Do you assholes really think Sony and developers pay for reviews and pay people to shill here?

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.

Attached: 35jl1qb.png (888x791, 867.38K)

Do you enjoy sucking cocks as much as you enjoy spouting bullshit?
Fuck off, you'll never be a real journalist.

Idk about any of that but I shill my Lara for free

Attached: su53mlrvkv501.jpg (736x727, 60.3K)

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.

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

When will this model be exported to SFM?

>pay for reviews
Yes.
>pay people to shill here
No.

>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.

3-4 years ago boi

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.

Horse

>paid reviews

Absolutely.

>paid shills

They don’t need to. Their pathetic fan base does it for free.

>Metacritic
Why are metacritic scores so inaccurate and why are steam ratings so much more accurate?

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.

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)

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

what's your evidence that reviews are paid for?

Get me a job

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

Wait 'til you see my yikes!
Wait 'til you see my cock!

Lemme fall back
You aint ready for all that ;)

Attached: Erica_20200415201016.png (1280x720, 747.86K)

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

fuck off clown

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.

when did you realize just how much of a fucking joke you are for being a vidya journalist
fucking sorry sack of shit
when?

On a serious not why do gaming journalists still exist? I usually just watch trailers and gameplay when making decisions.

people still visit gaming sites by the millions

they literally fucking admit it at the beginning of their video essays

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

Attached: Screen Shot 2020-07-12 at 6.24.32 PM.png (1146x1134, 1.32M)

>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.

Yes. Literally every industry works this way, why do you think rap albums and marvel shite are being lauded as masterpieces nowadays?

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.

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.

for me it's Lara in AoD