 You know, I don't like talking about stuff like this because I was a member of the media the print media at one point in my life I never worked for a big, you know website Kataku or IGN or GameSpot But you know running Zelda and former in game easier and you know metroid wiki.org It kind of was one of those things where I learned a newfound respect For trying to be a gamer trying to be a fan and trying to be a professional all at the same time But this story man This story It bothers me for a number of reasons. Let's just get into what happened. So Chris Grant He is the editor in chief of Polygon now I'm gonna tell you right now. I'm not a big fan of polygon in general When it first launched, you know years back I actually thought it was kind of a cool idea because it seemed like a place that was a refugee For certain games journalists that were fired or left other companies due to their BS Whether it be Kataku back when Kataku was doing a lot of bad stuff And I say back when because Kataku today is a lot different than the Kataku back then in terms of their video game coverage They still have some other coverage out there that you might not be into but their video game coverage is pretty excellent at Kataku in 2017 Pig credit out to Stefan Tatillo for really turning that side around after he became editor-in-chief, but that's neither here nor there Polygon interested me at first As the years wore on It became clear to me why some of these people maybe don't have jobs other were at other places in the industry Whether they chose the left or not A lot of sensationalist stuff a lot of just outright untrue, you know news reporting And I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this happened when Chris Grant and I realized I'm burning any possible bridge. I have it with working with Chris Grant or anyone else at Polygon, but He put something up on Twitter Bashing Breath of the Wild and bashing Nintendo That's just idiotic. Well, let me just get into his tweets and I'm gonna put them up here for you guys to see He said so he had friends over for a dinner party and he showed the switch off to a good pal And he accidentally overwrote my 100 plus hour Zelda file and it took three seconds for that to happen and He goes on to say not exaggerating when I say this Zelda just dropped from a top three for me this year To not ranking at all Nintendo is straight up delinquent The switch is an amazing console marred by a dinosaur of a company Refusing to honor its own customers. I can promise you with 1,000 percent confidence I will never play that game again. What a Effing disaster my favorite part of sharing this is all of the dipshits who stuttered to exclaim user error I didn't do that. Okay, so that's that's how this all got started, right? But the story didn't end there Later on he updated the situation update after working up the courage to look at my switch again it restarted and was in the Zelda menu and Master mode he started a new game in Master mode my empty save slots were empty master mode save slots when I switch back to normal there. They were I So he started a bunch of drama over nothing Absolutely nothing. I called Nintendo a dinosaur of a company called them delinquent He dropped Zelda out of the top three because a user potentially at this time potentially deleted his save file Ended up not deleting his save file at all So his whole rant was stupid the guy literally switched to master mode and didn't even touch Chris Grant's save file but man This is a problem I have The thing is he's editor-in-chief, right? This isn't just some some writer some editor this is like the top brass at Polygon talking about this and This isn't the same things are all rosy at Nintendo, right? There should be cloud saves cloud says would fix all of it Oh, you accidentally delete your save you can redownload it off the cloud, right? It's a thing that pretty much every other major platform has and Nintendo doesn't and it is something they need to address Breath of the Wild is also a very unique game in the Zelda sphere in that usually you have three different save files But because of Breath of the Wild's auto saving features and the way that it's set up It's one save file per user per version. So if you're playing normal mode, that's a safe. I play master mode It's a totally separate save file And then if you want a new save file you create a new user and what's what's really funny about this? Is Polygon actually wrote an article? Shortly after or it might even been before Switches launch saying that hey just to let you just as a heads up If you want to let your friends try out Breath of the Wild and you just set up a new profile for them So they have their own save file. So like Polygon wrote up a piece Specifically saying if you're going to let people try out this game create a new profile Chris Grant Had to have known this he had to have approved it He was editor-in-chief of the site back then so he knew that that article went out So he should have known off the top of his head that you should be making a new user profile for your friend That even try out the game now obviously it all ends up being a viewpoint because his friend never deleted his save file in the first place You started a new game in master mode Chris Grant is saying that his save file was in normal mode. So it's He made this big hollow boo out of absolutely nothing. Here's what frustrates me Regardless of what you think about Nintendo if you think that apparently he thinks they're a dinosaur of a company There's no way in heck. He got to this conclusion off of one thing He's based in on a history of things that Nintendo has done That's a little bit behind the times and I understand that but to call them straight up delinquent is his just wow and On top of that, I mean not only is he just straight up burning any possible bridge He has with Nintendo over what user error is and he says my favorite part in sharing this is all the dipshits Who stutter and the same user error? I didn't do that when it was completely user error It was user error both on his friend's part and user error specifically on his part because this fake file never got deleted And what really makes me this is how you know that there's still issues in the video game media and things I don't have an issue with video game media in general I think most of them do as good a job as they possibly can The fact that he's saying that he dropped Zelda from his top three because of what was a mistake and a user error is just hilarious The quality of Zelda the quality of Breath of the Wild how great that game is shouldn't be based on whether or not your friend Potentially in this case. He didn't do it delete your save file if your save file got deleted That doesn't affect how great the game is Unless the game itself deleted it like if it was