Just thinking of a recent pet peeve.  Idiotic companies media departments or other responsible parties that keep making screen shots and other information about their games harder to make use of.

What I'm talking about is the number of companies (like say Ubisoft as an example) that put information about their games on beautiful web sites with fancy flash graphics, or java scripted viewers that hide the real location of the images and make them difficult for common folk (like me) to make use of when putting out a review of their titles.

I suppose I can go through a lot of effort to contact the publicity/press relations departments of all of the gaming companies that I'd like to review games from and beg for their cooperation in providing me with press materials, hopefully some screen shots and other useful materials, but I really have to ask why these companies have to make stuff so difficult to begin with.

As an example, the same folks at Ubisoft, the ones that just published the excellent Rainbow Six: Vegas game, are pretty much begging their fans to spread the word about the game (please note, I'm really not trying to do that here, I already wrote my comments about the game elsewhere).  That's great, its understandable, and I'd be kind of happy to try to help but without being able to link to some package of screen shots just how am I really supposed to be showing other potential players what the game looks like?!

Ubisoft and others would be better served by keeping the content on their websites simpler, more friendly towards others that want to link back to the sites, and easier to navigate without needing a lot of extra software loaded on your system to begin with.  In the end they'd be helping in the viral campaigns which goes a long way towards helping to move more product.