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OTBWY said:
COKTOE said:

I've read/heard too much about it I don't like to give it a shake, and I have a pretty big hate-on for Activision in general. Destiny 2 was the first game on PS+ I never even bothered to add to my library.  I've no doubt it has some great qualities tho. The gunplay comes up a lot.


They've been what I would describe as terrible for a ridiculously long time. Over a decade since I've been observing. I'm going to assume there's been turnover on the staff. I mean, it's been a WHILE, yet their tendency to dole out eye-poppingly out of step reviews has remained consistent. The review scores they hand out must be mandated for reasons you touched on. Make themselves stand out. Get some negative attention. Get some clicks.

I'm sorry but I disagree Coktoe. EDGE is a paper magazine based on a subscription model. It's not the same. 

The only reason people hate EDGE is because they gave their favourite franchise or platform's game a bad review. Nothing more, nothing less. In this regard, a certain group started hating them because of their recent scores of a certain platforms exclusives.

That's absolutely untrue and an unfounded assumption on your part.  The problems people have had with EDGE go back years.  As long as I've been reading gaming forums, in fact, and well before I joined VGC.  I even remember the Rockstar controversy.  Rather, it looks like EDGE has suddenly earned a lot of new defenders who act like this is something new.

And, yes, people dislike EDGE because they give their favorite games low scores.  Why wouldn't they?  What better reason could possibly exist?  From a personal standpoint, they are probably the publication that I trust the least and that's an opinion developed over a long period of time.