a bug I used to have a bug playing the majority's Mask Gold cartridge version. I had I got it at launch I had one of the early obviously one of the original gold cartridge versions and When you played it if you would save at the owl statue inside the stone tower temple And you would you know keep playing or either quit and you didn't save it another place after that So if that was your last save point, which I know it's always a good save point for me I always like saving right before bosses then maybe coming back to the bosses later And you save there I would come back in and my whole save file would be deleted after I restart the game It was a big issue. I have a majority's Mask and it's why even to this day it stands as the only Zelda game I have not beaten Because I got so frustrated because I accidentally did it to myself three times as a kid And I just like oh man even majority mass 3d when that came out I played a ton of it, but I never really beat the game because I knew how the game ended at that point Right. I had watched how the game unfolds So I just didn't feel a desire that I needed to play it It kind of frustrates me that I'm still at that point But that's something I understand because that's a game you can argue that's a game breaking bug Right to lose hundreds of hours of it on a save file because you did what the game told you to do and it deleted your file That that's frustrating. This is different This would have been 100% user era and as mad as you want to be at Nintendo for not offering cloud saves Or for this particular Zelda game to not have multiple save files as if that would have changed the fact that your friend could Easily overrode a save file. Anyways, just baffles the hell out of me This shows I like I said this shows issues in the in the video game media industry This is the editor-in-chief of polygon outing himself as not only being an idiot and over exaggerating things And the thing is I don't actually think he's a real idiot, right? I'm not name-calling here But about this particular thing. He's being really stupid Um, I'm sorry how great a game is unless it's a game breaking bug that you discovered later Does not is not diminished because you're there might have been a user error that deleted your save file That is not something that affects the quality of the game That just makes you extremely upset that you love in fact how upset you are at losing that save file Should let you know how amazing that game was because you Don't want to lose that save file because of how much work and how much fun you put into that save file So if anything that should verify your placement of the game and to say I could promise you with 1,000% confidence I will never play that game again. Well, guess what you have your save file guaranteed You've already played it again since and on top of that If the game was a top three game and as great as you thought you were never gonna start the game over again Really? Really? I know several games that I think are all-time great games or greatest games of the year and Yeah, I start them over again because I want to experience it all over again. I I Don't know. This is just a funny story to me. It's a complete non-story, right? This isn't even newsworthy, but I just had to talk about it because it's so funny And I hate when the media gets painted in such a bad life, but man, I can't ignore this This is bad. This is bad Chris Grant Congratulations, you burned every bridge you had left with Nintendo I won't be surprised if you end up on Nintendo's blacklist now and you're not gonna get you know Even polygons as a whole might not get review copies of Nintendo games anymore and I wouldn't be surprised if People stop taking your opinions on things seriously because this was extremely reactionary without even bothering They'll boot the game. I mean you literally couldn't boot the game up and see that Before you went on this rant that your file was actually gone. You just assumed it was gone. Oh Man, I mean how do you know he wasn't playing under a different profile at the time again user error both on your body's part I'm primarily on your part, Chris. I'm sorry I wish I could take this all back, but you did it to yourself You guys let me know what you think about this whole stupid situation in the comments below And I'm sure because he decided to swear and I had to read some of that stuff off that this video is gonna be demonetized I don't even care at this point when idiotic stuff like this happens it needs to be called out because Maybe some of you guys out there trust polygon. I don't know I haven't trusted them for a long time due to other articles. They've created but This is one that yeah, I mean I'm not saying polygon can't turn it around if Kotaku could turn it around where I used to Not trust them and now I do Polygon can too, but it's not gonna happen in the leadership of Chris Grant Not say he's a bad guy not saying he hasn't done some great work, but this is a bad look and At least when it comes to the Nintendo stuff We obviously can't trust you when you are calling Nintendo delinquent and all that stuff. You can have criticisms all you want You didn't even state why they were delinquent or why they were a dinosaur company, right? Like if you're gonna make accusations like that back them up I think actually saying marred by a dinosaur of a company and refusing to honor its own customers I think that's something that you actually could make a legit argument for and back up with facts But you didn't you're using an example of a user error To say that and that example does not fit that description And I don't even get what the whole honor its own customers thing means like what? What are they supposed to honor you with they gave you one of the greatest games of all time? We have Super Mario Odyssey coming out this week again potentially one of the greatest games of all time Nintendo's continuing to give you great content. They're giving you a switch that you loved That your friends are enjoying as well when they try it out. I I don't know how they're not honoring you Can you explain that? Because again these issues sound like they go well beyond this dumb user error that you're saying my favorite part is shared And this is all the people that will say who started to explain user error. I didn't do that Yeah, I mean exactly that's exactly what it is Not only is the save file still there, but even if the save file was gone. It's still your fault Chris Anyways folks, I'm with any rubber jabs from the tender prime if you like this video You know what to do it if you I should not be smiling so much while I'm going to this right? I actually think this is terrible, but man Some people's idiocy could just be really entertaining anyways folks Subscribe for more content, and I'll catch you in the next one