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Regarding Sessler's "bad news" about the industry
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soulassssns
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WOW!
SaggyMonkey
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Claims like this require evidence.
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Deleted member 17706
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"Big devs?" This guy is full of shit.
jediyoshi
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Gamers would adjust. Like waiting for the late reviews, and then waiting for the first price drop. I don't believe this story is true, but if it were, I'd pay the devs back by never paying full price for their games. Ever.
Freezasaurus
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Absolutely. It's a step down from review embargoes. Instead of limiting the damage a shitty review can do to sales by not letting it be posted until launch day, now they could in theory eliminate bad reviews for their shitty games entirely.
adamantypants
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I know plenty of reviewers already buy games out of pocket to review for the site when they don't get review copies. I'm more than happy to wait a week or two for a review if it meant that reviewers didn't have to stick to this bullshit.
Yeah if it was that bad they could buy the game themselves and review it after it was out not being bound to any terms, but they're all so worried about having their review out before everyone else to get them clicks. (That's if this was true.)
disastermouse
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How could they?
Basically, this will relegate the big 'first review' sites to irrelevancy and the bloggers will be the sources to go to. I don't like what this will do to Metacritic inflation, though.
That's what I said myself.
freenudemacusers
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hmm, does this mean if we create threads with every possible reason for the "bad news", does this mean you will eventually pinpoint what is true?
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A guy who covers games would not mistake developers and publishers.
I think that Youtube thing's more likely, they HAVE approached Notch about monetizing Minecraft footage and honestly Nintendo doesn't seem like the kind of company that'd aggressively want to monetize Youtube videos, so it's probably more someone at Youtube thought it was a good idea for whatever reason (they could've had issues with other companies that felt they deserved it and there IS a logic to it: it's footage of their games afterall) and decided to start aggressively approaching companies about this. Not realizing how much it fucks up something we took for granted with magazines and even TV shows in the past.
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