[Kingfish]

Quote: Originally Posted by threeandhalfstars

If just one of the big game review sites writes an article about the issues of this game and EA Sports' approach the franchise in general, that will put the consumer on notice and will affect sales for NCAA 13. Lowering the average review on Amazon from where it is currently (3 and 1/2 stars) to 2 1/2 or 2 stars will affect the sales of the game in its last hurray, the Thanksgiving to Holiday season.

I am not dog piling the rabbit here, just offering another view. The big review sites are not going to 'tank' a review of EA cause that will do two things, a) stir up the hate of the masses that call themselves EA fanboys and b) keep them from getting access to any previews and special offers.

I knew a guy that put a site together back in the day, kinda like tomshardware.com He intended to make it honest and a consumers watchdog type site. He wrote a few positive reviews and had a couple of good articles but when he wrote his first less than stellar review of an AMD chipset or a Radeon vid-card...they shut him down one and all.

Now that was one "little guy" vs. "the man" but you don't get to be a reviewer at Gamespot or IGN and not realize who is paying for the advertising...at those sites, a review that slammed ANYTHING EA wouldn't get past the editors.

Just my opinion...