I'm kinda sick of online game journalism tbh Hyperscape getting a 6 on Gamespot because the game just released and doesn't have a full fleshed out story and the guy couldn't learn the map in the 8 hours that he played of it over the last 2 months
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Every day/week it's not about good coverage, it's about "how many clicks can we get with these stories team!" I remember being in rooms pitching stories and just hearing, "Well, that won't get traffic Nick - so no. You can't cover it."
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And if I pushed to cover it? I would be spoken to if the traffic wasn't up to standard.
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But that still doesn't excuse the fact that whole chunks of the game were missing from the review IMO.
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Oh, definitely. Some people are still just bad at their jobs. Always gonna happen there. Just wanted to note that it's really easy to brush that off on the reviewer all the time when a lot of the issue is systemic.
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all of this
Poor guy probably said, "Why don't we cover Hyperscape?"
Editor kicked down, claiming it wouldn't get clicks (since Open Beta was a bigger deal), and gave them an afternoon to play, and a few days to write a review before pushing them onto something else.