Yea that's the weird part .how does he know he is black listed this soon?
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Le Monde journalist who reported the Quantic Dream scandal says he got blacklisted by Sony [read OP]
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Like, the only thing I can see happening here is this journalist calling Sony for commentary or whatever, and them declining. Which, you know, that's their right. That's not being "blacklisted" though.
After the way Sony handled the harassment allegations at Naughty Dog this doesn't surprise me. Get your shit together, Sony.
This thread is hilarious. Half the posters are clamoring arrogant Sony is back, half the posters are asking how he knows he was blacklisted.
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Not getting review copies of games, not being invited to official events, something like that?
It's completely different here though. Bethesda presumably blacklisted Kotaku for leaking game details or something.
Imagine how much of this goes on at dev studios unreported. There's no way blacklisting a journalist is worse for them than having harassment scandals keep popping up.
Well maybe to Gamers For Integrity In Journalism it's worse, but it shouldn't be.
No, Sony is a corporation when we get right down to it. There is a ton of moving parts at a major corporation, but at the end of the day, a corporation will almost always look out for their best interests (and won't always act for moral reasons). Even when companies do the morally right thing, it's usually down to doing it for good PR, or because they had so much backlash it was hurting their brand.
As of now, Sony might be feeling that there isn't enough backlash to justify cutting ties with QD, or taking the hit on losing Detroit. Basically they have currently accessed, that this is less risk. They could be banking on most people not caring about this news (or the news not spreading far). Or it could just be that, their relationship with QD (and the
Importance of Detroit for their company), means much more then a journalist / outlet.
All speculation tho.
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I'm honestly curious about this, too.
If you don't receive any review copies and being ignored for a long time, you know you're blacklisted. But this soon after the actual event happend. How do you know your blacklisted and are they open about like "we would rather not work with you anymore" or not.
Those are details that never get mentioned.
Does he say how he knows he is black listed ? Sony picked up phone and called him to tell him u r black listed ?QD isn't even a Sony studio so it would be weird for Sony to react like that .
Yeah, they probably got a formal email telling them that they are no longer business partners or something like that.
I hope this is some over litigious lawyer preemptively, calling shots before knowing the whole story, than the position of the company.
That being said, fuck Quantic Dream, I hope Sony stops funding their shit and get their good employees on board with them.
I can't imagine it being a good idea. If it's press releases you can just copy that from the other 100 sites. If it's reviews you can still buy the game and tank the metacritic if that's the concern.
they did
Nothing other than standard PR tho. Rough translation:
http://www.gameblog.fr/news/72953-polemique-quantic-dream-sony-reagit-aux-accusations-portees-
It's likely someone within Sony gave the journalist a heads up. Someone who disagrees with silencing press reporting on poor working conditions and harassment as much as we do.
They handle that with threats, it's easier that way. The Gamekult story in the OP is pretty funny to read nowadays.
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No, but feel free to ask him on Twitter. I'd like to know, too.
Well I did say "at least" but I wasn't expecting the bare minimum, I'm guessing this is from SIE France.
I trust a journalist to know when they're blacklisted more than users on a gaming forum's hypothesis on why he might not be blacklisted
Are we sure he doesn't mean blackballed? As in no one at Sony will talk to him about the QD shit?
For those who keep asking about how he knows he has been blacklisted: look to articles about Disney blacklisting LA Times journalists back in Nov. You can quickly tell, for example, by not being able to log in to their press sites.
This is a shitty situation and a shitty reaction to it.
This is a shitty situation and a shitty reaction to it.
