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Old 09-24-2007, 03:35 PM   #39
MissKat
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Originally Posted by LIP MAN View Post
I highly doubt they have all been paid off. I know for a fact 1up and EGM magazine don't base any of their reviews off revenues. I would think maybe some smaller sites that have this as their bread and butter would do it. But does anyone who is a decent critic really think Halo is that bad?
Actually its been well known that IUP is one of the sites that do get paid off from time to time - just look at their 4/10 review for NHL 2K8 recently. Not that I dont agree that EA 08 is indeed better, but 4/10 for 2K8 is just ridiculous.

What I mean by paid off is, not nessecarily $ to rate the game so positively (because we all know Halo wasnt going to get a bad review anyways), but perhaps MS sending them extra incentives just to praise the game a bit higher than they normally would.
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