Eventhubs censoring posts that are negative about Killer Instinct

lol
martyrdom is a bitch

You’re crazy…this is the internet man. People don’t like having sense. Cmon…good joke man…good joke. :wink:

I use eventhubs because I think it’s still an excellent source of fighting game news, nothing more. I don’t really care too much about the comments.

However…

This is pretty dumb, why wouldn’t you put out some of the most informative tutorial video about +R?

Not that it at-all automatically implies the use of censorship, but Eventhubs has seemingly been contracted by Microsoft to promote the new KI right from its first reveal.

A friend pointed out to me that virtually all of their early KI articles refer to KI specifically using the phrase “Killer Instinct on Xbox One” or “Killer Instinct on the Xbox One,” and often in the article headline. The other very marketing-department phrase that I noticed they use repeatedly is “the upcoming Xbox One exclusive” or “the upcoming Xbox One exclusive game.” To me, the phrases themselves are slightly conspicuous, but the consistency of their use is comically gratuitous.

I think it’s a bit silly to think that there is anything morally or ethically wrong about any of this, but I will say that a paid endorsement of this nature severely erodes journalistic credibility, and that any censorship of an “open” discussion collapses the integrity of the discussion.

But really though, I think mostly everyone here already knows that this isn’t the first time Eventhubs has made themselves look bad.

Visited Eventscrubs earlier today and laughed my ass off at the drama caused by the Sherry articles and the mods trying to justify it.

same thing happened on testyourmight before Injustice was released. have fun.

Zeb Colter was right!

This is not my America…er…Internet!

Thanks Obama !

You want video game journalism to be credible…? On top of that, you want video game journalism coming from the FGC to be credible?

Damn it deadfrog, I can’t take this type of trolling.

If you aren’t paying someone you aren’t their customer. You are their product.

EventHubs is selling you to their customers, the guys who put food on their tables.

Maybe we should pay for news?

Is it really so much for me to ask, when everything that I post is scripture?

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smh @ all these MS defenders

eventhubs on topic? fuck it, Im out, and someone ban OP, karma is a bitch

It’s eventhubs, so who cares?

lol Eventhubs
lol Xbox One
lol Killer Instinct

Did I miss anything?

nice try, Maj.

No but seriously, fuck Eventhubs. They leech on other people’s work, and only started linking the creator once enough people bitched.

In all fairness Eventhub coverage is significantly faster than SRK’s front page by hours and sometimes days. They used to be shitty but they’ve put in work to clean a lot of stuff up. On top of it all, the writers will fix their “articles” based on comment feedback and do it regularly. Both EH and srk front are still ass; but the reasons why they are ass have nothing to do with their “news.”

But meh about the xbone, if you bought into the original and the 360, you were the problem.

Honestly though, its stupid and counter-productive to hate on the game before it even releases. At least post negative shit after you’ve actually played the game.

Maj?

I wouldn’t go to eventhubs if SRK didn’t take several days to upload news at times.