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Editors Get an Earful

Posted by Zonk on from the its-fun-when-people-tell-you-what-to-think dept.

Gamedrool.com (via Kotaku) has the text from a letter to Gamepro from 2001, sent by then-president of 3DO Trip Hawkins. It's a hilarious look at what kind of flack you can get for offering up an opinion in a public venue. From the article: "I would hope you can recognize that I do not love all my children equally and can be objective about both good and bad features in a game as well as games that are of quality and those that are not. I do not send messages like this to you after every review. But this happens to be a game that I have played all the way through and beaten on all difficulty levels and I know the game intimately. I also have seen the profound positive effect this game has had on my children. "

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  1. Re:Holy Crap by Squatchman · · Score: 3, Funny

    I suppose this means that some games are so bad that you can't buy them a good review?

  2. Eh, it's GamePro by ayersrj · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any magazine that ranks 1 through 5 with different levels of colorful smileys and has JD Roth from Fun House reviewing the latest games probably doesn't deserve anyone's time or money to begin with.

  3. I wish 3DO still existed... by trawg · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... so I could stop buying their games

  4. RAR, TRIP HAWKINS WILL CRUSH YOU by ArmpitMan · · Score: 3, Funny
    And do not patronize me by telling me the reader is the customer--your real customer is the one that pays you your revenue. And it is game industry advertisers. If you need to be able to be constantly negative you need to accept that you are like a parasite that is killing its host.

    Man, and to think -- EA didn't really start being evil until after Trip Hawkins left.