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[Skill Up] I do not recommend: 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' (Review) (www.youtube.com)
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[–] Koen967@feddit.nl 34 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

As just someone from the outside looking in, this game is so confusing. On one hand you have journalist sites praising this game and throwing 10/10 around like crazy and on the other you have a review like this that is critical of the game and points out (for me) very blatant faults. Do the points presented by SkillUp not matter to the average game journalist? Or is that something they actually seek in an immersive RPG experience? I'm just so lost on how it can actually be given a 10/10 after seeing this review.

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently, EA/Bioware will withhold early access review codes if you are critical of the game. So they are incentivized to write glowing reviews even if the game doesn't deserve it.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Got a source on that?

[–] shani66@ani.social 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Um... Literally everyone in the industry? It's not a secret that access journalism runs rampant. if you need an individual just to look through Jim Sterling's videos on the subject, she often talked about her time before going independent.

[–] 108@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Fextra life just put a video out about it too https://youtu.be/LDRVdfzHXDI?si=DVHH-sqnGE52n_Rs

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