{"id":1522,"date":"2009-07-09T06:59:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T10:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/09\/when-gamers-bloggers-and-developers-need-a-life\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T13:19:06","slug":"when-gamers-bloggers-and-developers-need-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/09\/when-gamers-bloggers-and-developers-need-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"When gamers, bloggers, and developers need a life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one from <a href=\"http:\/\/playstationlifestyle.net\/2009\/06\/09\/forza-developer-using-bribes-to-skew-cnet-poll\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/playstationlifestyle.net\/2009\/06\/09\/forza-developer-using-bribes-to-skew-cnet-poll\/', 'PlayStation Life Style');\" target=\"new\">PlayStation Life Style<\/a> is a silly little head scratcher.  A CNET poll to vote for Forza or GT went horrible wrong.  Ballet box stuffing.  For shame!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We live in a very competitive world, and this is apparent in the video game industry where publishers and developers are constantly trying to get a leg up on their competition, whether it\u2019s through clever marketing or brilliant feats of engineering. But what is NOT acceptable is when a publisher or developer uses bribes to gain an advantage. Che Chou, the community manager at Turn 10, has done exactly this, and we feel compelled to inform our readers about the dishonest tactics that the Forza Motorsport developer has chosen to carry out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just classic.  The CNET poll is now closed thanks to all the shenanigans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Editor\u2019s note: After numerous complaints of cheating and in-game content being offered as payment for votes, I\u2019ve decided to close the poll. Way to ruin the fun for the rest of us, guys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.  The competition between these games is serious business, and folks are playing for keeps (or at least votes).<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one from PlayStation Life Style is a silly little head scratcher. A CNET poll to vote for Forza or GT went horrible wrong. Ballet box stuffing. For shame! We live in a very competitive world, and this is apparent in the video game industry where publishers and developers are constantly trying to get a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/09\/when-gamers-bloggers-and-developers-need-a-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When gamers, bloggers, and developers need a life.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,9,32],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-gran-turismo","tag-ps3","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}