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The place to air your views, every issue in THE POINT, send us your points!
Just stick a note in with your disks, or as a plain ASCII file on the
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GetThePoint_Ami@Hotmail.com
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Hi!
Congrats with the new image, a quick topic introduction. In the past
I've often bought games based on magazine reviews, and 99% of the time I
have agreed with the good reviews, went out and bought the game and found it
was bang on. But on more than one occasion I have read a review where a game
scored over 90% and found that it was a bag of crap. Any ideas if these
"back handers" we hear of really go on?
Greg (gregthompson@newcastle.ac.uk)
THE POINT:
Well i would say almost certainly not in the two remaining Amiga magazines
you see in English shops. And it would be stupid of any magazine to accept
money from a software publisher in return for a good review. But it's
not unheard of in past years, but in mags you do see publishers sometimes
complaining that they got a bad review that they feel was "unfair", and
even when the fames Digita Wordworth 3 reviews were happening and there
were 5 page adverts in all the magazines on the covers etc. They still got
crap reviews on the first bugged version.
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