I don’t know why people still take IGN or other “gaming journalists” serious. They’ve proven years ago they are bought, will promote anything for enough money and most of them are neither gamers nor journalists. Just remember the dude from IGN or kotaku or whatever it was who needed like 10 minutes for the cuphead tutorial …

Crimson Desert is amazing by the way!

Publishers don’t need to pay for good reviews. The implicit understanding is bad reviews = no early copies -> someone else post their review before you and THEY get the clicks.

Or send us our talking points.

Wait, this isn’t antiquememes… oh god, please tell me folks aren’t really trying to bring back “ethical games journalism” discourse.