Shame on Amd!

[ginjaninja]

http://www.kitguru.net/site-news/announcements/zardon/amd-withdraw-kitguru-fury-x-sample-over-negative-content/

Christine Browne informed me directly on the phone that the reason for withdrawing the sample was based on ‘KitGuru’s negative stance towards AMD’. She said that with limited product they wanted to focus on giving the samples to publications that are ‘more positive’ about AMD as a brand, and company. I was not informed during this call of anything we have published that was factually incorrect, we were also not told to edit or remove any content we had published. Based on what AMD had seen via KitGuru editorial in recent weeks it was felt that overall coverage was just too negative.

Cant see any reason to doubt this...

If products cant withstand the average slings and arrows of reviewers, then it does not reflect well. My confidence in AMDs products is dented by such action.

We need to voice our support for reviewers against such tactics as it surely is in the consumers interest that reviewers feel free to speak their minds.
Lest in future your favourite reviewer feels under similar pressure.

 

[krooton]

*sigh*

Limited supply of review samples + some sites being difficult = those sites not getting the limited sample.

Simple.

 

[Qitarah]

What a stupid thread and a very stupid opinion.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Complete non story.

 

[Devrij]

already being discussed in the Fiji thread, but if you're gonna post inflammatory videos you can't expect to get dibs

 

[Josh]

Oh joy another Fury bashing AMD thread.

 

[kaku]

PR minefield...

Most hardware reviews these days are very 'soft' anyway; only comparing products against a small selection of others (which they no doubt beat).

I get that including TitanX benches in a review for a 370 isn't comparable, but it's good to know where a product stands within the overall marketplace.

The numbers speak for themselves. If your graphics card is good and puts out the frames, there's very little reviewer bias can do to sully it. If a reviewer is posting inaccurate/fake bench numbers, it'll soon be called out by the community anyway. This sort of thing happens for any company giving samples for whatever. It's just individual bias multiplied by perceived corporate bias compounded with a limited sample pool. I'm not surprised KitGuru are trying to make a stink about it.

 

[r7slayer]

Reviewers should be completely unbiased when reviewing products. kitguru do not come across completely unbiased. Go search for rebranding videos on nvidia or nvidia tantrum videos. There are non however do nvidia rebrand their gpu yes we have all seen this they do it just as much as AMD so where are the videos?

Ofc you don't send your products to reviews who favor other brands, that's just not good for business. You send them to people who you know can do good reviews on both sides.

 

[llamadal]

Oh joy another Fury bashing AMD thread.

How is it that?

If they have had a long term relationship, promised a review sample - then gave some weak reason for pulling it, then that information should be made public.

I have no doubt that this card will perform well and be a good seller.

 

[win8.1]

Roll on the 24th.

 

[Josh]

How is it that?

If they have had a long term relationship, promised a review sample - then gave some weak reason for pulling it, then that information should be made public.

I have no doubt that this card will perform well and be a good seller.

It's being discussed in the Fiji thread was my point, I'm not fanboy enough to care if a jounro didn't get a review copy.

 

[Boomstick777]

From the other thread:

so this is why AMD said no

watch this cringeworthy video

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/amd-fiji-hbm-and-product-rebadging/

Ha, that's the one I posted earlier.

The tone is his voice from the off and his opening line 'Speculation and guesswork' is all people need to know lol.

An awful video, totally unprofessional from Kitguru imho. The bit where he gets upset at AMD showing their unannounced products to customers. Rather than allowing them to review it before AMD have even been able to announce it at E3. Cringeworthy stuff. Elsewhere today anybody posting this video or defending AMD's stance is being deleted from discuss. So you have these guys whining and slating publicly via social media, followed by then doing the same thing over not received samples after AMD actually had a chance to announce their product. You can see that the websites are trying to steer the narrative. Totally ignorant that they were in the wrong.

AMD are being the bigger man.