Game Informer article scans removed

Brother None

Brother None

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Today (after several notices over the weekend from Bethesda asking us to remove the scans) we were contacted by Game Informer with the following request:<blockquote>Please remove all scans of Game Informer Magazine from your website. This is copyrighted material, and legal action will be taken if these scans are not promptly removed from your website.</blockquote>Both the scans and the transcript of the article have now been removed from No Mutants Allowed. We refer non-American users with nowhere to turn for copies of the article to Google.
 
:roll:

Indeed, like a few scanned pictures are such a big problem..

Still, like i said in the other thread, no harm done. Thanks again for the effort of bringing the scans to the attention of those of us who didn't had any means to acquire the magazine.
 
 
Boo, boo I say!
A bit of a silly move to restrict access to the only information available to the USA. Especially since a shitload of these scans survive across the internet.
 
I'm sure they have enough room in there for two. Have to get the subscription count to stop falling somehow.
 
I understand why an exclusivity deal would help a gaming publication, but I do not understand how it could help a major developer such as Bethesda. What did Bethesda gain in giving exclusive rights to a US only publication, in comparison to giving (selling) rights to a major internet site that would be accessible all over the globe? Or aren't Gamespot and others big enough to reveal this sort of information? And what interest does Bethesda have in the scans spreading around the internet?

I mean.. is it about the money? Do gaming publications pay big bucks for exclusive rights on half finished games? Big enough that Bethesda would care?
 
I think print mags make gaming people feel more important, even though none of them, literally, has the coverage of a site like Gamespot. But, y'know, they feel like "real journalism" is covering your game.

As for exclusives; exclusives usually mean the company is assured to get a positive view of the game in the preview.

PS: stop the dick-jokes.
 
Saved to harddrive!

Bethesda and Game Informer think they can silence the internet?! Viva la Revolution!


For Freedom!
 
Perhaps Bethesda have already bought some awards from Game Informer, requiring some exclusivity.
Gotta be able to print "voted Game of the Year 2008!" on the box, ya know..
 
Hey

Watch out. They may shoot the nuclear engine in your car to get those chips off your shoulders or break out their nuclear tipped slingshot rifle and blow you up. :silly: Quick, drink the water from the toilet for health. :eyebrow:

My friends, Fallout is over. If we want to be mad at someone, it should probably be Herve. He's the one that canceled Van Buren and sold the license them.
 
Brother None said:
I think print mags make gaming people feel more important, even though none of them, literally, has the coverage of a site like Gamespot. But, y'know, they feel like "real journalism" is covering your game.

As for exclusives; exclusives usually mean the company is assured to get a positive view of the game in the preview.

PS: stop the dick-jokes.
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Yep. Deals have been known to include issues like 'Review must be frontpage material, at least 5 pages long and a rating of at least 9/10', according to one Dutch gaming magazine that did not want to partake in those deals.
 
Well, I can understand Game Informer's side of it. I got a free subscription to it last year for buying something at gamestop or something. Kinda a low quality gaming mag really. Like Gamepro but without the unbearable incompetence.
I mean it ok, but I'm a bigger fan of PC Gamer (why they didn't get the article I don't know. Something to do with it being multiplatform maybe?)
Anyway, the point is that the big selling point of this month's issue is the Fallout article. Posting it on a major fan site for the game might really hurt their sales. You post a big article on the article, fans go out and buy it to find out for them selves in case your post was biased. You post the actual article, why waste money on the mag? If you reposted those pages next month after the next issue comes out, I doubt they'd give a damn.

Now, why bethesda was the first to react and bitch about it. No idea. At least none that doesn't edge on crazy conspiracy theory.

Here's an interesting thought though. Of all those other sites that still have links to the article, how many others have been contacted and dropped their links? If the answer is "not many" that says alot about the value they're putting on NMA in regards to fan traffic and influence power. It also says something creepy about Bethesda. If they were the first to contact you and not the actual magazine then that means that they're keeping a close eye on what's going on here. (insert whatever malignant motivations you want here)
 
thenightgaunt said:
I mean it ok, but I'm a bigger fan of PC Gamer (why they didn't get the article I don't know. Something to do with it being multiplatform maybe?
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It's basically a console port. The screens shown in Game Informer, for example, are console shots.
 
thenightgaunt said:
Now, why bethesda was the first to react and bitch about it. No idea. At least none that doesn't edge on crazy conspiracy theory.
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Bethesda seems obsessed with keeping the information flow as slow as possible, which is just insanely stupid.

thenightgaunt said:
Of all those other sites that still have links to the article, how many others have been contacted and dropped their links?
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None of them have dropped it so far, 'cept qj. Dunno if they've been contacted.
 
Man Bethesda are a bunch of assholes. They are the biggest assholes I know, it's one thing after another. I first started taking notice after their Xbox 360 downloadable content.
 
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