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Depends on the reviewers. Big reviewers won't risk their credibility by getting bribed to write better reviews.
Quote from: Mizari on February 11, 2013, 02:00:46 PMDepends on the reviewers. Big reviewers won't risk their credibility by getting bribed to write better reviews.But IGN is a highly popular, and trusted reviewer but soetmes. Their reviews dont add up to the game too well
And you can't ignore that Gamespot incident where an employee got fired for giving an honest review.
they're gonna get that food review regardless how good the game is
Definitely. And it's been going on since I was reading Megadrive and Amiga magazines in the early 90's at least. Many old reviewers have spoken out about it.
For all you know they could have just "spoken out" in order to promote themselves, easy publicity no matter whether its true or not. Evidence man, where's the evidence? (that's me asking for the names of these chaps)Maybe a small amount of reviewers have been paid off, to rule it out completely would be foolhardy, but to imply its a frequent practice is a big accusation.
That kind of publicity would be BAD for reviewers. Once the public finds out that you've been paid to give good reviews on things your credibility instantly drops to nothing.It doesn't just happen to video game reviews either. Restaurant critics, music critics, and most especially movie critics; almost anything that can be reviewed, some of those have been paid off.