darkknightkryta said:
maverick40 said:
Your post has zero proof. Here is what I found:
The issue, Gerstmann claimed in a streaming interview, was that a new management team inexperienced in dealing with editorial groups, had come to power at Gamespot and overreacted to what Gerstmann describes as "publisher push-back." According to his recollection, Eidos threatened to pull ad revenue from Gamespot as a result of his review, and though this kind of thing is relatively common in games journalism, the nascent management team panicked and decided that Gerstmann was unreliable. "They felt they couldn't trust me in the role," Gerstmann said.
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So nothing about the reviewer receiving money. It was about ad revenue for the site as a whole. I rest my case.
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That IS money. Plus a threat to the outlet to get a review score changed.
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Listen, the games industry has been around for over 20 years and how come we have NEVER heard 1st hand of any journalist being paid by publishers to review a game over that period?