It doesn't come as a shock to anyone: everyone is aware that at least a 15-30% of all reviews on the Internet should be taken with a grain of salt, so to speak. The most common way to do so when it comes to review websites and social networks have always been. Note the sharp disparity between 'Critic' and 'User' scores for the product.ĮA is a big Commercial Entity and its CEO knows the company needs to maintain good sales of its products. Ports of the game for PC, XBox 360 and other platforms do not fare much better and don't differ that much so I'll just focus of the platform with the most reviews and critic scores - PS4. Here's the FIFA 19 for PS4 page at Metacritic in its current state (Oct, 5-th): I'm here to talk about how the game scored at one of the better known review sites out there - Metacritic. If you're interested, please refer to the following videos by YongYea: one, two, three.
On September, 25-th EA Games released a new title in their well-known sports games series named 'FIFA 19'. This post is exclusively about dirty PR practices employed by commercial companies and PR agencies they work with. Ever.ĭisclaimer: I don't play sports games, especially soccer games. This is a very quick post regarding modern PR practices and how every single medium to large-scale video game and entertainment media website cannot be trusted never-ever-never.
