Bethesda Announced Anti-Consumer Review Policy

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pokoko said:

binary solo said:
Consumers have a response if they want to take it. Stop pre-ordering Bethesda games. But no, too many gamers love their favourite publishers and will see shit as prime steak if it comes out of their butts (not specific to Bethesda fans), and so the opposite will happen. A lot of gamers (enough for Bethesda to feel vindicated and for other publishers to follow suite) will see the media's negativity to this as the actual evil, and will pre-order with greater fervour than they did before.

I enjoyed the Total Biscuit video on this. Haven't watched the video in the OP. Too many Jim Sterling haters around here to give him props for his take on this. But when TB and Jim Fucking Sterling Son see squarely eye to eye on a subject people should really pay attention.

Why?  Who the hell are they?  Youtubers who make money off talking about games?  As an appeal to authority, that fails.  They mean nothing to me.  I don't even know what that is supposed to signify.

This is pretty simple.  All the power is in the hands of the consumers and they can do what they want.  If they want to pre-order then more power to them.  It's their money.  If they want to wait to for reviews, more power to them.  People really need to stop telling other people what to do with their money.  The only ones really hurt by this are those used to being treated like video-game Royalty because they get code early.  Video-game "personalities" are the last thing in the world I give a damn about.  

Youtubers who are actually unaffected by such tactics because their income and their audience are not reliant on them having reviews out on the day or before a game is released who are examining the situation from a broader perspective.