Editor's Note: DIY

[rokenroleg]

Logged in to this site to reply to this. Feel special.

I think my favorite part of this trainwreck of an 'editorial' is that it will succumb to 'Daily Show' syndrome. Wherein the butt of the joke (in this case, Mr. Pitts) makes a damning comment, only to have the opposite opinion shown later down the road.

Obsidian isn't going anywhere, and they make video games. These games get advertised. This is a gaming website. These games will be advertised here. These opinions will be rent asunder.

I shall laugh.

I love the internet and the self-parody that is 'Gaming Journalism'. <3

 

[Russ Pitts]

Forgive me if I fail to be crushed by this. But thanks for sharing.

That's a pretty dismissive and sarcastic tone to take with potential customers. Does the rest of your editorial team feel the same?

There is some truth to the suggestion that everyone who passes through this site is entitled to feel as if those of us who create it and maintain it are indebted to them in some way, large or small. I'm not ignorant of this. I feel a great sense of pride and humility at being blessed with the attention and trust of so many readers and viewers who have many, many options for how and where to consume their videogaming news and commentary and yet choose to visit The Escapist. I've written and spoken at length about my gratitude and respect for those who call this their internet "home," and those feelings are genuine.

And yet I'm not a whore. My opinion is my own, and that (as well as those of the rest of our excellent team) is part of what you get when you pay for (literally or figuratively) The Escapist. Take it or leave it, Bub.

I don't believe in the ridiculous notion of a transcendent journalistic morality that suggests one should be able to divorce oneself from one's self as soon as one's name appears on a byline. I honestly can't speak to what the rest of the team here would think about someone like yourself who would publicly proclaim to not "think much of [me] at all," but for my part I don't feel obliged to think much of you either. As far as I'm concerned, that pretty much squares us.


-R

 

[krellen]

That was a far more diplomatic way of going about it, Mr. Pitts, which was all I was looking for. I don't expect the promise of a paltry $20 to make you like me (that would be ludicrous); I simply expect someone representing themselves and the Escapist as a whole to conduct themselves with a bit more grace than your last comments showed.