| joshin69 said: disolitude I agree with your point, but you work in the industry. perks are asked for and given all the time as well you must know. This is not my point though. Should OPSM be included in scores on meta? for me no. They can claim to be independent all they wish but if meta, or anyone else want to claim to be truly impartial with the collection review scores they need to collect reviews from reviewers who potentially have nothing to gain or lose from their review. The world doesn't work like this and never will, so some scores will be scued. Impartiality doesn't exist where money is concerned, please don't try and tell me otherwise. Anyway working in publishing has probably made me to cynical when it cames to sales stratagy. Its a moot point as these things can only effect a score by 5 points at the very max. |
You are right that there are lots of perks. Hell, Yahoo is taking me to lunch next week...since we advertise with them a lot. :)
But these perks are never work related...work is a seperate entity and no one I know in the industry is willing to compromise their career or publications reputation over an advertising partnership. Both sides are making money off each other and thats where it ends.
Yahoo is never going to ask us not to advertise with MSN...they are just happy getting our advertising money.
If anything, I could see Variety giving Resistance 2 a lower score to get more people to click on that review and generate more advertising revenue. I do not see in any shape or form, Microsoft asking for this because they have a partnership worth few $100,000 .
