Quality =/= sales

[Galaki]

KingHades said:

RolStoppable said:
This is very easy to explain.

A common observation is that Sony sucks at marketing their games and that's because they don't have enough money to do so. Why? Because they pay off reviewers left, right and center to get good scores for their games.

That wouldn't make any sense.Why would you pay off reviewer(s) to give your game a good score.When you could market the game and get 1000x more money you would get if you didn't pay reviewers.... That's terrible thinking.It's like saying that instead of using my money to get my product out their im going to use it to make people give it a good rep.That won't help at all because if CoD were to get a say a 60 on metacritic that game would still sell like hot cakes.

Your logic fails...

It's much more cost effective to buy off reviewers. Ads cost a lot more.

Think of it as lobbying. You buy off the politicians to do your corporate biddings.

Give me good reviews and you'll get swags and early/exclusive previews and free trips to so and so events 5 stars hotel.

You can buy a 100 reviews for a 30 seconds ad spot.