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.
I hope you all don't get baited (by it being spain) and forgo the fact that this is blatant corruption.
Let your racist sentiments go and look at the big picture. This is BLATANT Corruption.
Jace Young
I don't even know what that is supposed to mean user
Jayden Taylor
bait some fucktard into derailing the thread and then whine like a faggot when it derails.
Grayson Davis
Nigger fuck off with this Spanish nonsense. We got our own English-based corruptions to deal with.
Elijah Hernandez
We already know how fucked up it is dickpoop. That's why we are reviewing independently.
Cooper Morris
I honestly won't be surprised if this becomes the new practice eventually, Bethesda flat out said they don't care about sending review copies out anymore.
Brandon Gonzalez
You're a faggot. Spaniards are white.
Kayden Jenkins
To add to that. It's the HISpanics and latinos that are a mixed raced mess. Spaniards are European white.
Oliver Flores
One question, did they dock points for soggy knees?
Elijah Campbell
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Lucas Cooper
whiter than the US.
Joshua Nguyen
(((Koch)))
Ryan Jenkins
What? How is that corruption? Am I misunderstanding the English language?
I agree that this is a bad practice, but isn't it basically their right to invite/send copies to whom they want?
John Hill
Not really, because no agreement existed between them to fix the rating. But it is shitty if it's true, because it implies that other reviewers are involved in such agreements.
I don't think that's how it works. They just have to wait like for the game like the rest of the goyim.
Hunter Kelly
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James Foster
US is 98% white outside of large cities and the southern parts of the southern states. Spain is only like 10% white.
Daily reminder the US was never invaded and occupied by arabs. The spics can barely go anywhere but the southern states.
Hudson Martin
Really mate? So punishing people who reviewed your game because they didn't give as high a score as you wanted is ok with you?
Jackson Flores
US is around 60% white and less than 50% white if you only look at under 10.
Chase Lopez
It really isn't about language. I don't think squeenix cared about the country of origin for the publication that didn't lick their asses.
Gabriel Morales
This is why nobody takes /pol seriously.
OT: The Streisand effect will take care of this OP. They'll back of soon.
Austin Wood
Wait, you're saying Square Enix is a company full to the brim with conniving Japanese jews that don't give a shit about anything other than shekels? Surely the (((Koch))) brothers wouldn't have any nefarious, anti consumer business plans up the sleeves of their tzitzits.
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Jonathan Walker
It's natural for Square at this point, they've burned so much money through XV's development that they're probably going to take it out on anyone.
Elijah Ortiz
It is sad that even people here get caught up in identity politics bullshit.
While that's true, it is a death knell for a site not to get early review copies to review, and companies know that. So giving review copies specifically to sites to ensure favorable reviews, and deny them to companies for simply doing their review is corruption. Now, if they were shit like Polygon or something, docking points for an agenda, I can understand not giving them review copies, but if it's purely for the metacritic, it's scumbag.
Lucas Turner
And half the anons on this board are going to be good goys and buy it anyway
Matthew Torres
Well, what are the benefits of giving out review copies if you aren't an indie developer? Maybe in the old days when we didn't have internet but now that we do, giving out review copies to certain sites just doesn't seem like a necessity. Besides, most that do get review copies just rust through the game to pump out a review for those quick ad bucks, rather than giving a good review.
I don't think early review copies are worth much in this day an age. It would be best if everyone got the game at the same time as release and play at the same time as everyone else. If people would have the patience to wait if they aren't sure of a game, they can wait for multiple reviews to come out to make an educated purchase. Sadly, we live in a consumer lemmings world, where one popular person does it, everyone follows them without question. Tuber's/ Streamer's pay lip service to bad practices but in the end still support it through their own actions, whether they want to admit or not.
Jordan Sullivan
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Jack Thomas
This is all due to people relying on metacritic. A lot of people don't even look at individual reviews,they're THAT LAZY. They just look at the score, so companies will pull bullshit like this simply to make sure the metacritic score on day one is as high as possible. If a site that doesn't default to giving them favorable reviews can't review a game until it's been out a week, they can't effect the metacritic for that whole week, and by then the game has sold most of the sales it'll ever make. This is the flaw of metacritic, and companies know exactly how to rig that system.
Josiah Rodriguez
I asked how that is corruption. As I understand it corruption is the misuse of entrusted power and normally also a crime.
And I also said it's bad, so where did you read that I'd be okay with it?
