@coolboymew @demonofustio Again, I'm not sure I buy that it's as simple as "people being annoying. Yeah, yeah, copypasta, but you can tell the difference between that an people using the same exact adjectives to describe things. Maybe everyone landed on "triumphant return to form for bioware"... but were there seriously no reviews that were like "it's a return to form, if that form was Mass Effect: Andromeda"?

I think it's as simple as:

>Review companies want to make money by getting access to popular or anticipated games early
>Companies that publish games also want to get money off good sales
>Companies that publish games force companies that review games to adhere to certain style guides and have "toxic positive" reviews.

Meanwhile, organic reviews from normal people are not impossible to find, but they don't impact the fabled metacritic score much if at all, and if you say too many negatives things you will be deplatformed. Maybe this isn't the dead internet the schizos wanted, but it's the dead internet we got.