Naznatips... You seem to be saying the system is corrupt because reviewers don't have the same opinion as you. You think FF7 sucked, you think Godfather was better than GTA... Therefore the system is broken.
I don't buy it. You even shluffed off temporary score embargoes. The fact that a publisher can hold the press hostage so that consumers only see high scores before a game's release is far better evidence that gaming criticism is dead than your personal opinion of a 10 year old PS1 game.
And I'm sure there's plenty of sites getting swag with no real standards on it. Let's start with IGN, Gamespot and 1up, the biggest gaming sites of them all, who take all the press junkets, getting flown around the globe for special events on publisher's tabs. I guess it's not people going on those trips, though, it's just "the office."
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
