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jlauro on 10 July 2009
Galaki said:
Come on guys. Stop denying the truth. IGN has been bought.

 

Yeah, right...  Even EA requires at least a 90 when they buy a review.



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Galaki on 10 July 2009
jlauro said:
Galaki said:
Come on guys. Stop denying the truth. IGN has been bought.

Yeah, right...  Even EA requires at least a 90 when they buy a review.

They were low on budget.



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amp316 on 10 July 2009

Before IGN gave the Conduit press no one even new it existed.

I'd thank them too if I were High Voltage.

Also, High Voltage was just showing off that they could spell Matt Cassassamina's name.



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Esa-Petteri on 14 July 2009

Pretty obvious. IGN has been giving way too high scores for wii games always.



**Slash** on 14 July 2009

here are some secret excerpts i came across of conversation between an unnamed IGN staff and HVS

" ok ok i rate ur game high but make sure i'm in the credits ok ??????"

"damn you guys spelled my name wrong, now i'm gonna give u only a 8.6 rating"




   

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theRepublic on 14 July 2009
jlauro said:
dsister44 said:
jlauro said:
Ari_Gold said:
Nintendogamer said:
Ari_Gold said:
yeah pretty much, i wrote this a week ago, this makes the ign review look unprofessional, and its too much of a coincidence that ign gave the conduit the highest rating....

Nope IGN has given the 3rd highest, worth playing has given the 2nd highest. Bigbag has given the highest, they gave it Grade S which is more than 9/10

what type of credibility do those sites have?

More then the two sites that gave it a 4/10 in my book.


Why? because you do not agree with their reviews? That is a awesome reason why not to like a reviewer.

Exactly.  It's not just because I don't agree with the score which would be less awsome of a reason, but because of the reveiw itself.  Their review has little basis in reality, and contains out right lies,  If they clearly can not do this review half way credibly, that is a major blow to their credibility for all their reviews.  They are less trust worthy then some reveiwer I know nothing about.

I agree and would add more to that.

If your tastes differ wildly from the tastes of a reviewer, why would you like that reviewer?  You wouldn't.  Their reviews would be worthless to you.



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Zucas on 14 July 2009

They helped get them a publisher by being the only site that would give them media attention. I mean of course they are going to thank them. Not thanking them would be rude haha. Sure there is going to be a little bias in the review because of it but that is on Matt and Mark's side not necessarily HVS paying them off.



mike_intellivision on 14 July 2009

Why is it in this thread you can almost predict who is going to say what based upon what they have said before about the Wii?

In truth, since IGN championed the game when it was still in the alpha phase, there is (a) reason for HVS to thank IGN and (b) reason that IGN would like the game.

But remember the hatchet job that Matt did no Wii Music. I bring this up to show that IGN has been biased in both directions.

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izaaz101 on 14 July 2009
**Slash** said:
here are some secret excerpts i came across of conversation between an unnamed IGN staff and HVS

" ok ok i rate ur game high but make sure i'm in the credits ok ??????"

"damn you guys spelled my name wrong, now i'm gonna give u only a 8.6 rating"

That is a blatant lie. What you are suggesting is incomprehensible......that the reviewers finished the game (in order to see that their names were misspelled). EVERYONE knows that reviewers do not finish games before reviewing......they simply see the size on the cheque.



**Slash** on 15 July 2009
izaaz101 said:
**Slash** said:
here are some secret excerpts i came across of conversation between an unnamed IGN staff and HVS

" ok ok i rate ur game high but make sure i'm in the credits ok ??????"

"damn you guys spelled my name wrong, now i'm gonna give u only a 8.6 rating"

That is a blatant lie. What you are suggesting is incomprehensible......that the reviewers finished the game (in order to see that their names were misspelled). EVERYONE knows that reviewers do not finish games before reviewing......they simply see the size on the cheque.


but but u can watch the credits in the options right? riiiiight?



   

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