and do "game journalism" with ethics, you shouldn't be doing stuff like this. It makes me really think twice about any articles on The Verge regarding Microsoft.

siamore 14y ago
I used to read The Verge and i don't think I've ever seen many articles or reviews related to Microsoft shown in good light, for example even when most other sites reported Gmail active sync support being dropped as a bad move, The Verge reported that as Microsoft not supporting open standards (which was true) and in the review of the Nokia Lumia 920 the camera was rated the same as an iPad camera with the reasoning that the quality was not needed and cameras like the iPhone's were what customers really wanted tl;dr they never jump on MS bandwagons
- nextparadigms 14y ago
  You mean except the most important review of them all - the Windows 8 review, which got an 8.8 score, and was written by a guy who used to write Microsoft-related articles? The Lumia and Surface RT reviews which were written by Joshua himself were far more objective and fair, because he was ultimately right about them. Look how many people are returning the Surface now, unsatisfied with their experience with it (more than 40%).
  - siamore 14y ago
    > You mean except the most important review of them all - the Windows 8 review, which got an 8.8 score, and was written by a guy who used to write Microsoft-related articles? yes that would be one, but that does not refute what i said. >> It makes me really think twice about any articles on The Verge regarding Microsoft. I was asserting that The Verge do not seem to be partial to MS and i think i'm justified in saying that. >The Lumia and Surface RT reviews which were written by Joshua himself were far more objective and fair True but it's just not the norm.
- bikk55 14y ago
  Agreed. How is it that the most interesting comments are always the ones that get downvoted?

by swang 14y ago

siamore 14y ago

I used to read The Verge and i don't think I've ever seen many articles or reviews related to Microsoft shown in good light, for example even when most other sites reported Gmail active sync support being dropped as a bad move, The Verge reported that as Microsoft not supporting open standards (which was true) and in the review of the Nokia Lumia 920 the camera was rated the same as an iPad camera with the reasoning that the quality was not needed and cameras like the iPhone's were what customers really wanted tl;dr they never jump on MS bandwagons

nextparadigms 14y ago
You mean except the most important review of them all - the Windows 8 review, which got an 8.8 score, and was written by a guy who used to write Microsoft-related articles? The Lumia and Surface RT reviews which were written by Joshua himself were far more objective and fair, because he was ultimately right about them. Look how many people are returning the Surface now, unsatisfied with their experience with it (more than 40%).
- siamore 14y ago
  > You mean except the most important review of them all - the Windows 8 review, which got an 8.8 score, and was written by a guy who used to write Microsoft-related articles? yes that would be one, but that does not refute what i said. >> It makes me really think twice about any articles on The Verge regarding Microsoft. I was asserting that The Verge do not seem to be partial to MS and i think i'm justified in saying that. >The Lumia and Surface RT reviews which were written by Joshua himself were far more objective and fair True but it's just not the norm.
bikk55 14y ago
Agreed. How is it that the most interesting comments are always the ones that get downvoted?