http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/qj/qjnet/~3/316847478/121368Peccato, sembrava un bel titolo.
Quoto, tanto lo so che ci sono i pigroni:
Reports have come in saying that Atari has sued a German gaming site who published a negative review of Alone in the Dark (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC). The reason? Atari is reportedly implying that the review was based on a pirated Xbox 360 copy of the game.
4Players, the website that Atari is suing, published the review before the game's June 20 European street date. 4Players has contended that it obtained a copy of the game early by way of a retailer. Atari has also reportedly canceled plans to run an ad campaign on the website.
Atari also made similar complaints to other European gaming sites. Gamer.no, a Norwegian site, was asked to pull its 3/10 review shortly after it was published. Scandinavian site GameReactor was also asked to remove its own 3/10 review of the game.
Dutch gaming site Gamer.nl was also asked to remove their own 5/10 review of Alone in the Dark. Atari reportedly contacted the site shortly after the review went live, claiming an embargo until Friday.
"Our review copy was sent directly to us by Atari and [was] not a pirated copy," said Gamer.nl staffer Erwin Bergervoet. "They explicitly told [Gamer.nl] that they only let high scoring reviews break the post-release embargo date."
Atari has refused to comment on the issue. The company has a lot riding on the success of Alone in the Dark, which so far has garnered an average review score of 69 based on six reviews according to Metacritic.
The game's Xbox 360, Wii, and PC versions are slated to hit North America on June 24, with the PlayStation 3 version scheduled for Fall.
Copie pirata o no, è chiara la vera ragione delle intimidazioni. Notare il vecchio barbatrucco, in neretto. Che io sappia, poi, l'embargo è valido per i PR/editori che partecipano e sottoscrivono appositi press event, non per l'universo cosmo (come potrebbero saperlo se e come c'è un embargo?). Si comperassero i siti come ha fatto EA con Gametrailers e se la cantassero e se la suonassero in apposite trasmissioni web, piuttosto che rompere le balle a chi fa il giornalista sul serio...
Il problema non è tanto da dove è stato recensito il gioco ma se è vero o meno che il gioco sia una cagata immonda, e questo Atari lo sa bene.
Senza contare che questa strafottente tendenza a controllare i media anche per delle piccolezze come una recensione è semplicemente assurda! Praticamente pretendono una campagna di sovraesposizione mediatica a costo zero, altrimenti ti denunciano per qualsiasi ragione venga loro in mente. Sto mondo è una merda.