ReviewGate: Bethesda and Microsoft are micromanaging Starfield's review MetaScore - in the open!

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Is Microsoft/Betheda micro-managing the META-SCORE of Starfield?

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Nimrota

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PatricianTV mentioned this last week. Small Bethesda/Xbox focused podcasts get access, but not media outlets. Not sure how this can be considered anything but attempting to manipulate the score. Also, I hate reviewers and gaming media as much as the next person (Eurogamer is noxious), but if you're not going to take a stand against them all, why bother with this half assed approach?
 
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Muddasar

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What difference will it make?

In a couple of weeks these reviewers will give their scores and probably be more harsh since Microsoft treated them like dirt.
 
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Say1nMan said:
Apparenty Spawnwave didn't received a review code as well.
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Good, fuck that guy. Why does his ugly ass balding, bejowled face keep showing up on my Youtube recommends despite repeated clicks of the "do not show this channel" button?
 
Dabaus

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All of these guys that got the game late will cuck and give it 10/10s to show how good boys they are for MS so this won’t happen again next time.
 
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Who cares

Some sites are trash and should be blacklisted. Whatever the anti Xbox equivalent of Stervivor is shouldn't get games to review from Xbox

If Xbox games are trash then it will show anyway as always
 
Plextorage

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Gods&Monsters said:
Those are big websites and they're all on Metacritic? Seems very fishy when tons of random influencers already got them like 2 weeks ago (they are not on meta obviously).

Starfield will go down as the biggest astroturfing campaign in video game history. I've never seen something so blatant and everywhere with fake accounts, fake hype and damage control.
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Well, Xbox Era, Windows Central surely got them
 
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Heisenberg007 said:
People who got review codes from Xbox:
  • KidSmoove
  • Nick Spheshal
  • Stevivor
  • Rand
  • Jez Cordon
  • Colt Eastwood
Those who didn't get a code:
  • Metro
  • The Guardian
  • Skill Up
  • Eurogamer (got an hour after the news blew up)
  • Rock Paper Shotgun
  • Edge
  • Bloomberg
  • Axios
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They did Jason Schreier just like that? Despite him throwing more mud Sony's way.... :ROFLMAO:

"Balancing the scales" not paying like it used to. When podcast youtubers get the honey before a "esteemed" member of the press....🥲

What does it takes these days to get a damn review code? Is lack of honor and ethics no longer enough?

But there is a trade-off... a potential biopsy of Starfield dev hell or some other studio drama. You know he gonna be digging that dirt. :LOL:
 
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Vertigo

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They’re definitely pulling some shit. I don’t agree with free copies to begin with but Skillup is probably the only dude in the industry that does an honest job.

This is strictly to rig the meta …
 
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