Gaming publications and biasness

This thread is to address the obvious bias found in publications.

The facts and logic are simple. Gaming publications are a form of media that thrive on their public. This is because it is inheriently the public that makes them money. The more people that frequent the site, the more they make.

That said, there will always be websites that will endulge in biased reviews in order to pull certain demographics in. Whether this means feeding the lems, feeding the cows, feeding the hermits, feeding the sheep... and yes, feeding the mantacore.

This is of course only the basics. Marketing skewing content can be much more complicated then just this.

Well usually reviews are biased, but not always. Say a reviewer is a fan of the series or the exculsive platform its on. There are variables that may influence the review but nothing too much.

Oh and is biasness even a word?

i really don't have a gripe with any worldwide media, gamespot, IGN, eurogamer, Edge, the're all unbiased as far as i'm concerned, can't say the same about the Portuguese media though (i'm portuguese BTW) other then two websites (PTgamers and mygames) everything else is so sony bias it's not even funnyst1ka

Im portuguese too and i dont know what the hell youre talking about.

On the theme of course there is always a little "biasness" the reviews arent done by automatons, they are all gamers and all have their particular tastes(some reviewers took points off MGS4 because of the long cutscenes , others praised the long cutscenes).

[QUOTE="st1ka"]i really don't have a gripe with any worldwide media, gamespot, IGN, eurogamer, Edge, the're all unbiased as far as i'm concerned, can't say the same about the Portuguese media though (i'm portuguese BTW) other then two websites (PTgamers and mygames) everything else is so sony bias it's not even funnyRen_eko

Im portuguese too and i dont know what the hell youre talking about.

On the theme of course there is always a little "biasness" the reviews arent done by automatons, they are all gamers and all have their particular tastes(some reviewers took points off MGS4 because of the long cutscenes , others praised the long cutscenes).

are you kidding me? megascore? bgamer? or eurogamer.pt? how can you say these media are anything other then bias?

hell nintendo actually boicoted megascore for crying out loud

[QUOTE="Ren_eko"]

[QUOTE="st1ka"]i really don't have a gripe with any worldwide media, gamespot, IGN, eurogamer, Edge, the're all unbiased as far as i'm concerned, can't say the same about the Portuguese media though (i'm portuguese BTW) other then two websites (PTgamers and mygames) everything else is so sony bias it's not even funnyst1ka

Im portuguese too and i dont know what the hell youre talking about.

On the theme of course there is always a little "biasness" the reviews arent done by automatons, they are all gamers and all have their particular tastes(some reviewers took points off MGS4 because of the long cutscenes , others praised the long cutscenes).

are you kidding me? megascore? bgamer? or eurogamer.pt? how can you say these media are anything other then bias?

hell nintendo actually boicoted megascore for crying out loud

I dont want to pull the thread into a discussion 99.9999999999999999999% of the users are not familiar with but ok.

The last magazine i bought was Hype i stoped buying other mags(a long time ago) because they are indeed very bias but i dont find EG.pt bias , just because you dont agree with a score doesnt make them bias , they do great on the mark reviews IMO.