posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 1:42 AM
by
Endie
You'll waken the lazy sunbathers
If you want to see how lazy games writers on the web are in sourcing stories, there was a perfect example this week.
On January 26th, Zonk posted a non-story on Slashdot about John Smedley, producer at Star Wars Galaxies, releasing an open letter to SWG users on the subject of the NGE update.
The problem is that the letter was posted to the official website in 2005. November 2005.
But the lazy writers, story-hungry at all the games websites cared not a jot. They didn't read the post themselves, nor even look at the date of it. They just cut-and-pasted from Slashdot. This is something that has been on the increase for a couple of years now, but here we have the absolute worst example I've yet seen.
So we have Eurogamer, Boomtown, Gamasutra, Ve3d aand others all posting the same story, with the same quotes, within 48 hours of the Slashdot original. The fact checking dip-switch being set to the '0' position.
Shhh.. or you'll waken the lazy sunbathers