Want a good review? Bribe me!

[BogusMeatFactory]

I hear a lot of things from a lot of people on the internet.

[mjmjr25]

I got paid to make this post.

[Beak]

Now, this is an unsubstantiated claim, but you would be a fool to believe that there isn't ostensibly pressure for good reviews from big publishers in some situations (of which I'm too unmotivated to foment).

[SpoonyBard]

Now, this is an unsubstantiated claim, but you would be a fool to believe that there isn't ostensibly pressure for good reviews from big publishers in some situations (of which I'm too unmotivated to foment).

I have no doubt in my mind that publishers attempt to bribe reviewers into giving them favorable reviews. But the fact that TheRev is saying specific people are accepting bribes with absolutely no evidence whatsoever to back it up is nothing short of heinous.

I don't need to hire a PI. Johnathan Holmes and I just got done talking on twitter. From what he and another reviewer told me is everyone is in business for themsleves over there. The PC Review editor told me he isn't paid at all for his reviews but he couldn't speak for others.

When I mentioned the argument I had with the over all reviews editor Holmes siad he couldn't blame me for being as suspcious as I was.

SO there you go. MAYBE or maybe not. But if anyone is taking bribes it's under the table it's not the site taking the payment.

@reverendjohnw if you want to see the convo.

So, this started by you wanting to write for a website, looking at Destructoid and disagreeing with a review you saw.

Then you went on their forums and attacked their integrity with no evidence but your hunch.

When you were banned (as any reasonable person would've done with you at that point) you determined that was evidence enough that they were accepting bribes and not just that they didn't want someone using their bandwidth to pointlessly attack them without evidence.

So you came here with your point, where you were asked for evidence and supplied us with some blog that you probably looked up at the moment you were asked to come up with something. That blog didn't agree with you, and it's only source disagreed with you. No idea why you bothered to post that.

Then you put up another source, which also didn't make a point to support your claim. And that source appears to have made up all of their quoted material.

Then you have a twitter conversation with someone who doesn't appear to really dignify your question and you are still maintaining that you may have some kind of point.

So what it all boils down to is...

The indisputable truth is that they reviewed a game he hates and gave it a good score.

That's all it is. You saw a review you disagreed with, accused them of accepting bribes until you got banned, then came here and said "Review gate I know there are quite a few websites that take bribes in exchange for a good review. Destructoid does, they are trying to silence me on blowing the whistle".

This is why you get banned from so many places. Ridiculous posts like this.

[alienjesus]

Review gate I know there are quite a few websites that take bribes in exchange for a good review. Destructoid does, they are trying to silence me on blowing the whistle I remember hearing Gamespot does as well. IGN Hasn't been proven.

Does anybody else knows who takes bribes in exchange for a good review. It shouldn't matter but there are drones that rely on reviews.

If I bribe you, will you improve your punctuation and grammar?

[BoringSupreez]

http://www.p4rgaming.com/game-companies ... y-and-age/

Only one quote from this entire article pops up in a google search, and in every link I clicked, it was all pointing back to this article. Seems fake, much like the accusations your making.

p4rgaming.com is essentially The Onion for videogames. I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess not.

[Jmustang1968]

It is awesome that he used a spoof article as a source to back up his claim.

[graffix_13]

I don't know if there are actual bribes taking place, but it wouldn't surprise me. However I definitely think there are more informal types of...."bribes" in the sense of site advertising.

For instance, I remember GTA IV. I know some people liked the game, but most people thought it was crap. I remember reading the IGN review and thought there is NO WAY this game is a '10'. Then I noticed the page was pretty much an entire GTA IV ad. Ahhhh then it hit me on how it got that '10'.

What better way to get that ad revenue than getting a big company like R* to buy ad space? Why, a great review for their product of course!

(I'm not saying this is truth as I have no concrete evidence, but it's all just a little suspect).

[Jmustang1968]

Im not a big GTA fan, but I dont think many thought it was crap. Too often we resort to the extremes. Games are either crap or amazing.

[graffix_13]

Im not a big GTA fan, but I dont think many thought it was crap. Too often we resort to the extremes. Games are either crap or amazing.

True, true. "Crap" was probably too strong a word. I would say it was more of an average/slightly above average game.