colonelstubbs said:
At the end of the day, Konami have spent millions upon millions of dollars to create a game, they are releasing it, its theirs, and if they dont want certain elements of their game being revealed in reviews, so what? They made the game, the reviewers should be grateful they get to play these games before the paying public, and if konami want them to withhold certain details, then they should do it! It would be like me making a short film, and telling people not to spoil the ending, which would be within my right as i made it. |
That's not the same thing at all. It's a given that reviewers are not supposed to give away plot points in a review. Everyone knows that.
What Konami is asking would be more akin to George Lucas demanding that Peter Travers say nothing about the bad dialogue in the Star Wars prequels. It's a major point of any Star Wars review and any reviewer who agrees to those terms is, frankly, a whore to his industry and should be ashamed of himself. He's doing a disservice to himself by agreeing to those terms, giving power to the publisher and enabling them to continue this kind of nonsense in the future. More importantly, he's doing a disservice to his fanbase who rely on his reviews for accuracy and honesty.
After all, if Konami didn't think the cutscenes and install were a bad thing, they never would have put this information embargo on reviewers in the first place. In essence, they're bribing publications to turn their reviews into free advertising in exchange for a few more site clicks and magazine sales.
Sad.
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