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You know, I just read that comic yesterday. Definitely badass.
It'll be interesting to see if any of the magazines actually sink low enough to do this... their review would always be somewhat suspect.
How will you know though, Elsa? Every publication that ends up giving Arkham a 90 or higher is a potential sellout? Will the game actually be reviewed lower than it should be for the sole purpose of appearing to not be bought?
Edios just made is so that any score around the 80-100 mark for this game has lost any sort of assurance in the publication's believability. Either the reviewers will be seen as sellouts or pussies afraid to be sellouts, whether or not either is actually true.
Being the first with the review will boost sales for the publication in a time where print media is dying. Putting it on the cover will boost sales for the game. No problem there, but when you have a carrot on the stick with requiring a 90+ percent, no matter how the publication reacts they will be put into doubt. I honestly don't care about this game but Eidos is something I do care about and to see them dicking around like this to get free advertising and higher reviews takes the fucking cake.
Video-game journalism is fucked up. We need the sort of critical freedom enjoyed by the other entertainment industries- fucktards like Eidos need to realise that the consumer has the power, not them.