I don’t want to inteview someone that’s turned off by the fact that we’re unbiased. I would rather not interview someone that expects “favors” for the time.

So yes, it’s worth while to let people know what’s going on in the Industry. If he finds it a slap in the face then maybe that will help him realize exactly how users react to being mocked on a show build by those listeners.

Like I said, I respect him for putting the effort into doing weekly podcasts - it’s a lot of work. However, I also see a firm respect for those that listen because without them you’re just talking into a mic to yourself.

I’m not really angry about this. I just don’t agree with what you have done here. The timing and reasons seem wrong to me.

B) Since when does journalism mean having to comprise the news because of interviews, gifts, contacts, or other connection with a subject? Isn’t that called selling out?

We comment on and report the gaming news. If you need sellouts, look to the hundreds of other industry ad driven sites out there.

I find the exact opposite to be true. If everyone we had contact with caused us to not point out the flaws in some of their actions we’d be a very biased set of sites.

Has Major Nelson really been so “bad” that we don’t want anything to do with him anymore? Did we have to follow the bandwagon led by other sites? I doubt if he would consider giving this site another interview if he read this.

When I say this site, I am considering that 2old2play and Gamestooge to be one and the same.

I doubt he is compensated monetarily for it (directly at least), but you know that if he wanted to leave he would “negotiate” a better deal.

And, I’m sure he gets to meet more people and other developers based on his podcasts success which helps bring in even more listeners.

Plus, by doing it as an independent project, if he moved to another company he could start up another podcast and people would already kinda know where he’s going with the direction.

However, that doesn’t change my opinion that you should respect your audience a bit more, mocking them on the show THEY are listening to isn’t exactly a great PR move.

If you don’t agree, giving your own intelligent response is slightly better than mocking, don’t you think?

What is it with people demanding that everything should be free on XBLM? Buying an XBox and a game doesn’t entitle anyone to anything more than what you’ve paid for. And if you don’t like a piece of content, or think it’s too expensive, DON’T BUY IT!

Everything else works that way, so why shouldn’t it with video games as well?