Kevin-V: Personally, It's not that i'm upset that my picks didn't win. This IS a neighborhood contest after all, but that's also the problem. You can't really choose the "All-Time Greatest Game Hero" Just from members of one site. This should have been a collab thing with IGN and the like. Also, Some of the match-ups and picks ARE questionable. You really have to wonder how characters like Mario and Bonk got paired up. Some of these matches are just ridiculous. Also, this is mainly a popularity contest. If you were to have a TRUE All-Time Greatest, You would have to have different factors measured up as well. For instance, who would fare better in a fight? Who has more strategy? Which characters have contributed the most to gaming history? Which one's games were more innovative? Popularity would be just ONE of the factors. Also, I highly doubt that just having the one title would work. You would need to include others, like All-time Greatest Puzzle Icon, All-time Greatest Fighter, Thinker and the like, for those who excelled in those categorys. Besides, this isn't just a "friendly poll". There is a prize at stake and no matter what you do, people will be pissed they didn't win. And to finish this point, having such high stakes is a bad idea anyway. There are many ways to cheat at this contest, and that involves both vote-changing AND bracket-forming.
Also, we aren't "whining" just because of this. There have been far too many instances in Gamespot history where shoddy worksmanship and corruption have shown themselves, including, but not limited to, Gerstmann's dismissal due to pressure from advertisers, which promted OTHERS to leave, the freezing of union levels and emblems, which causes all unions, no matter HOW big they are, to appear as noob unions, the withdrawall of the old complete membership's 10% discount at EB Games, the shutdown of GameCenter, the crappy E3 coverage, and their increasingly ignorant reviews. And NOW? I am certainly pissed that you tell NOT JUST ME, but the WHOLE GAMING COMMUNITY "What are you going to do, leave?". Do not tempt us. We come here because we are TOLERANT of your bias, but if you continue to do the same compliant, s*** that you continue to do on an increasing rate, people WILL leave. You are not the only gaming site around. There is NextGen Wars, Gametrailers, G4TV, and a million other forum sites out there. We can blog on numerous other sites on the internet, and we can form our "unions" elsewhere as well.
You USED to be better. You USED to give decent reviews and make the community happy. But now we are pissed. And Guybrush610, mjax211, Hunter 07, HaRRicH, Vandelay16, kphantom, minoumaster and Iare not the only ones who agree.
http://nexgenwars.com/forum/wii/11292-good-things-bad-bad-things-good-lol-gamespot-7.html
http://forum.ragezone.com/f81/jeff-gerstmann-fired-from-gamespot-for-giving-a-bad-review-332948/
http://nexgenwars.com/forum/playstation-3/12838-gamespot-sucks.html