Do you assholes really think Sony and developers pay for reviews and pay people to shill here?
lol I've spent some time as a video game journo and have managed to make it a semi full time job. I work for a website that is featured on Metacritic and also write for the gaming section of another website that is the top 5 news sites in my country (I've also seen Anons post screenshots of an article I wrote lol so its a website that's fairly popular here). It's been fucking hilarious seeing the "hurr durr Sony paid for this TLOU2 review" when I know for a fact the guy who reviewed it bought it himself and I've seen the website go from nothing to a top gaming news site in years without a cent from Sony lol.
Also AMA about professional video game journos/critics and video game websites. Nothing that makes me reveal my identity.
I don't think anyone pays anyone to shill on Zig Forums anymore. It's just trolls looking for (You)s, but you can't believe that someone trying to get your goat could be anyone less than a professional salaried employee of a company you hate. Instead of some faggot from Idaho with a few minutes to kill.
Ian Rodriguez
I get paid to write about video games, and I genuinely do love video games. I couldn't ask for a better job and I hope to be a full time video game critic one day
Cameron Foster
When will this model be exported to SFM?
Chase Brown
>pay for reviews Yes. >pay people to shill here No.
Camden Wright
>pay for reviews Absolutely. If not directly, then indirectly by offering free copies and pre-release material. >pay for shills Nah, though some indie devs come here to shill their shit sometimes.
Colton Bell
3-4 years ago boi
Jose Gonzalez
you act like being associated with a website thats featured on metacritic is hard. Go to any game and look up the critical reviews.. tell me you recognize for than 90% of those random ass outlets. "Give us good reviews, or be black listed from covering out games" is incentive. It's payment, faggot.
Brody Lopez
Horse
Gavin Robinson
>paid reviews
Absolutely.
>paid shills
They don’t need to. Their pathetic fan base does it for free.
Asher Gray
>Metacritic Why are metacritic scores so inaccurate and why are steam ratings so much more accurate?
Gavin Morris
Well yeah, devs (especially indie devs) will give out free reviews but
a) you have to state so in your review and b) I've given game I got for free bad reviews My review of Waking was 5.5/10 and I got it free
lol not really I've wrote for a few outlets, including some that aren't featured on Metacritic. It's not as easy as you think. Someone new in the industry certainly isn't writing for a metacritic-featured gaming news site.
Liam Rivera
Can't speak about user reviews, but I'd argue that any rating system that's not out of ten is stupid and attempts to make something interently subjective objective.
Number-rated review systems are inherently flawed and a grading system is superior (i.e. A,B, C, D ...F)
Robert Smith
How can we be sure, that you aren't lying
And yes, companies are "paying" for reviews, even just indirectly If their games get bad reviews, they advertise less on the sites with bad reviews, or they don't give out any pre-release review copies anymore Maybe, they also blacklist magazines from preview events
Cameron Hernandez
what's your evidence that reviews are paid for?
Jace Thompson
Get me a job
Isaac Butler
And I forgot, Sony was recently "threathining" magazines/outlets who gave the last of us 2 a bad review Similar thing happened with Kane and Lynch 2
Not him, but >review says, game is bad >other people says, it's bad
Aaron Fisher
Wait 'til you see my yikes! Wait 'til you see my cock!
Then as a games "journalist" I would expect you to have the powers of observation to realize that, in a sense, your industry relies on the goodwill and cooperation of developers to exist-- in many ways, you are a kind of volunteer extension of the industry's marketing wing. Your job is primarily to promote games by discussing them, so it won't do to be overly critical or truthful except in extreme circumstances or in the case of an outlier when it's alright to dogpile on a game widely recognized to be bad, phoned-in, or from a lesser-known dev. Just because you don't receive a paycheck with "wrote good reviews for my game" filled in as the purpose doesn't mean you are not compensated for spreading positive marketing about a game. They use game journalism as an example of compromised ethics when they teach actual journalism, by the way
Jonathan Lopez
fuck off clown
Hunter Miller
If you put literally tens of millions of dollars into a videogame project are you really going to risk it all at the end by not forking out a little extra cash to guarantee your good reviews?
I'm not saying it definitely does happen, but to suggest that the very idea of it happening being farfetched is silly.
Jordan Bennett
when did you realize just how much of a fucking joke you are for being a vidya journalist fucking sorry sack of shit when?
Jaxson Myers
On a serious not why do gaming journalists still exist? I usually just watch trailers and gameplay when making decisions.
Landon Jones
people still visit gaming sites by the millions
Joseph Flores
they literally fucking admit it at the beginning of their video essays
Michael Bennett
No Coping for Old Men There Will Be Seethe Seething Las Vegas The Good, The Bad, and The Coping The Man Who Came in From the Cope I Have No Mouth And I Must Seethe
>threatening pointing out invalid criticisms is not threatening. it's exactly what happened with igns re2 reviews, but this time it's not ok because sony's doing it.
Daniel Brown
Yes. Literally every industry works this way, why do you think rap albums and marvel shite are being lauded as masterpieces nowadays?
Liam Green
now now, wagie. I'm sorry you couldn't get a job you enjoy, but you don't have to spout all of your projection on image boards.
Levi Torres
the real reason is that people volunteer to review games they enjoy. If someone in my slack group enjoys pokemon, they'll be chosen when there's pokemon games to review.
