Killshot: MSI’s Shady Review Practices & Ethics
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This video is simple: We’re going through a few years of ethical concerns we have felt pertaining to MSI’s handling of reviewers and the reviews process. MSI was given an opportunity to speak with us prior to publication. Our goal is that MSI, and the rest of the industry, can learn to behave more appropriately when working with media. Namely, that’d mean no more “asking” for changes to content or titles. As a bonus, there's lots of talk about our history of getting blacklisted (and un-blacklisted).
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - MSI's "Request" History
04:15 - Why This is Coming Up Now
07:09 - MSI's Tactics with Reviewers
08:50 - Threats GN Has Dealt With in the Past
09:53 - GN's Advice to Newer YouTubers & Reviewers
11:00 - This Behavior is Rare, But...
13:56 - Incident: MSI Laptop Damaged Lid
20:28 - Incident: MSI’s X370 Titanium
24:07 - Trying to Stall Criticism Into Irrelevance
27:56 - Stringing Along New Reviewers
31:10 - A Deeply-Rooted Problem, We Think
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Host, Editorial: Steve Burke
Video: Keegan Gallick, Andrew Coleman