SxyxS said:
the guy is obviously RATING the technical achievement(just read the text)
money bribes for reviews is a complete myth....
lolololol. It is the easiest way to get a good rating. You 'll have to invest 20mio+ dollars + hire very skilled guys to get half a dozen unbiased 10 out of 10 game,but you only have to pay a few 10thousand dollars to get the same effect.
Seems you don't know how media works? I'll quote Seymour Hersh(most famous +rewarded journalist on planet earth)about the state of Media. "We lie about everything.Lieing has become the staple" And if you want to know how simple this works:Wiki Noah Chumskies Propaganda model. or do some research about Randolph Hearsts creation of the spanish-american war(the first media war in history)
Of course those guys are not so stupid to buy 10 out of 10 ratings for bad games as this would be too obvious and destroy trust and reputation,but a 10 out of 10 for a 8 or 9 game is easy to be bought and will create more hype and attention than a 50 mio dollar advertising campaign Corporations are paying and buying politicians again and again and again(calingl it lobbyism,donation etc)they have been caught manipulating ratings(eg Lehman AAA+ one day before they crashed)the libor,building cartells etc etc but they can't manipulate such an easy thing like game ratings???-do you really believe this?? |
looking at the fact that marketing communication is my job I probably have way more insight on the matter than you do.... and know all about media manipulation and even legal loop holes or the fact that sometimes it is cheaper to run an ad campain that is breaking laws and paying the fine tahn looking for other ways to do it.... but keep believing that they give money to journalist for things like games that most people don't even read it makes our kind laugh hard at work....
especially to the kind of newspaper this is coming from.... but yeah bribery is everywhere lol








