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Originally Posted by red_avatar
They claim that their magazine is totally unaffected by pandering to publishers & developers and I found that hard to believe.
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It IS hard to believe. Nobody in the PC media is unaffected by the publishers and developers, nobody. We are but small webzine in Hungary, but even we are not unaffected. The real problem are not the low scores, negative popularity is popularity too, just look at the GTA series. The real problem is information and timing. It all depends on the sources, what can you publish when, because gaming news is almost more important than reviews.
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bad scores could and would affect the sales of any given game since a large amount of people relied on those reviews.
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The thing is, people rely less and less on reviews, and much less on scores. In a system where 9.3 is uber-good and 8.2 is the sh*t, you can't be sure. That's why people want hands-on experiences, videos, demos, pirated copies, before they buy the actual game, because we, the media, is inherently corrupt. We battle with each other with very little regard for the readers. The small indy magazines and webzines, like us, are pretty unworthy for the reader's attention. We have a sizable core fanbase, but its never near enough. While IGN and Gamespot are at each other's throats, we, small-timers, write our reviews and try to stay afloat on the sea of sh*t that is the PC (and console) media.
