BioWare Employees Write Reviews; Gets Caught

[virtualban]

Companies and people hired/payed/influenced by companies will be doing this all the time. There is no way to stop this by legal means unless feeding even more blood sucking lawyers. On this I would much rather let them do as they wish, and I will choose who to listen to and who not. People will have their reputation, and they can be bought by money/gifts/privileges/early releases/prototype products too, or suspected to be bought, but in the end it will be choosing who to listen to among many different voices. That is just because this opinion market is close to impossible to control and statistics can be spammed very easily, including the thumbs up/down of Toms that probably spammers learned to hit to prevent being thumbed down to oblivion in a mater of minutes by the avid readers.
So, we trust Toms to a degree, and we still point them out when something sounds like a commercial instead of objective or critical article. I guess that's the way to go.

 

[dumbredneck]

unfortunately, obama voting for himself is very different from game developers posting favorable reviews of their own work.

most citizens won't base their vote off of what Obama votes for, but they DO base their purchase decisions off of third party reviewers, who consumers expect to be objective.

It's clearly unethical for game developers to pose as "regular gamers" and leave glowing reviews. Any consumer should be smart enough to discount a review that comes FROM THE CREATOR. It just screams bias.

I can't believe BioWare is trying to defend their actions. un-be-lievable