Exclusive: Critics Admit To Lowering Scores For Attention.

[oniyide]

Tachikoma said:

oniyide said:

But if they are major sites why would they have to resort to such tactics to get ad revunue? Wouldnt that defeat the purpose of being a major site? Im not saying they dont do it but i would bet that it seems to be a big issue with smaller sites that are trying to come up.

I mean we all love to say IGNorant but lets be honest here, IGN hasnt really focused on video games in LONG time. I wouldnt be surprised if they get more traffic for "whose gonna be in the next Marvel movie" article than say a review for anything that would be considered a less than AAA game

Smaller sites are the cost of some cheap hosting,  larger sites have staff to employ, servers to pay for,  the corporations that own them want to see a return in investment,  the stakes are much higher. 

 

Being a big site doesnt make them above dirty tactics,  it just makes them better at getting away with it. 

oh am sure. But im talking about lowering a review score just to get traffic specifically. it would benefit a smallter site moreso a larger one. As i said I dont even think most of IGN traffic these days even come from the vido game side.  So it seems like a waste at least to me