Koch Media (a huge European publishing arm who works with Square Enix, Atlus, Bethesda, and more) has blacklisted a Spanish medium because they gave FFXV a score lower than the Metacritic average.
>Our score was 0.9 lower than the average Metacritic score, which goes against their best interests. Therefore, we have been blacklisted, and won't be able to publish reviews for their games in the future.
this also explain why the top list of those reviews have so many Spanish literallywho, too.
Jacob Williams
SHUT IT DOWN
Benjamin Campbell
>and won't be able to publish reviews for their games in the future.
That's a lie though. They simply won't review early copies sent by Square Enix.
Nothing is stopping them from buying a copy on release day and reviewing it. Not that they'll finish the review on time for the audience since it's an RPG
Juan Cox
>and won't be able to publish reviews for their games in the future.
What's stopping them?
I mean, they might not receive review copies, but they can still write a review in defiance.
Charles Wilson
LGTS >Spain
this
Kevin Ross
>Nothing is stopping them from buying a copy on release day and reviewing it. for what purpose?
Ethan Brown
>Koch Media
Brody Roberts
Hole frijoles
Charles Moore
It's the same as with news. If your review is out after the game releases no one cares anymore. The first one to report on it, gets the viewers and the clicks to cash in on that sweet ad-money.
Ian Richardson
>they might not receive review copies, but they can still write a review in defiance. O yeah, getting sued for slander is totally worth it.
Easton Jones
>Nothing is stopping them from buying a copy on release day and reviewing it.
>they might not receive review copies, but they can still write a review in defiance.
B-but muh free games.. I mean muh free copies as a member of the prestigious vidya journalism
Bentley Foster
...
Christopher Gutierrez
Stop being racista anónimo
Ryan King
Even liberals hate Koch
Leo Clark
>slander
It's a review. Even if it's after the fact, they can write what they want.
Michael Ortiz
I was banned from 3djuegos, another spanish forum about vidya, because I asked if they were getting paid for giving FFXV an 8,5. Really makes you think.
Evan Nguyen
>Days since jewish Squeenix tricks >0 just fucking buy it, goy
Ethan Cruz
who gives a shit
Oliver Carter
Meristation o muerte
Liam Parker
The fact that Square buys ad space whenever a new game comes out doesn't help.
As long as they are telling the truth about the games it won't be slander.
Jacob Torres
>and won't be able to publish reviews for their games in the future.
Of course they're able to publish reviews of their games.
Who the fuck would stop them?
Joshua Foster
>being registered on 3djuegos in the first place
you deserved it desu
Dominic Hernandez
>and won't be able to publish reviews for their games in the future.
Wait what? Yes they will, just not as fast as others because they wont have the game. No fucking way can SE ban you from reviewing something
Right?
Caleb Green
>Get black listed >all it means is you dont get a review copy >Buy it anyways and review it.
It doesn't mean shit.
Hunter Jackson
>It doesn't mean shit. It means you lose clicks because no one cares about review when the game is out already.
Jordan Carter
They can't do it legally, but they don't need to win a legal battle to financially ruin them with it. Sony've done that strategy in the past tons before.
Gabriel Ramirez
I'm registered in every vidya site that does giveaways from time to time. But I just had to throw shit at the writers for publishing this and feeling proud.
Juan Young
GO BACK
David Smith
Some useless wastes of space try to paint it as if reviews don't matter if they aren't out before a game launches to the public .
Mason Lopez
>Europe >not getting sued into oblivion for telling the "truth"
Isaac Smith
h-hiroshima?
Colton Rivera
That's terrible. Also, nice thumbnail Hiroshima.
Gavin Diaz
How is that an actual problem though?
I mean, to the consumer?
Because I sure don't give a shit about the pretend problems of game journos.
Jeremiah Green
IGN and gamespot gave it shitty scores and no one blacklists them
Luke Diaz
Any interest in me translating the whole of it?
I'll do it for 3 (you)s
Owen Lee
Spain != Mexico you illiterate dumbfucks
Ayden Cruz
Jolines Manolo
Robert Wilson
I wonder how you get "green listed" (?) in the first place.
Does your site need a specific amount of traffic before review copies are dispensed your way?
Lincoln Allen
Nobody really cares that much. The gist of it is already in the OP.
Christopher Johnson
Americans are dumb, more at 11
Mason Hernandez
>I mean, to the consumer? It's not a problem for the consumer, it's a problem for a business that rely on clicks. And it shows that reviews are bullied into giving good reviews as oppose to honest reviews.
All in all though, I don't care because I gather opinions for Sup Forums. Just gotta filter the shitposts.
Adam Williams
>Innovation is rated
What a fucking joke
William Hall
>S;0 stilld did't arrived to me
Aaron Rodriguez
>Spain - Europe >Mexico - North America I don't even understand how you function. go read a big book on history then you might learn how Mexico came to be.
Easton Diaz
Ign gave 82 and gamespot 80
Connor Ortiz
>no one
Speak for yourself.
Buying on launch day is the worst thing that ever became a trend in video games.
