Question:
Lets say that you were a reviewer who had to review Half-Life 2. And the day before you begin writing up the review you got a phone call from a Bungee representative who said they would pay you $100,000 if you created your review of Half-Life 2 with a pessemistic tone, and to make sure that it's score is atleast 0.1 point below Halo 2. Let's also say that you were %100 sure noone would ever find out, as it was completly discreet and fullproof. Question is simply would you do it?
Something I believe is a possibility:
I believe Gamespots offices is in a similair setup such that their offices and employee's are seperated into groups, one group is Playstation, another is Xbox, another PC, etc. Now I can picture it now.. Throughout the developement months of Halo 2 and Half-Life 2, the managers of the console and PC groups would battle out, claiming which is the best group to be in. Then one day, the PC guys make a bold claim, "If your best halo fanboy reviewer was to be review Half-Life 2 also instead of our native PC reviewers, we bet he would become a PC follower!!". And then it was done, and we all just read the review on Gamespot for Half-Life 2. Written by a Halo 2 fan, who was pessimistic and cynical in his review for the purpose of keeping his ego, since admiting defeat is very hard to do.
WELL IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED!!
Que the conspiracys!! AHHH
Lets say that you were a reviewer who had to review Half-Life 2. And the day before you begin writing up the review you got a phone call from a Bungee representative who said they would pay you $100,000 if you created your review of Half-Life 2 with a pessemistic tone, and to make sure that it's score is atleast 0.1 point below Halo 2. Let's also say that you were %100 sure noone would ever find out, as it was completly discreet and fullproof. Question is simply would you do it?
Something I believe is a possibility:
I believe Gamespots offices is in a similair setup such that their offices and employee's are seperated into groups, one group is Playstation, another is Xbox, another PC, etc. Now I can picture it now.. Throughout the developement months of Halo 2 and Half-Life 2, the managers of the console and PC groups would battle out, claiming which is the best group to be in. Then one day, the PC guys make a bold claim, "If your best halo fanboy reviewer was to be review Half-Life 2 also instead of our native PC reviewers, we bet he would become a PC follower!!". And then it was done, and we all just read the review on Gamespot for Half-Life 2. Written by a Halo 2 fan, who was pessimistic and cynical in his review for the purpose of keeping his ego, since admiting defeat is very hard to do.
WELL IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED!!
Que the conspiracys!! AHHH
