[quote=@SleepingSilence]
[@Vilageidiotx] Well if they are being paid, sure that's fine. But does it really hurt to mention that in the review? Say its paid promotion, is it really that hard? It's some very simple things that they wanted.
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Because we don't seem to like that sort of thing culturally. Paid promotions to us are commercials, so less people will pay attention (in theory at least). Paid advertisement websites aren't going to be looked at the same way that a review website is. It's just the nature of the platform really, and I don't see that changing.

[quote=@Dinh AaronMk]
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When clicks bring ad revenue too there's not much that can be done except for totally avoiding them all together.

But at least with movie reviews I don't know if there's any cases - at least that I've heard - where film reviewers get paid off by MGM. But if Batman vs Superman is to suggest anything than a movie that can absolutely bomb in the reviews can still get picked up by the people who'll buy tickets.
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I've never heard of bribed movie reviews either. But I did allude to those guys having patronage from newspapers, putting them in what would be an all together more respectable place then the over-blown blogs that constitute most video game websites. 

Another thing too, which I think makes the GG entirely unnecessary as far as subjects go, is that there are plenty of youtube vidja reviewers who do a way better job at cultivating a relationship with their viewers. Which is to say, IGN and Kotoku are kind of outmoded anyway really.