!!!many of these gamereviewers used to be enthousiastic gamers who bought games and for the heck of it tried to inform people on it, nowadays they've "grown" into bussineses who compete with each other.
I don't think they get a kick back from the games revenue, what I think is that they depend on advertising revenue, advertising revenue is based on the number of hits your site get's and with a gaming site the number of hits depend on how many new titles you (p)review..and I believe that this is were our dear friend the publisher comes in and says, yeah you could say my game is crap, but it might happen that you recieve the demo a bit later tan you are used to...or maybe we forget to do it ...
Another thing that makes gamereviewers obsolete imo is that they play the game for a to short amount of time, sure Skyrim is fun the first 10 hour and yes of course you don't expect from a hardcore game like diablo 3 that you get the good loot the first 5 hours of pointless dungeon roaming ...they never experience the full game and i have a suspicion that the devs no this and develop on it.
Don't laugh but after seeing all the disappointing games and movies come out, seeing franchises with a lot of potential blown to smithereens, but especially after ME3, I wanted to step right in a bank and ask what does it cost to make me a game/movie and not because I am this grand entrepeneur, but just to have something out there that isn't solely based on revenue shares and marketing morons ( I have a tech-sales job and I can say that most-not all- marketing people are full of hot air), but about making something great.
the only ray of light movie wise this year was TinTin and gamewise I am hoping Thief 4 won't disappoint....
Starting a gamescompany still hasn't left my mind, just don't now where to start
..it has day 1 DLC which contains a main character
