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Driv3r Reviews. Were PSM2 & XBW honest? (Part II)
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jamiej
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:28 pm    Post subject: |

Bloody hell-we got noticed...
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HailToTheKingBaby!
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:31 pm    Post subject: |

jamiej wrote:
Bloody hell-we got noticed...

Yeah, if the articles accurate it sounds like it's been noticed by Future and possibly Atari too..

Spong wrote:

With a discernible note of despair in his voice, Tim Weaver, XBW editor, declined to explain the situation.

However, if Future fails to extinguish the early flames of the scandal, the implications for the games magazine sector could be dire…

Atari declined to comment on the issue when contacted today.

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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:35 pm    Post subject: |

HailToTheKingBaby! wrote:
they've even used the brown paper bag stuffed with money graphic someone posted here (didn't someone on here make that - did spong get permission? )

No, I'm sure I saw that posted on rllmuk before this thread started, I think anyway.
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:46 pm    Post subject: |

It was posted on gamestyle before here too. I wonder what Steve will say about this topic being used by Spong?
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HailToTheKingBaby!
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:49 pm    Post subject: |

SillySprout wrote:
It was posted on gamestyle before here too. I wonder what Steve will say about this topic being used by Spong?

Kinda ironic ain't it? Forget Future stepping in, he'll probably delete it himself now..
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:53 pm    Post subject: |

I love the fact that you can't copy and paste Spong's material (you have to actually write it out on a post if you want it to get on here, as a pop-up window comes up telling you to get it "licensed" if you try to C+P), but they see fit to lift stuff posted on here without providing a link to it!!

The sheer hypocrisy!!

Anyway, this is bad for Tim Weaver, as he has always seemed like a good guy, particularly when he was running N64 mag.......appears to be at the end of his tether at the moment though. I wish he'd come on here and say what was happening. Future seem to be battening down the hatches, but there must be some kind of turmoil within and questions being asked.
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pieman
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:54 pm    Post subject: |

Another intresting point I have read in MVC today is that Warner Bros are going to charge higher royalty payments to games using a film licence that don't score more than 70% in reviews....

I think we can all see the problems with that, and as Alison Beasley of Lincoln Beasley says (no I haven't heard of them either)

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Will undoubtedly mean that some journalists and magazine publishers will be heavily pressurised into giving 70+ socres - big IP (intellectual property) sells magazines. It's not inconveivable to envisage agreements between companies that give coverage (front covers, demos, etc) in return for high scores

so could this get worse berfore it gets better?

I am glad I don't subscribe or buy any games magazines any more, I relasied when I got a copy of PC Gamer which was missing 50 pages that I should stop the sub as I cba to ask for a new copy...)

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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:59 pm    Post subject: |

Yo pieman there was a topic on that already.

Quite a while back though
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pieman
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:01 pm    Post subject: |

whoops, i did read all of this but i have aged about 5 years since the start.....

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jamiej
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:03 pm    Post subject: |

i like to think we are all part of something...
Viva la revolution!!
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geff
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:04 pm    Post subject: |

The reason why spong don't let you copy stuff off there website is because I informed them a while back that another website (i shall not mention) was directly stealing there news... I mean absolute copy/paste.

They were very kind to me and sent Pro Evolution Soccer 2 through the post to me to say thanks.

I'm sure the Guys at Spong have used this thread in a way to promote the very cause of it. After all the bigger and wider spread this thread gets the better in my opinion. I'm sure they aren't "stealing" it for there own gain and they had the decency to state where they quoted it from.
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:04 pm    Post subject: |

that was in last weeks MCV get with the times pieman.
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:06 pm    Post subject: |

Spong wrote:
With a discernible note of despair in his voice, Tim Weaver, XBW editor, declined to explain the situation.

No, it's because he's shitting himself that's why. He, along with Future weren't expecting this, hell we're 'just a forum' after all.

2 Xbox sites have got it up, Eurogamer & Gibiz have both mentioned it & Spong is also making a big deal out of it. Not to mention the countless discussions about it on message boards. I can't wait to see what Future say, if anything, about all this.
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pieman
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:06 pm    Post subject: |

sorry i don't get MCV tell a couple of weeks after a friend has read it...

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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:08 pm    Post subject: |

Eighthours wrote:

I love the fact that you can't copy and paste Spong's material (you have to actually write it out on a post if you want it to get on here, as a pop-up window comes up telling you to get it "licensed" if you try to C+P), but they see fit to lift stuff posted on here without providing a link to it!!

The sheer hypocrisy!!

Edit: Mike

Do not copy and paste stories from other sites. They don't like it. For the conspiracy theoriests out there - yes, I have mentioned this before and ripped out copy+paste jobs
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