I just don't believe the conspiracy theories that companies are paying for review scores on the major websites.
Is there any hard evidence of this going on, other than that Gamespot kerfuffle years and years ago? Don't you think we'd be hearing more about if there was?
I never said any of that. All I mean is that it's the nature of the relationship. Early access to games is only had by maintaining a good working relationship with the people producing them. Thus you have the 7-10 scale.