Parker Parker
Trying to shame people into not buying something they want isn't going to do anything. What would be a lot more useful would be the people that did buy the game, with proof in hand, contacting Square and saying "stop this bullshit", because consumers WANT honest reviews. And probably a wider look at Koch Media and their business partners and practices. Attacking their good name and dragging the good name (as it were) for the companies they work for into it could do a lot, over time. These are all old GamerGate tactics, and we know they work.
Jason Gray
nigga, I bought Shadow Warrior 2 and even I'm not picking up that Piece of Shit.
Brody Walker
Is anyone surprised? Like, at all? This game has been in development for eighty-five years, part of a major franchise, from a major studio. Of course its going to get high reviews, and anyone who doesn't agree is going to get pushed away. I'd be surprised if the reviews were actually legit.
Hunter Reed
I'm translating this as fast as I can. There's still shit to post. Hold on.
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Joshua Watson
I don't think that means what you think it means. Hint: it has nothing to do with ethnicity.
Dylan Gray
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Angel Long
Thanks for translating. I was in the middle of translating the first paragraph, but I wasn't fluent enough in Spain Spanish.
Christian Carter
Koch sure sounds like a japanese name to me.
Evan Morgan
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Jordan Wilson
Wow how fucking convenient.
Ian Harris
OH CHILD.
Liam Martinez
AWAKEN MY GOOBER GLOPERS
Caleb Carter
That is fucking petty
Ayden Mitchell
OK, here you go. Emphases are his.
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> Everything started with a call from their offices. The first message was clear: you are going to be removed from the list of major outlets that put out reviews on embargo date because you have hurt our interests. Without giving it much thought, I asked for more information about it and the reply was chilling. We have given Final Fantasy XV a score below the current average on Metacritic; we gave it a score that was 0.9 lower than the opinion of the rest of the media outlets and this is the reason for the ban. Apparently, our score of 75 looks pretty bad on the game's page. Faced with this situation, they tried to convince us it wasn't only because of score we have this title and that we were hurting their games in general, something I debunked quickly by telling them the scores we gave some of their last works, such as World of Final Fantasy, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Just Cause 3, or Shadow Warrior 2, which were all above average or on par with the Metacritic average. But the decision was made. According to them, Final Fantasy XV did not deserve this score and they invited us to play or better understand JRPGs. Finally, while we tried to find a solution to the problem, we were notified that, at that moment, there was nothing left to do and that they would revisit our case in the future based on our next reviews. > Personally, I've been hearing for years that the main media outlets in the industry give games very high scores (that includes us, because people are increasingly distrusting the media). The fact of the matter is that today was the day when we were able to understand why. We never believed the rumors or we didn't want to believe them; we always wanted to work for our readers and give them the best version of ourselves, whether or not it matched our work. Thus, we're not being coy here, since this is the first time we have been pressured and punished because we gave a game a certain score; also, we have never received any gratuities for publishing any reviews in support of any media. > However, do not fear because Areajugones will continue to put out reviews that tell you what we really think about each game, without any outside pressure, like it or not, even thought we might end up being despised by some companies in this industry, which I also need to stress, since some of these companies are great and they are awesome to us and our colleagues without asking anything in return. You should draw your own conclusions. Demanding a fairer, more transparent press is in your hands. Finally, we will only invite you to read our review.
Hunter Perry
koch media, not you user.
Wyatt Morris
Many thanks.
Kayden Lee
It's faggots like you that's promoting this game instead of leaving it to rot.
Jackson Walker
I'm fucking sorry for the typos.
> because the of score we gave this title
> even though
Grayson Lee
Sounds more like they're trying too hard. All they had to do is hand out reviews instead of being whiny pussies from getting a slap on the hand.
Camden Ramirez
It's like they wre expecting 10/10's across the board or something for their homo-simulator.
Hunter Lee
I think a straight up homo simulator would have cost them less and made them more money.
Kayden Nguyen
Why should I care about any outlet getting blacklisted? It only means they won't be getting early review copies or backroom deals for scoops.
I want all games media to die in a fire, I wish they would blacklist every fucking publication.
Blake Evans
No bad tactics, only bad targets, right?
Alexander Nelson
Listen here you fucking mongoloid, your shitty prebaked niGGer meme is just a more pretentious way of saying "the end justifies the means" and you know what? sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it does, it all depends on what means to what end, opening your refrigerator door justifies the means of getting off your fat ass and pulling at the door but not the means of blowing up the house with dynamite. Your little turdnugget of wisdom means precisely fuckall because that judgment will never be applied as an absolute.
Kevin Richardson
Take it to the perpetual GG general, this is ostensibly what it's there for.
Nathaniel Diaz
Well, they should had asked sony the score before publishing the review.
