Quoting: Colombo

Quoting: Eike"Many people talked about it." is so much more convincing...

If such magazines should exist - don't buy them. Buy quality magazines.

Because this is as old as I am.

One fast example:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-developer-admits-we-screwed-it-after-game-website-exposes-blacklist-threat [External Link]

Or here in rather... long and bit obnoxious article:
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/why-so-many-people-dont-trust-the-gaming-press/ [External Link]

TB also talked about it.

Straight from your link:

And yet, still, a lot of people bash the games press and games critics.

"I think the desire to see conspiracies and corruption in all of the gaming press is largely based on a far wider malaise in the world, of people wishing to demolish notions of expertise or more respected opinions," John Walker of Rock Paper Shotgun said to me over email. "Where once [expertise] was desired, it's now considered arrogant oppression. So when a review disagrees with a reader's strong opinion, it's much more satisfying to conclude the discrepancy is the result of corruption.

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Quoting: Colombo

Yeah, good old conspiracy theories about magazines getting paid for producing free advertising.

Bullshit.

Its not a conspiracy theory, its a fact. Many people talked about it. If journalist won't write positive review, he might no longer get the pre-release copy to review. Which means that he might not be the first or one of the first to review it (since he will have to review it after release), which means that people waiting for said game will not buy that magazine for that review.

I won't try to argue with the argument "bullshit", you got me convinced.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: omer666So the rampant negativity won in the end. Well, whatever...

There's no rampant negativity here.
Just a game that's all-around pretty underwhelming, developed with a mystifying lack of vision or understanding of what people actually liked about the previous games and design decisions that are borderline inane (mobile-junk-like unit unlockables in my RTS game, no thanks).

Even developers themselves are aware of that [External Link].

"Professional" journos liked the game somewhat because they never really play games for long and are mostly just amazed by pretty or pretentious things.

Yeah, good old conspiracy theories about magazines getting paid for producing free advertising. That's why in France, Le Monde disliked it so much... As I said, I don't mind people not liking it. I have the feeling that user bashing prevented the game from having a second life, because there are things done right in this game.

Also, considering I love DoW III's game mechanics and that I hate MOBAs, well I come to the conclusion that I am an E.T. Which is fine, really.

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Wow, that's impressive.

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So the rampant negativity won in the end. Well, whatever...

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: KuduzkehpanWhat if Valve buys microsoft first, then open sources it and removes found unsafe codes :D yea welcome to GNU/windows. maybe then we replace kernel and upstart bla bla bla. dx12 with Vulkan. Yea LoL for the night.

Ha, Then it is discovered that it has been BSD with a shell on it since Windows 8, because they copied Apple?

Just as likely...

Well that would be history repeating itself given that Apple gave ms the GUI and the mouse interface while MS was being courted by apple way back in the late 70's

Not that Apple invented any of those things themselves.

No they stole them from xerox i saw pirates of silcon valley

To be fair, everyone at that time was experimenting with everyone's ideas, that's not as if they were the only ones doing this. Also, that's not as if Xerox was going anywhere close to personal computing with its concept. Companies sell solutions, not ideas.

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Quoting: GuestIf someone ran over you in a Ford car, would you:

a) Blame the driver for being an inattentive wanker driving dangerously
b) Blame Ford for not making their car so it's impossible to run over people

Great analogy. I often run over people with software, and I sometimes happened to think "if only that software prevented me from running over people, that would be amazing".
Then the alarm clock rings and I wake up.

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The very day Microsoft buys Valve, the next day I buy a console.

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If it's Call of Duty, that'll be the first game they port I am not interested in. I'd rather have DooM 2016, even if I don't like it that much, it could buy it on discount.

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Last time I checked, The Witcher 1 ran really well in Wine, so I don't know if a port would be a great idea...

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