They're paid by advertisers to advertise games, how much money they get and how close they get to the developers and publishers biases their reviews. If they stop making money from advertising, maybe their reviews will be less biased.

I tell them, but the part that's relevant to the paid reviews discussion is that Arkham Origins wasn't heavily advertised on Gamespot. Why are you even pointing to ManVsGame as if that proves me wrong? That's weak.

Arkham Origins wasn't technically flawless, it was cobbled together bits of the last game with less content, lots of performance issues and bugs that I don't know how they managed, and the game sucks compared to Arkham City which was released years ago and is available in a bundle for cheap on Steam.

And Arkham Origins wasn't all that heavily advertised, and still got a 6 out of 10. I don't know what alternate reality you're living in where a 6 out of 10 is a bad score.

If the future, most businesses will be worker owned, and going to wok will be fun and an opportunity to socialize.

Higher FPS makes a big different in First Person Shooters.

FPS for FPS

That's probably the best way to combat the paid reviews :)

The reviews are also called marketing.