DanneSandin said:
oniyide said:
DanneSandin said:
The sad thing is, if you wanna get an honest review you mpre or less HAVE to go to one of the bigger sites since the smaller ones might be dishonest about the score. And even the bigger sites might be forced to adjust the final score to please some publishers.
What we as gamers really should do is buying paper magazines instead. That way the magazine isn't dependent on ad revenue and can't be forced by publishers to give better scores to certain games.
But we're all too fucking lazy and CHEAP to do that, aren't we? We want everything for free and on our terms. WE have created this situation, no matter how indirect |
I understand your frustration but i think you are being a little cynical. Magazines were just another casualty of the world becoming more digital. A couple of publications went away outside of gaming. But what are people to do now? I cant speak for everyone but i have a subcription to Game Informer, gamers hate that publication because of its ties to Gamestop (unfortunate as it is legit good), Sony doesnt have there PSM anymore, there is PC world (not everyone is PC gamer), Xbox magazine (not everyone is an Xbox gamer) and EGM which is only quarterly? are they even still doing print or did that die again?
And lets be real do you think people really want to wait a month to see if a game is good or not?
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I completely agree with you here. I understand WHY paper magazines aren't doing so well, but a consequens of that is that gaming media is dependent on ad rev - which is the core problem we're talking about. Just because digital is the next logical step, doesn't make it a good/better one.
What game publishers COULD do to ease some of these problems, is to give paper magazines BIG exclusives, so as to drive people to that media. However, then we end up with the opposite problem: the publishers having such a strong grip over magazine publishers... So I don't really know what to do here...
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oh i agree i dont know why people are so in love with digital. Unless its significantly cheaper. I'll go with hard copies. Thats not just games, books, movies, music. Movies have the right idea. Buy the bluray and get a digital copy.
Funny thing is that Game Informer gets just that, exclusive previews on stuff no one else is getting but as you said that opens up another problem...yeah we're screwed
