My obligatory Jeff blog. For a while I've prided myself on my Big Rigs-themed profile, since Big Rigs is the best game ever and having a profile devoted to it makes my profile the most awesome on Gamespot. But I've decided to dispense with the Big Rigs for now and, as you can see, show my support for good old Jeff by redecorating my profile with a new banner and blog header (the banner was a rushed job, don't rag on me for the quality). Call it overkill if you wish, I really don't care.

I'm trying to reserve most of my judgment on Jeff's firing as I do not know all the facts. They could have had a perfectly good reason for firing Jeff (I sincerely doubt it, but it's a very small possibility). But nonetheless I still have some thoughts on it. Primarily:

Unbelievable.

This is a completely ridiculous move, and the amount of uproar this has caused is blatant explanation as to why. Jeff was a key face of GameSpot, one of the first people they associate with the site. All of the hard working editors, developers, etc for GameSpot are all important to the site and if any one of them had their employment terminated it would be a big loss to the site. But given the amount of time Jeff has been with GameSpot, and the sheer volume of work he has put into it, I am amazed that the superiors in CNET did not foresee the enormous damage his termination would cause to the site.

Of course me getting worked up isn't going to resolve anything. Best I can do now is wish Jeff best of luck for his future endeavours, as well as Tim Tracy who is also allegedly leaving GameSpot following this debacle. And good luck to any remaining staff members, whether they choose to leave or stay with Gamespot.