Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Nearly all major review sites base major reviews off of hype now. IGN, Gamespot, 1up, etc. /not sarcasm If you have a major game coming out, say Halo 3 or GTA IV or Mario Galaxy, you upscore the game and say as many things you think the fans want to say about the game. Because the fans are reading your publication and you want them to keep reading it. You keep all your 'opinions' or 'real' reviews for other games (which the majority of your readers won't pay attention to or won't cause a major anger against your publication). |
That and videogame magazines have been dying for a while now.
Magazines live off threee things. Subscriptions, magazines sold to stores and advertising.
With the first two dwindling the third is really important.
Last thing you can afford is pissing off a huge source of advertising revenue. Which... most adds are bought by said companies.
Websites are the same way except they rely on ads even more.
