Neverwinter Nights 2: The Continuing Saga at 1 Up

The drama that was the retraction of a review by a freelance 1 Up writer continues. Jeff Green, 1 Up head honcho, has written a very detailed blog entry about exactly what happened before, during and after the article was written. It basically boils down to this:

And I think maybe that's the point of this post. Just to tell you that the actions we took were not lightly done. The comments I've read have been pretty much everything I expected, given that people either don't have all the information (because we haven't shared every minute detail), they have preconceptions of how the press works, they are predisposed to either hate us or praise us no matter what we do, etc. Everyone has a take on what happened here: We sold out to Atari. We sold out Matt Peckham. We did the right thing. We did the wrong thing. We compromised our integrity. We increased our integrity.

Reading all these opinions, and contemplating this throughout the day myself, I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop second-guessing what we did. I do think I will tell you a little more of what went down, so that maybe you can come to your own conclusions a little better.

It's a well-written piece that details the decision-making process, the editor-writer interaction and the reasons behind the retraction.

Read the rest at 1 Up.