Dominic Green
They're too busy blogposting and pretending they're Chinese cartoons.
Adrian Myers
suck my dick faggot
Owen Robinson
Koch Media are filthy kikes
Andrew Roberts
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Lucas Sanders
Why in the fuck would we be racist against Spain? For fakes sake, Spain. You're a white country, not Mexico.
As for FFXV, I knew I was right about it being shit and I can't wait to stomp fanbois fangurls their shit boyband gaymen is garbage.
Dylan Ross
This needs to be pointed out because people seem to not understand the difference.
NATIONS ARE NOT RACES
A black person can be Scottish A white person can be South African A asian can be Brazilian A albino can be Japanese
Education is truly fucked when masses of people can't tell the difference between the two.
Nathan Flores
how much of a delusional faggot can you be? you have to not know the meaning of any of the words you spouted to come to this conclusion. Holla Forums faggots starting to piss me off
Josiah Bennett
It's Zoe Quinn's right to fuck for good press but that doesn't make it okay.
Liam Perry
sometimes i don't know who's jewing who
Julian Cook
No you're the fucking idiot because nationality isn't genetic. The retarded mentality your prescribing to is of the vew that Americans and Brit's are different races.
Brayden Myers
Nationality isn't citizenship either.
No South Africa isn't a nation but sure, Afrikaners are South African. I don't know whether you could call Brazil a nation but I'm gonna lean "no" on this one. Insofar as there are albino Japanese, sure.
The closest thing to nationality is ethnicity plus a specific culture. Afrikaners are ethnically Dutch but no one would claim that Afrikaner = Dutch. You can absolutely be racist against a specific nationality.
Brandon Ross
There's a big difference between nations are races and nations have races.
The issue with nationality in relation to races is that in the scope of things it isn't consistant and the misuse of it confuses the meaning. And no, to be racist you have to think that a race is below others, even the ones that were born and raised in your country.
Ian Allen
Spain =/= Mexico
Jaxon Williams
Brazil has the highest number of japanese citzens after Japan.
Dylan Ward
Absolutely. Somewhere along the line nationality got tied in with citizenship (probably because originally you had to be coethnic with the nation in question to get citizenship), and now people think you can be a black Irishman or a mestizo Congolese. Not in the current year, you just have to think that race exists and matters. I consider myself racist, but I don't believe that other races are inferior so much as believe that they can't into being white. They're excellent at being themselves, and they should go do it in their own countries.
Yeah, but Brazil is kind of like America in fifty years' time. There are a bunch of nations in Brazil, one of which is Japanese.
John Hughes
No. Most japs are in São Paulo I think, which is just another shithole.
Christopher Russell
But they don't have their own culture or whatever? I know that there are Germans in Brazil and they mostly do their own thing, so I would have thought that it would be a similar situation with nips.
I don't know very much about Brazil other than "culturally enriched and mostly shitty" so fill me in.
David Harris
They mostly adhere to the Jap culture of working themselves to death, sure there's a little chinatown there but no proper community of japs/chineses/koreans/whatever. The germans do have one or two cities where old customs and german are both enforced as the default though, in the south, they're not very big though.
Jacob Barnes
Becoming a citizen is to come into the fold of a social contract. If you then defend that constitution you are therefore a nationlist. Race isn't a factor when it comes to nations, the only relation is that with most nations is that there's a common race but that is always in a state of flux. Biology and ideas are two different things. Nations are created from common ideals, race is heredity which comes from your parents.
John Walker
Seriously, how fucking casual are you faggots?
Connor Garcia
Good meme.
John Howard
That only works if EVERYONE loses early review copies, which would be GOOD. But that's not the case: sites are chosen based on their LOYALTY TO THE PUBLISHER to get review copies, and anyone who falls out of line is punished. If you can prove this site gives unfair or overly biased reviews, then ya, we stop caring. But if they really just gave a review that wasn't approved, and got slapped down, that's what GG was built to shine light on.
Isaac Barnes
but i called you a faggot. two times. are you not using that word because it is offensive? it partially is. either you are born with similiar genetics and, heres the important part, the same historical and cultural background or you are not. theres really not much room for speculation. an irish citizenship doesnt make you irish. i dont get how this is so hard to understand. you people lack the understanding of why nations formed in the first place.
Matthew Mitchell
But goy, you just have to believe in the Constitution!
Lincoln Moore
I'm curious about your mental illness that confuses "complaining about x" into "promoting X", and see if there's a charity to donate to so you can get the treatment you desperately need.
Elijah Bell
Fuck off to >>>Holla Forums we don't care about your children games here in Holla Forums.