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by Uhhrrr 3917 days ago
You should write about all the problems with major game publishers and name names. It would be a great article! However, considering how most game sites circled the wagons for the case of Nathan Grayson and an unknown indie dev, I don't have high hopes.

Also, saying there was no conflict of interest between Grayson and Quinn is bunk. He had hung out with her, flirted online, planned a trip to Vegas with her, and been thanked in the credits of Quinn's game. A journalist outside of the games industry would have let someone else cover the Game Jam, given that level of involvement.

Quinn should be blameless in this - there's no handbook of ethics for indie devs - but Stephen Totilo absolutely shouldn't.

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> You should write about all the problems with major game publishers and name names.

People have written bits and pieces on this before

Nobody really cares.

Here's a Reddit post about Polygon's Samit Sarkar which got 500 upvotes: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3jq1xm/goal...

Here's a post about EA giving early access to Reddit mods, who didn't disclose it. 2000 upvotes: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3c8wze/ethi...

There's definitely a constituency among gamers.