>>131786141The thing is, now that IGN is (unfortunately) the premier gaming website on the net (not in terms of quality, but rather audience), they could potentially decide to suddenly become REAL journalists, giving honest reviews, and not give a fuck what Publishers think of them because guess what: If a big publisher does decide to stop stending them early review copies, IGN could just run a story completely bagging that publisher, blowing the lid off their devious practices and exposing them for the corporate jerks they are. Instead of reviewing the bad game honestly, they'd write an article saying "Big Publisher has refused to send us a review copy, because they're scared we'll give it a bad review like we did with their last Shit Game. They obviously aren't very confident with their product." That's just as bad.
So IGN have the power, but will they ever use it? Fuck no. Because they are all guttertrash scum journalists who wouldn't know quality reporting if it bit them. They'll be perfectly happy to perpetuate the joke journalism that currently dominates the gaming industry for as long as the money keeps flowing in. It's sickening. In any REAL news organisation, these people would have all been fired for incompetence years ago.
