I'm honestly struggling to get my head around just how badly MCV have handled this whole shitshow. The sensible approach would have been to get Wainwright to write a response to the article dealing with any uncomfortable issues it may have raised. Considering the threat of legal action supposedly came from MCV as a company and not from Wainwrights own lawyer its reasonable to assume that the senior staff at MCV felt getting the lawyers in was a reasonable response and somehow didn't anticipate this sort of backlash which is utterly bewildering to me. The actions of MCV turned what would have been a minor enough story in the grand scheme of things into a big story and has practically destroyed Wainwrights professional reputation. She could easily be accused of being naive in her actions as she is relatively new to professional journalism but the senior staff at MCV like Ben Parfitt and Michael French have been around long enough to know better and should never let a situation like this develop.
Dave Cook was the other writer mentioned by name in the original article and his reputation hasn't suffered the same sort of damage because he basically faced up to it relatively quickly, admitted he fucked up and tried to move on.
Why don't they bring back something good instead? A new Blast Corps could be cool. Hell, I'd prefer a new Mr. Pants game for Windows 8 tablets over the return of the wretched Killer Imstinct series.
@DoctorWelch: There may have been a perception out there that Zynga was on the wane in some circles but if you look at their stock price on Yahoo then it was still strong until after the executives under investigation dumped their stock. The real problem is that the execs were able to push forward the date they could sell stock to before their Q1 results were made public. From the outside it looks an awful lot like they saw the preliminary Q1 results and offloaded their stock based on the fact those results would be received negatively.
Well its progress I suppose but tying your purchases to the console they were bought on instead of using some sort of Nintendo account seems pretty backwards compared to the SEN, Steam, XBL, iTunes etc. especially considering just how much Nintendo love to redesign their handheld consoles. I stopped buying stuff on the Virtual Console ages ago as I have very little confidence in being able to keep those games if I upgrade to a Wii-U later this year. Transferring your purchases from a DSi to a 3DS works but they need a much better system for Wii to Wii-U transfers.
So what happens to those of us who bought these games on PSN? I have Motorstorm on my PSP so does this mean I can't delete it as there will be no way to download it again?
This story has got me wondering how Activision will end up handling the jump to next gen. If they go for a two year cycle again then in theory both Sledgehammer and IW could release a Call of Duty in 2013 which would possibly be the last Call of Dutys aimed at the PS3/360 generation. Maybe IW have made their last current gen Call of Duty and will now embark on a 3 year cycle for the first Nextbox/PS4 Call of Duty while Sledgehammer round out this gen of Call of Duty in 2013?
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