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http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/fox-news-columnist-out-after-wolverine-review-ap

Obviously, this is a movie review, not a gaming one. However, I considered it relavant as a launching point for gaming related discussion:

In gaming, getting "leaks" or "early reviews" out is not only acceptable, it is praised, as if being the first one to tell us how totally awesome the next big blockbuster is justifies the sacrifice in integrity and authority.

By comparison, the first time a well known, 10 year veteran film reviewer posts an early review, he is fired immediately.

 

Just thought the comparison was stark, and further highlights the distinctions in film and game criticism, and why film criticism is taken so much more seriously than gaming criticism is by journalism at large.



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that was mighty stupid of him.



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He was reviewing a stolen copy of the movie.

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11/20/09 04:25 makingmusic476 Warning Other (Your avatar is borderline NSFW. Please keep it for as long as possible.)

What do you people think game sites do? How often do we see people go nuts about leaks from their favorite developers? What do you think those "rumor" pages in EGM and similar magazines are?

And yet, our respons isn't, "maybe we shouldn't be discussing unauthorized information," but "omg omg hype hype hype!"

 

 



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I guarantee that if a site broke the review date that game companies sometimes set, there would be consequences.



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JaggedSac said:
I guarantee that if a site broke the review date that game companies sometimes set, there would be consequences.

Well they don't really set review dates the same way as movie companies.

Afterall Videogame companies say "You can't review the game untill 3 weeks after it's been released unless you give it an 80 or higher."

If a movie studio tried to put a star limit on movie reviews.... they just don't.  They'd get blasted.

 



Kasz216 said:
JaggedSac said:
I guarantee that if a site broke the review date that game companies sometimes set, there would be consequences.

Well they don't really set review dates the same way as movie companies.

Afterall Videogame companies say "You can't review the game untill 3 weeks after it's been released unless you give it an 80 or higher."

If a movie studio tried to put a star limit on movie reviews.... they just don't.  They'd get blasted.

 

Actually, no, game companies say, "do not publish a review of this game until after this date".  Said date is usually a week or two before the release of the game.  They usually send the games to reviewers early and provide a letter explaining the rules of publication.  Ask madskillz, he goes through this all the time.

 



Kasz216 said:
JaggedSac said:
I guarantee that if a site broke the review date that game companies sometimes set, there would be consequences.

Well they don't really set review dates the same way as movie companies.

Afterall Videogame companies say "You can't review the game untill 3 weeks after it's been released unless you give it an 80 or higher."

If a movie studio tried to put a star limit on movie reviews.... they just don't.  They'd get blasted.

 

 

 That's the producer side of things, and I agree that's also heavily manipulated.

Right now I'm discussing the consumer side, though. In film criticism, any attempts like these are viewed as hackery: Roger Friedman's name is now anathema in the industry, more or less. By comparison, we encourage game critics to engage in this sort of behavior. Give us the review a month before the game comes out: fight over exclusive reviews; feed us a constant stream of rumors and leaks that may or may not be authorized and may or may not have a reliable source.

 



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Bodhesatva said:
Kasz216 said:
JaggedSac said:
I guarantee that if a site broke the review date that game companies sometimes set, there would be consequences.

Well they don't really set review dates the same way as movie companies.

Afterall Videogame companies say "You can't review the game untill 3 weeks after it's been released unless you give it an 80 or higher."

If a movie studio tried to put a star limit on movie reviews.... they just don't.  They'd get blasted.

 

 

 That's the producer side of things, and I agree that's also heavily manipulated.

Right now I'm discussing the consumer side, though. In film criticism, any attempts like these are viewed as hackery: Roger Friedman's name is now anathema in the industry, more or less. By comparison, we encourage game critics to engage in this sort of behavior. Give us the review a month before the game comes out: fight over exclusive reviews; feed us a constant stream of rumors and leaks that may or may not be authorized and may or may not have a reliable source.

 

True... but i mean it's slightly different isn't it?  The Early reviews are approved of rather then stolen...

because they're promised good reviews.

It's bothersome that people don't call out these people but at the same time... if some movie guy got to see a movie early adn wrote a review on it authorized i think people would be happy.

 



I guess leaks like that happen more often in movie world than games world. Or atleast i think so.
Usually all the "leaks" are more or less mesenated by the publisher to create hype, not so much of reviewing illegal content.



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