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Square Enix intimidated a reviewer to change a review score for Final Fantasy XII, accusations of lying, suggested "correct" content for the review
- Thread starter Toumari
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I would like to see her review and what the supposedly incorrect information was.
Edit: She just sent it to me and I'm going through it, won't share because it's under her dead name.
Edit: She just sent it to me and I'm going through it, won't share because it's under her dead name.
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That's extremely pitiful from Square Enix, even worse that this is an HD release of a 14 year old game.
That's the funniest part. Why the hell is Square getting all pissy about a review of a PS4 port of a PS2 game?
Yeah the fact that this is over a remaster is the most surprising thing. Really bizarre to do it over a game everyone already knows well.
I would like to personally thank these publishers for giving even the slightest bit of legitimacy to the gamergate style incel nerds that complain about paid reviews, fake news, and media conspiracies.
FFS the whole industry needs a cleanup from top to bottom.
Edit: As consumers it would suit us better to wait after till launch for reviews to trickle in. The games shouldn't be donated they should be bought.
Edit: As consumers it would suit us better to wait after till launch for reviews to trickle in. The games shouldn't be donated they should be bought.
Not in gaming journalism but "correct paragraphs" is such a common (and disgusting) practice, even over trivial stuff. This is a systemic problem that far extends beyond gaming and everyone should keep that in mind when they have to deal with PR.
I thought this would be back when the OG game released, but no... they mean when the remaster hit. WTF?
This has been a well known practice for many years now. I've heard about it for well over a decade. I'm surprised a lot of people here didn't know it was a thing.
Should be em-
-powering these reviewers. Would love to read the review, even if I'll likely disagree with it.
In that case, it was KochMedia the Spanish distributor that blacklisted the site.
I'm not at all surprised to hear that this happened, but I'm happy that it's going to be one of many examples exposing companies of deploying shady tactics like this. The industry needs every bandaid ripped off so we can see the wounds.
For every honest reviewer that speaks up about this shit I'm sure there are going to be outlets that will just accept this and change their score. It's why I usually don't take reviews too seriously.
There's also Bethesda with RAGE in 2010. Yeah, this is an industry-wide issue.
This is why I don't read reviews anymore. If I know that I'll enjoy a game, I'll get it regardless of reviews.
This is why I don't read reviews anymore. If I know that I'll enjoy a game, I'll get it regardless of reviews.
Yup. Anyone else remember Jeff Gerstmann being fired from Gamespot because of his Kane & Lynch review?
A review they went and edited and changed the score of after he was fired.
well square you know you don't have to bribe that we will keep buying a ff games no matter if it scored 6 or even 5
Compare the FFXIII reviews to the XIII-2 reviews. That one is WILD.
Virtually all of them say "this game improves on the previous game and corrects most issues" while giving it a lower score overall.
The obvious takeaway is that the pressure to review XIII-2 well just wasn't there as it was for XIII
I mean this is hardly the first case of this type of review meddling by publishers, and it's not like gamergate ever actually tried to highlight the actual real known examples of such things (probably because both involved parties in those cases had been men anyways)
I understand PR departments contacting reviewers and journalists in cases in which the information publised about a game is objectively wrong (say, misinformation about features, unconfirmed rumors, etc) even if it's a review, but not for personal opinions over a game. It seems weird that they would do this for a remaster of a game that was originally released over a decade ago, too.
I'll happily give Nier: Automata a 10/10 for a Yoko Taro print. I wouldn't even be lying. Best game of this generation.
On topic... this isn't a good look for game companies. I've dropped looking at numbered reviews scores all together because it obscures whether or not I'll actually like the game.
Destiny for instance rated something like a 7 and I put 400 hours into it. Killer Instinct was a 6 or a 7 as reviewed at launch but it became such an amazing game over time. The Last of Us 2 might be an amazing game but on a numbered score list but if you're just looking at the score you might miss aspects of the review that would show you "this might not be for you if you thought the last game was just the right length".
On topic... this isn't a good look for game companies. I've dropped looking at numbered reviews scores all together because it obscures whether or not I'll actually like the game.
Destiny for instance rated something like a 7 and I put 400 hours into it. Killer Instinct was a 6 or a 7 as reviewed at launch but it became such an amazing game over time. The Last of Us 2 might be an amazing game but on a numbered score list but if you're just looking at the score you might miss aspects of the review that would show you "this might not be for you if you thought the last game was just the right length".
For me personally, GFW Radio being gone was a huge loss in learning about industry BS. They used to talk so openly and candidly about review and publisher PR relations. I remember them reading off the review "guide" for Halo 3 sent by Microsoft. And on numerous occasions, they mentioned being contacted by publishers when they gave unfavorable reviews.
I mean it is the truth behind the game makers and game media . TO the game makers the game media are noting more the marketing tools and the game media needs the game makers to send them cotent and games.
Well, I also think that XIII-2 fixes most of XIII issues and still is a worse game than the original.
Coming from the Hookah community this is the exact same thing there just worse because you got threatend with violence which was the reason we started buying the products ourselves so that we were able to give reviews without having been paid.
Really shameless from videogame publishers to do that. Seriously :/
Really shameless from videogame publishers to do that. Seriously :/
It's really terrible square Enix did this, but I can't help but find the situation completely hysterical that they fucking did this over a port. Not some big new release (which I'm sure they did as well) , but they really went out of their way to intimidate someone over a decade+ old port. Wow.
