Why are gaming critics so utterly fucking worthless? They just give every AAA game high scores regardless of how much of a shallow, buggy, dumbed-down mess it is. Why the fuck are they so scared of actually being negative of a popular game?
Why are gaming critics so utterly fucking worthless...
Logan Gutierrez
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Henry Torres
They have "business partnerships" if you can call them that, with AAA developers
But even if they didn't they would gladly cocksuck anything popular since most of them aren't even gamers but failed movie journalists.
Josiah Russell
>Why the fuck are they so scared of actually being negative of a popular game?
If they don't dicksuck companies hard enough, they don't get reviewer copies and interviews.
Brody Mitchell
Why are user scores so utterly fucking worthless. They're made by mentally ill incels who plan review-bombing campaigns months in advance and will give games 0/10 for the most trivial reasons irrespective of the game's complete experience.
Samuel Rivera
Maybe these users should buy i9's and RTX vidya cards.
Asher Lewis
My biggest concern is Nintendo games which are grossly inflated for lesser titles.
Camden Bennett
Did you seriously just up and forget the entire point of gamergate.
These "journalists" are unironically just shills in their little tech bubbles jacking each other off.
Literally some times
They are a fucking joke.
Jose Johnson
pretty much this
Nathaniel Brown
unironically this. Like, 99% of the bombed reviews are people REEEEEEing that the game does not run 4kUltra RTX on a potato.
Pic related is a screengrab from my Series X. It's not a 3090-tier shot, but it's more than enough for me to enjoy the game.
Brody Robinson
What part of bribery are you unfamiliar with?
Nolan Perez
The reviewers with integrity, the ones that were critical of the game, tended to work for publications that don't assign scores.
Elijah Price
how many of these "bad" reviews are because of bugs?
Michael Jones
>Why the fuck are they so scared of actually being negative of a popular game?
>Give popular game negative or at least a not-completely-positive review
>Publisher proceeds to blacklist them
>No more interviews or pre-release info, which leads to lower traffic and less ad revenue
>No more review copies so their reviews for future games are late, again reducing ad revenue as people go elsewhere for that coverage
>Potentially pulls massive ad contracts entirely and/or won't enter new ones, further fucking their ad revenue (see a pattern?)
If they give popular games review scores the publisher is not happy with, they could literally lose their jobs down the line, it could cost them millions. They are at the behest of big publishers, anything short of positive PR is grounds for any/all of the above happening.
This shit's been happening forever. EGM had a nice editorial about it like 13 years ago after they game the first AssCreed a 7. Ubishit did most/all of the above, and they were also blacklisted by Midway and Sony's sports division for also scoring their games too low for the publisher's liking. And I'm sure most of you remember the Kane and Lynch Gamepsot fiasco, same shit.
Leo Campbell
The entire point of gamergate was literal incels obsessing over some fat landwhale’s sex life.
Eli Campbell
Everybody keeps asking the same question over and over again. The need the ad money and early access exclusives for hits. They tell the truth, the lose that. Case fucking closed.
Connor King
Half of the sidequests are impossible to complete you mong.
Dylan Allen
>The very media outlets accused of being corrupt successfully changed the narrative to literal incels obsessing over some fat landwhale’s sex life.
ftfy, though the people actually doing that just made it that much more easy. Once again Zig Forumsshit getting involved just backfires and causes the literal opposite of what they want to happen to actually happen.
Noah Wright
>6.3 two days ago
>6.7 yesterday
>6.9 today
Really makes you think.
Nathan Brooks
this
it's not about them changing, it's about people never using them again because they refuse to change. But that won't happen either because the world is majority populated by brainless dolts who genuinely think that a game MUST be as good as the big sites say, because they don't get to be a big site by being wrong, do they?
it's all so demoralizing
Aiden Allen
>Why are gaming critics so utterly fucking worthless?
Imagine still trusting "journalists" in 2020
Camden Richardson
There’s no narrative, the whole thing started when some low-t faggot posted a blog about his girlfriend wing a whore. Incels RISED UP against kotaku for not reporting on this groundbreaking story. Fuckin ridiculous.
Thomas Phillips
Scoring is retarded. They literally tells you nothing, but it's very easy to use as advertisement for the consumer or as security for the stockholders.
Dylan Evans
They want to be invited to industry events and parties.
Adrian Long
Imagine buying into any of it after Gamergate
Actually, imagine even needing Gamergate to know about this shit if you were aware about Kane and Lynch gamespot scandal which happened years prior
Brody Cook
>gamespot gives it a 7/10
>mass disliked video sitting at 8k likes and 29k dislikes
Gee i wonder why they dont want to give it a low score
Jackson Collins
But GG wasn never about reviews or journalistic integrity.
David Long
Yes, started out as that, then Zig Forums latched on, the media ran with it and that was that. You can't even talk about the underling issue without it being dismissed as Zig Forumsshit, they literally ruin everything they touch.
Jose Lopez
>6 years later faggots are still seething over gamergate
wew
Carter Allen
Central part of gamergate was the conflict of interest due to relationships between journalists and developers, what the fuck are you on about
Josiah Smith
Hunter Sanchez
IGN did nothing wrong.
Asher Thomas
>redditors KNEELED to the gamespot review when 2077 came out