It truly amazes me how many people in this thread are trying to justify what are obviously very skewed reviews that we regularly see for games that turn out to suck. All you have to do is look at the majority of reviews for EA titles that GameSpot does to see the bias. Yet people are trying to act as if there's a fair reason for it. That's like saying that Fox News' or CNN's strong bias towards the Bush administration is justified because "Well, he is in power and all you know." Journalists are supposed to be fair and objective, that's the whole point. Maybe if a bunch of these gaming magazines and web sites would stand up to the publishers and go "You know, if you cut out all your advertising from all our publications, your game won't sell.", the publishers would stop strong-arming them. The reason publishers get away with releasing incomplete crap like DX:IW is because a lot of people buy them based on the reviews and then put up with waiting for patch after patch after patch which never actually fixes the main problem. If people want quality products, then they have to demand it instead of just going "EA sucks! Now where's my next Sims expansion?"
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