News
If You Like It
Cordova, TN; June 1, in the year of our Lord 2015--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is addressing a recent trend within the PR
industry. How do we know about it? The PR contacts are saying it
to us. It has been cropping up from Christian movie companies,
and the worldly video game companies. It is also a trend that
can be heard in a variety of other places. What is it? The
phrase: “if you like it.” What is wrong with that? By itself
nothing. What follows is where things get problematic. What is
it that follows? Go tell everyone you know about this product.
Also tell everyone on the selfish social media sites. Also make
as many purchases of our product as you can. Notice the self
centered nature of it?
That is not even the worst part. Plenty of people have told us:
“if you don’t like it, then be quiet.” So they are trying to
ensure the only news, reviews, previews, videos, and everything
else of their product is only positive. They want to weed out
any constructive criticism. They want everyone to be super. And
when everyone is super - no one is. I have even heard from PR
contacts that if we don’t like something they won’t give us
reviewable copies. They are trying to get promises of high
review scores for a reviewable copy. This is crazy. They
actually are trying to stop any negative reviews. Family
Friendly Gaming has gotten threats of no more reviewable copies
from certain people because of constructive criticism in a
review. They act like they control us, and they are our bosses.
Even worse a few companies have denied us reviewable copies
because we said something they did not like. Talk about having a
thin skin, and trying to force everyone to give them their
myopic, unprofessional, and childish way.
This Caprica level of corruption is a real, deep, and important
problem eating away at the video game industry. There are
companies making billions of dollars who are not content. They
want to make more. They think by destroying the integrity and
credibility of video game journalism that they will get more
sales. I get emails all the time thanking Family Friendly Gaming
for being honest, genuine, and real. They thank us for our
integrity and honor. Christ Centered Gamer is another website
getting the same thank you emails. I wish this entire story was
a long list of all the gaming sites getting the thank you emails
for having integrity. I wish more of the gaming sites were not
seen as bought off. I wish corruption would be weeded out of the
video game industry. I wish the cynicism of positive reviews on
certain sites was much lower.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming