You admit that you don't know and yet you made your claims earlier. That's not a smart thing to do and it only increases my suspicion of whether your arguments hold water. You just cannot make such hasty conclusions like that. That's why I said you should know better.

As for the second bolded, of course it costs more money. A single cent more will count as "more money". And with the example I provided above, it would not cost that much more anyways. Just a few sentences that are to the point and easy peasy. Just like that.

This is quickly turning from a discussion to an argument, so this will be my last post.  I feel like I have made some great points in defense of IGN posting their review before getting the day 1 patch, and it feels (to me) like you are being very biased because you wanted your game to perform better.  If you like that game then great, buy it, enjoy it.  And if you are sad because you feel that these reviews might hurt the sales, well, keep in mind that the ps4 is selling extremely well and so has every game that has come out for it, so you shouldn't be worried about lack of sales for LBP3.

I had other things to say about what you had just posted, but I feel that pointing out errors in someones post is very pointless, and will only turn a discussion into an argument quicker.

Good day.

Again with making hasty assumptions. This is less of an issue of whether LBP3 scores well and whether its sales are affected by the reviews. This is a matter of integrity in journalists. What you have also missed is that points weren't docked just for bugs (which were immediately fixed, mind you), sites took points off for lacking content. Some of them only went through the campaign and judged the game based on that. However, the LBP franchise is known for user-generated content. Heck, levels from previous games are compatable with LBP3, so "lacking content", as some sites have claimed, is far, far away from the truth.

As for the bugs, IGN isn't being consistent. Assassin's Creed: Unity suffered from even worse and more frequent bugs and yet, it scored a full point higher. There are several (hilarious) GIFs that show how bad AC: U's bugs are and not all of them are fixed yet! In contrast, LBP3's problems were fixed Day One with no hassle.

And back to the IGN review, it doesn't take that long to put an update on their review. All they gotta do is download the patch, see if the issues are solved, update their review with a few sentences or a small paragraph, and let readers know. It's that simple and doesn't take "hundreds of dollars" to do.

The review was already written, they were just waiting for the embargo to lift.  Why should they have to download a patch and then play the game all over?  That makes no sense from a business stand point.  If they already played the game and wrote the review, there is no point for them to do that again.  From a business standpoint, they just paid a journalist probably hundreds dollars depending on how much that journalist makes, to write this review.  And now you are asking them to pay hundreds more because a new patch came out?  That makes 0 sense.

Can you really review a game on content that hasn't been made yet, or content that wasn't included with the game? Seems like a slippery slope that...

Oh yeah I forgot that reviewing games is all about business now and not giving an honest review to the people who make that business viable. 

Sadly gaming journalism has gone down the same route UBI, EA and Activision have. 

Can you really review a game on content that hasn't been made yet, or content that wasn't included with the game? Seems like a slippery slope that...

Yes, of course. That's what LBP is all about.

The story levels are far more imaginitive and clever than any other LBP game and are about 6-7 hours long. The Popit Puzzles are new to the franchise and are about 5 hours long. But these are built purely and simply to give you a taster of what is possible and to give you all the ingredients to fullfil your OWN potential. Some people get it, some people don't. IGN got it with LBP2 (for some reason ignoring the bugs in that) but didn't get it with LBP3 (somehow docking points because of bugs). Someone who understands the franchise should have reviewed it, not someone completely ignorant of it.

This game is a 10/10 and SUMO should be commended, not forever tainted with the fact they created the lowest scoring LBP game to date. They've created the BEST LBP game to date.