GameSpot Sponsorship Pisses Off GameSpot

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5 years ago

I played soo much CoD modern warfare and World at War when I was in the Army. Hell I was playing Big Red One back in '06 when the recruiter called; when I went through MEPS I was given a copy of AA. They didn't have an Esports team when I was in but they had their own MMA tourney though; hell might be going on still. I think since not that many people view traditional media anymore they are trying to find other avenues of promotion/introduction to the military. Of course the bait and switch tactics they used with the the free giveaway a month (?) ago is the the wrong way to do it; they are still looking at internet advertisement as circa 2000.

Astarties

5 years ago

So AA was actually a really solid multiplayer game for the time. It was interesting because of the more "realistic" things they had in it. It only took a couple bullets to kill you, your guns jammed periodically, reloading a partial magazine put that partial mag back into your inventory so eventually you would pull out that partial magazine at some point after reloading enough times. I played a shit load of that game in middle school and high school.

Matrim611

5 years ago

I'm a veteran and the way that the Army/Armed Forces continues to try and recruit the younger generations or younger people in general is infuriating. Couple all of the above stuff mentioned in the video with the fact that almost any recruiter will straight up lie to you to get you to sign your life to the gov't. I was supposed to get student loan forgiveness, my recruiter neglected to mention that my credits weren't the right type of credits for that program. Something I wasn't informed about until I got to my unit and told I was deploying in 10 months. The Army can eat a bag of dicks.

DHAAS

5 years ago

Honestly i don't see the problem here. The fact is what they said was not a "join the army" ad it was saying that a member of the armed forces was given a spotlight to give his opinion on a major news sight for gaming. Also the link for the national guard esports team did not go to a recruiting post but to a description of what the streaming team is meant for. It is worth saying that gamespot is an american site and makes ad deals with many organizations, and saying that every ad deal they have made with the exception of this one has been free of political biases, represented organizations that are of high ethical standing, and has promoted things of non aggressive nature is simply untrue. I would love to hear counter points and logical arguments as to the ad was not okay because hearing things from a different perspective helps form a more educated opinion.

PhantomAC

5 years ago

If yer wearin' Slayer,.. you hump the SHIT outta hump-day!

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