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Posted: Dec 13th 2007 2:13PM hvnlysoldr said

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Good for him?

Posted: Dec 13th 2007 2:19PM RobAccomando said

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Person of the year for writing a negative review about a game and getting fired? Ooook.

Posted: Dec 13th 2007 2:22PM (Unverified) said

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I agree with you. All of a sudden he is a hero because he was doing his job?
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Posted: Dec 13th 2007 2:33PM (Unverified) said

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you guys fail to see the point. Yes he did his job and was fired, but the fact that he refused to cave into advertiser pressure and alter his review for them is why he was fired. He was basically sacrificed for sticking up for the integrity of game journalists and to surface the problem of advertiser pressure and in some cases the company giving into them
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Posted: Dec 13th 2007 8:39PM (Unverified) said

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what limpdicks voted tmjordan down? eidos employees?
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Posted: Dec 13th 2007 2:26PM Korova Pamplona said

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XBL is awesome. Good for AG!

Posted: Dec 13th 2007 2:31PM (Unverified) said

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Um. Aaron isn't an exec and he doesn't head up Live. Greeberg is the PR Manager for Xbox. He is one of lots and lots of people on the Xbox team who have been there for 7+ years -- none of whom you've heard of. Ultimatley, Executives are pretty meaningless, as are spokespeople. It's the guys and women doing the day to day work that actually matter.

Posted: Dec 13th 2007 2:45PM (Unverified) said

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Joe, I'm sorry, but that's just a stupid comment. You give no supporting evidence to back up your point of "executives being useless". Give us detailed examples.
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Posted: Dec 13th 2007 2:45PM (Unverified) said

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It should be interesting to see who #1-3 are. I have to imagine at least one of those slots goes to a Nintendo guy, but do the others go to hardware or software people?

Posted: Dec 13th 2007 2:58PM (Unverified) said

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LOL what a sucky year we've had.

Posted: Dec 13th 2007 3:05PM (Unverified) said

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What? How can you say that? All systems had great games this year. For Wii there was Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3. Xbox 360 had Halo 3. There were also great multiplatform games like Bioshock, The Orange Box, Guitar Hero III, Rock Band. Sorry, I don't really know the PS3 stuff since I don't have one, but I know its library is getting better. Handhelds had a good year too. This has been one of the best years for gaming in recent memory for me.
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Posted: Dec 13th 2007 3:09PM (Unverified) said

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Definitely not game wise, I mean as far as who's 'persons of the year'.

Weak sauce +1
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Posted: Dec 13th 2007 4:10PM spin cycle said

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Gerstmann? What did he do exactly? He got fired. His name may be involved, but the actions that made this a story were not his.

Greenberg maybe. If he's the one who just made the call to degrade the Silver experience, then I have to take exception. If you want to sell Gold, make Gold better, don't make Silver worse.

Posted: Dec 13th 2007 4:49PM (Unverified) said

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Gerstmann warrants this...why? All he did was get fired.

Just because CNet and GameSpot rank high on the "Morons of the Year" list doesn't mean Gerstmann deserves the opposite accolades.

Posted: Dec 13th 2007 7:13PM (Unverified) said

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Bonafied 247 -- I didn't say useless, I said meaningless. As doorstops and figureheads, many of them have utility.

My main point was 1) that Aaron is not an exec, he is a PR guy who's job is mostly makign nice with the press, and 2) that for every exec on a list like this there are thousands of people doing teh real work of geting products out to customers -- and they get little to no recognition.

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