@mogan: There's good reason why people say that. Remember when Jeff got fired from Gamespot and it turned out the reason was cause he gave Kane and Lynch 2 a negative review even though the publisher paid for boatloads of front page ads?
Remember when it came out that Sony threatened to pull ad money due to a less-than-stellar Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction review?
I'm not saying money directly changes hands in exchange for positive reviews, but the "Hey if i do this then i'm expecting you to do this" mentality simply has to still happen. Happens with movie, book and especially music media as well on any site that affects Metacritic scores - which is why i ONLY trust Youtube reviews from fans of the actual genre in question. They're usually 30-ish minute reviews that come out much later than the game but they're much more trustable than a review thrown together by somebody in a week to meet video deadlines. Random numbered scores (especially of a massive RPG expansion) mean ansolutely nothing imo
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