does every game get dropped down in average by unknown sites?

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Fishie said:

Let me give you an example, in order to get early access for review purposes for GTAIV you had to sign an NDA and play the game at the Rockstar offices, you didnt get a review copy to take away with you to your website or magazine or whatever.

Nope you had to play the game at their offices over the course of one or two work days so basiclly the reviewers had a maximum of 16 hours with the game with a Rockstar employee constantly watching over their shoulder telling them how awesome feature A or feature B was and how great it would be if they would go bowling now or try a stunt jump or whatever.

this is of course not the way a game is ussually played so the access and play was altered to favour the game instead of the enjoyment of the player.

refuse the contract and you simply didnt get any access to the game.

 

Then sites who either refused or didnt even get invited to get early access actually BUY the game and play it without time constraints or a PR person looking over their shoulder telling them how awesome the game is and what they should do next and suddenly the REAL, HONEST and UNINFLUENCED oppinions come out and you call that a BAD thing?

 

are you sure,i think thats thecase with just a few games,usually alot of sites say they received there review copys,and while playing them in their offics they sometimes put videos up,previews etc