Ethan Bennett
Its a joke Pedro
Eli Williams
What are you retards talking about?
They were prohibited from publishing reviews as soon as the embargo lifts, there's nothing about being being banned from reviewing all games or anything.
>Koch Media nos ha vetado hoy la posibilidad de lanzar las reviews de sus futuros juegos en fecha de embargo por no estar de acuerdo con la puntuación que hemos otorgado a Final Fantasy XV.
Shall I read the review as well and see why? Cause obviously you lot are incapable of doing it.
Brody Clark
Couldn't make past the first paragraph. >os >vuestro >teneis
Jesus Christ. Learn to use your fucking language, you idiotic europoors.
Nolan Lopez
Alright alright.
So it's not actually an issue to anyone that isn't a tool.
Juan Hughes
>spain >spainerd >spainish >spinich >mexican Yep. Samething bro. Get fucked euro wetback.
>all these gallegos getting triggered by a chilean
Paellaniggers are the worst.
Tyler Carter
>ciudad gotica
Elijah Morales
LUZ, FUEGO, DESTRUCCIÓN
Brody Perez
Go back to youtube comments
Bentley Bennett
this is horrible, mexican version is goat.
Adrian Fisher
Get out spanishfag. Who cares about it, we are the most irrelevant country in western europe, say thanks that Metacritic accepts even the reviews of our shitty blogs.
Go back to Meristation and never come back.
Grayson Bailey
>Southern europeans >South Americans
Learn a proper Northern language you tequila guzzling paellaniggers
I work in a Game Publishing department so I can roughly tell you how it works for new medias.
First of all we split medias and "Community Sites" into two groups. One is managed by PR, one is managed by "Community". Usually anything small or less formal (i.e. streamers/influencers) goes to the Community Team. The rest goes to PR.
Then depending on several factors (traffic, impressions, country etc.), outlets are tier'd. T1 are our big guys like IGN, Eurogamer (UK), Jeuxvideo.com/Webedia (France), Buffed (Germany), etc. (We deal with EMEA countries). Then comes T2 and T3.
When it comes to review copies (I work mostly with MMOs, so it's mainly codes anyway), we provide them to all Press Sites regardless of the tier. However we also organize Press Events/Tour and slots are limited so these are usually for T1 (and we pick on the T2 list if some T1 outlets cannot attend). We fly over journalists to our Offices either in the US or Asia, so we can't just invite small bloggers and what not.
For certain games when the coverage is really dire and that almost no T1 people are interested about our products we just pick lower down the list, and that's how we sometime end up having literally who's getting interview slots at major Tradeshows like gamescom.
How to be on that list? Well reach out to anyone in the company which then forward your details to PR department and they make the call or not if they should establish a relationship with you.
Benjamin Lopez
t. sudaca
Jonathan White
What have swedecucks done in their lifetime Bjorn?
Daniel Allen
Most of south america speak Portuguese though
David Ward
>Homer
Jackson Gonzalez
Wow this review is actually fucking terrible. It's like a long, wordy and very vague essay about the game.
The first third is just wanking/reminiscing about the final fantasy "legacy" and its creators. The second bit is extremely brief and confused descriptions of the protagonists in comparison to other Final Fantasy games and then the last two bits are like really weird and light descriptions of the combat system and graphics.
More like a review it reads like a really big fan trying to clumsily describe a game. It's bizarre, reminds me of indie videogame magazines from the 90s.
Also >p-please don't use adblock! >advertisement for g2a embedded into the site itself >waaaah we got vetoed!
Yeah fuck them. I don't even play final fantasy games and even I think the site is shit.
Cooper Campbell
Well they're economy didn't fucking fall apart like Portugal's and Spains did
Carson King
Yeah that's his name
Blake Ramirez
>Jomer
Noah Bell
The game is shit tho.
Justin Harris
Koch has consistently supported Republican candidates forever
Blake Turner
>blacklisted >unable to publish reviews Wait, how exactly does blacklisting prevent them from publishing a review?
Juan Lewis
tu eres el mexico de europa maricon
Julian Allen
>won't be able to publish reviews
That's not how it works. The only thing the publisher could do is not giving them review copies.
Joseph Russell
Dios mio!
Connor Anderson
No, ignorant, I'm from Madrid.
Please consider stop defending a second world country which is only lagging the rest of Europe and is one of the many reasons the brexit won.
Your patriotism is a shame considering that internationaly we are only useful to throw parties on the beach so the guiris from real developed countries can get wasted.
Daniel Barnes
it effectively ruins any chance to get review copies, so the review can't come out on release day, which means it's essentially worthless
Elijah Williams
>Area jugones
Con ese nombre mejor desaparecieran.
No free copies for them, not a bad thing
Dylan Barnes
>t. qlao aweonao po wn
Gavin Hill
>jomer
Zachary Foster
Sorry, we dont speak regetton in here.
Grayson Wright
A la chingada pinches gachupines
Aaron Brooks
>Therefore, we have been blacklisted, and won't be able to publish reviews for their games in the future. How can they stop them from publishing reviews?
