Why are reviewers being such hardasses this gen?

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super_etecoon said:

I read it...I just think you give to much leeway to the developer...and not enough to the reviewer.  I hate patches that fix things that should have been taken care of in alpha and beta testing.  Did they stop running those ads about being a game tester?  

Most devs nowadays just treat their consumers as bug testers that they don't have to pay. It's despicable and pathetic, but it's just the way things are in modern gaming, alas.