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Aura7541 on 19 November 2014
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JakDaSnack said:
Aura7541 said:

You admit that you don't know and yet you made your claims earlier. That's not a smart thing to do and it only increases my suspicion of whether your arguments hold water. You just cannot make such hasty conclusions like that. That's why I said you should know better.

As for the second bolded, of course it costs more money. A single cent more will count as "more money". And with the example I provided above, it would not cost that much more anyways. Just a few sentences that are to the point and easy peasy. Just like that.

This is quickly turning from a discussion to an argument, so this will be my last post.  I feel like I have made some great points in defense of IGN posting their review before getting the day 1 patch, and it feels (to me) like you are being very biased because you wanted your game to perform better.  If you like that game then great, buy it, enjoy it.  And if you are sad because you feel that these reviews might hurt the sales, well, keep in mind that the ps4 is selling extremely well and so has every game that has come out for it, so you shouldn't be worried about lack of sales for LBP3.

I had other things to say about what you had just posted, but I feel that pointing out errors in someones post is very pointless, and will only turn a discussion into an argument quicker.

Good day.

Again with making hasty assumptions and sadly, you've missed the point entirely. This is less of an issue of whether LBP3 scores well and whether its sales are affected by the reviews. This is a matter of integrity in journalists, and you're giving them too much credit and leeway. What you have also missed is that points weren't docked just for bugs (which were immediately fixed, mind you), sites took points off for lacking content. Some of them only went through the campaign and judged the game based on that. However, the LBP franchise is known for user-generated content. Heck, levels from previous games are compatable with LBP3, so "lacking content", as some sites have claimed, is far, far away from the truth.

As for the bugs, IGN isn't being consistent. Assassin's Creed: Unity suffered from even worse and more frequent bugs and yet, it scored a full point higher. There are several (hilarious) GIFs that show how bad AC: U's bugs are and not all of them are fixed yet! In contrast, LBP3's problems were fixed Day One with no hassle.

And back to the IGN review, it doesn't take that long to put an update on their review. All they gotta do is download the patch, see if the issues are solved, update their review with a few sentences or a small paragraph, and let readers know. It's that simple and doesn't take "hundreds of dollars" to do.