Reviews are weird. I had a site up and it was great imo. Getting people to review was more of a challenge than anticipated. I had to realize (again) that things that come easy to me isn't easy for everyone else
I still don't fully respect the "field" but I would if a place was limited in employees. You can't review enough games by yourself because there isn't enough time to play. No excuse for a place like ign. And like I said before, this is far from the first time I personally caught ign doing shyt like this. Hello Madden 64
I been flirting with starting up a review site for over a decade now, was committed to it and wanted to include this community. When it came time to create content the members of this community was focused on "well what are you gonna make". I was offering free games and as the business evolved I'd keep whoever actually put in the work. I had the support of a few companies with the biggest being Microsoft. So when it came time to deliver, every single poster here bullshytted. Dragged their feet, had me looking stupid out here. So I tried to scramble and do a bunch of reviews myself but I couldn't fill the site with enough content by the time of the first "review" from Microsoft. They told me to get back to them when I was ready.
When I hit Microsoft back the number or email contact I had was no longer active. I decided to put the site on ice while I put my energy into a home based business. But, I hope to have the site back up by the end other year. It's part of my "yearly goal portfolio" so i will focus on that from September - December. And the reason I want to continue with it is because I know what I want from a review place and I don't get that from places like ign. I hope everyone else will appreciate what I'm trying to bring to the table 
Breh I know Phil would respond if this was the case. So why making the excuse? Hell he responds to my bullshyt and I don't have those kind of goals within the gaming sphere.I been flirting with starting up a review site for over a decade now, was committed to it and wanted to include this community. When it came time to create content the members of this community was focused on "well what are you gonna make". I was offering free games and as the business evolved I'd keep whoever actually put in the work. I had the support of a few companies with the biggest being Microsoft. So when it came time to deliver, every single poster here bullshytted. Dragged their feet, had me looking stupid out here. So I tried to scramble and do a bunch of reviews myself but I couldn't fill the site with enough content by the time of the first "review" from Microsoft. They told me to get back to them when I was ready.
I spent the next 6 month's getting the site up to the Standards I was aiming for, but finding competent co-workers is REALLY difficult. I figured that would be the easy part
I have Phil on my Twitter account but the moves I'm talking about predate Phil I believe. I contacted Microsoft (as well as many other companies) and they was really interested in what I had envisioned and gave me a number and a person to contact via email. Had dialogue. Once I came up short, I feel like they flaked on the idea because none of the contacts worked anymore. When I talked to a person eventually they had no idea of anything. That's when I fell back because that plus the lack of co-workers. But I always intended on giving it another go once I was ready... So, how do you talk to Phil? (Feel free to pm this info) people don't believe me but I chatted with Ted Leonsis (owner of AOL, wizards, caps) via Facebook a ton of times
you'd think it would be harder to reach certain peoplenikka must of used them coli tips for his resume
I been flirting with starting up a review site for over a decade now, was committed to it and wanted to include this community. When it came time to create content the members of this community was focused on "well what are you gonna make". I was offering free games and as the business evolved I'd keep whoever actually put in the work. I had the support of a few companies with the biggest being Microsoft. So when it came time to deliver, every single poster here bullshytted. Dragged their feet, had me looking stupid out here. So I tried to scramble and do a bunch of reviews myself but I couldn't fill the site with enough content by the time of the first "review" from Microsoft. They told me to get back to them when I was ready.
I spent the next 6 month's getting the site up to the Standards I was aiming for, but finding competent co-workers is REALLY difficult. I figured that would be the easy part
ah, ign!!