Comments on: Lionhead Slams Kotaku Over Leaked Fable 2 Non Trailer

By: ,?,?p,?p,

,?,?p,?p, — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:26:42 +0000

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By: Shawn Sines

Shawn Sines — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:15:50 +0000

Well I’m not faulting Kotaku too much here.. the audience is hungry for information and if you slack off even a little traffic numbers go down which means that your audience goes elsewhere.. we suffer the same issue to some extent.

Now if they made a mistake while getting the press media from the FTP I can to some extent understand it. I have not looked at the FTP myself to see if its clearly labeled as B-roll or not. If MS did not want the video out there the best option is not to make it available, or to make it available upon request or only on Beta tape.

I don’t think the paparazzi slam was necessary though Rick. Gaming blog/news sites are not stalking these developers and making a big profit from their public behavior. We’re merely trying to drive traffic numbers, make our meager pay and hit our traffic goals by offering the visitors and readers of our sites a place the can find the news aggregated and served with our perspectives.

There is nothing really exploitive about it most of the time.

By: Strategos

Strategos — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:12:11 +0000

I can understand how sites like Kotaku help viewers learn about games without going to each individual company’s site, but still, if something is not meant to be a trailer and can clearly negatively impact a game, it is unacceptable for a site to go and release it as such. Kotaku must have something against Lionhead to go and do something this stupid.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:30:10 +0000

If gaming sites weren’t so hungry for knowledge and every leaked detail, things like this wouldn’t happen. It’s sickening, just as bad as the paparazzi who follow celebrities around.

Let companies release info at their own pace, god damnit.