Gamespot reviewers, and not finishing games.

[Faxanadu]

Shanobi said:

Faxanadu said:
You are not right. Playing all games thoroughly would mean they have to hire more reviewers, meaning costs rise for the review site.

Other than that, I agree. They need to review games as thoroughly as necessary to score them. Anubis II would need not a lot of play time, whereas Mario Kart Wii would need that.

 

 Well, I assume each individual review is an individual job, and many reviewers are not on staff, they are independant contractors. Assuming that, each job=(x) dollars. Each critic, according to this guy, is trying to take as many of those reviews as they can, so they can get those (x) dollars for each review. It's just like working at a local newspaper, many of the stories aren't written by staff writers, they're contracted writers, and photographers.

So, assuming they're working with contracted workers, giving 2 games to one reviewer will cost the same as giving 1 game to one reviewer, and another to a second.

Under that assumption you are right.

How are the guys at IGN being paid? As contractors? As regular employees? Also, if they need longer for a certain job, the contractors might ask for more money to make enough for a living...