What a day in the online gaming community it was. There was an amazing showcase of indie games, the Triple-I showcase, PlayStation announced more PlayStation Plus games, and an insider blew up the place while having a little spat with a major publisher. All in a typical days work online right? I think it’s time to take a moment to recap on that last part and reiterate what we do here at Gamer Social Club.
Early today insider Jeff Grubb spoke on a podcast about EA Motive. The day before it was announced EA Motive was moving to the Battlefield team moving forward as well as working on the previously announced Iron Man game. Interesting news, but nothing crazy. Well Grubb went on to say that Motive, the developer of the Dead Space Remake was busy at work on a Dead Space 2 Remake but it was cancelled because of poor sales of the first game.
Dead Space publisher EA was very quick to come out and say that this is unequivocally false. “We don’t normally comment on rumours but there is no validity to this story.” were their exact words. But Grubb doubled down afterwards,essentially saying EA is lying.
“I give you my permission to believe EA if you want, but whenever a company says ‘that isn’t true’ but they don’t specify which part of the story they are talking about, well... yeah.” says Grubb
Now whether you choose to believe EA or Grubb is totally up to you. As is the case with the majority of things like this,the real answer is likely a mixture of both. But that’s not really my point or what I want to talk about here. What I want to talk about is why these types of things shouldn’t be the focus of conversation and people need to stop entertaining these things, and reiterate why we definitely won’t.
First let me just say that I get it to a degree why its news. Basically every major outlet reported on Jeff Grubb’s comments. He is a fairly reputable person and has had many things right. But he’s had plenty wrong as well. No insider is right 100% of the time. Hell most of them arent right 50% of the time. And in the world of podcasts and people getting fame for just saying outlandish things, it’s become more and more common for people to just make stuff up and get some buzz around them. I’m not saying Grubb is doing that here, he doesn’t need the publicity. I’m sure someone told him this information, but that doesn’t guarantee it was legitimate.
Rumours and speculation get clicks. It draws eyes and its quite easy for someone to use them to boost their views on their podcast or get more clicks to their website. And getting clicks or views is important. The more views you get, the more opportunities that open up. I can speak first hand running this website, the more views we get the more likely a publisher is to notice us and open the door to review copies and previews and literally everything we as a website need to grow. That is massive for a new website looking to gain a foot hold in a very competitive space.
Which is exactly why I wanted to talk about this subject. We refuse to report on these things because we feel the integrity of our site is more important than clicks. I’d rather us grow because our readers trust us, not because we might have click bait gossip. I’ve personally already been told some juicy things that I could report on that would have brought us all kinds of eye balls. They are vague things that could be spun a hundred ways and cause a giant stir. But it would hurt our budding relationships and turn us into gaming TMZ not a reliable place that gamers want to come to for content.
And that’s just who we are here at Gamer Social Club and how I will continue to run this site. It might not make us popular over night and that’s okay with us. Your trust is more important than some extra clicks. We hope you see that and we hope you continue to put your faith in us to deliver what you want. Gamers talking games.
