Fox News Reviewer immediately fired for early review

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Kasz216 said:

JaggedSac said:
I guarantee that if a site broke the review date that game companies sometimes set, there would be consequences.

Well they don't really set review dates the same way as movie companies.

Afterall Videogame companies say "You can't review the game untill 3 weeks after it's been released unless you give it an 80 or higher."

If a movie studio tried to put a star limit on movie reviews.... they just don't.  They'd get blasted.

 

 

 That's the producer side of things, and I agree that's also heavily manipulated.

Right now I'm discussing the consumer side, though. In film criticism, any attempts like these are viewed as hackery: Roger Friedman's name is now anathema in the industry, more or less. By comparison, we encourage game critics to engage in this sort of behavior. Give us the review a month before the game comes out: fight over exclusive reviews; feed us a constant stream of rumors and leaks that may or may not be authorized and may or may not have a reliable source.