Video game "experts" don't know what they are talking about

I don't trust professional reviewers at all. I feel like most of them are likely paid off to say nice things even about games they are very aware are not great. I would say that IGN is probably the biggest offender of this and their comments section on all of their videos are articles are filled with people slaying them for giving bad information or overselling a game.

They also will not point out deficiencies in games that are extremely evident to anyone that actually buys and plays the games. I found this to be particularly true with basically anything that the really big studios release such as Bioware, Blizzard, and especially Square-Enix.

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I don't know how someone ends up with these jobs as video game reviewers but i would imagine that there are a long line of people waiting to take your place if you don't tow the line and do what you are told so I suppose to some degree I can understand why they would to it but honestly, these people are so detached from real gamers or even casual gamers like myself that they honestly can't be trusted at all.

Sometimes though, they come across with something that is so unbelievably out of touch that you can't help but question if they are even at all familiar with the product they are reviewing / talking about.

The above writeup comes from a rather widespread videogame site called G2a and I don't know how much people pay them any mind, but they really should stop doing so after reading this writeup.

So World of Warcraft, the most successful MMORPG of all time, is now a "hack n slash" title? Do they even know what that means? They are an industry leader and they think WoW is hack n slash?

On the Wiki for WoW, which is around 3 million words long (I totally made that number up, but it is LONG) the word "slash" doesn't appear at any point and "hack" only appears when referring to hacked accounts.

Not only was the author of this G2a article completely unaware of what it was they were writing about, but they didn't even do any rudimentary research. It seems as though they didn't even watch a video or two and why did they use an image for 2004?

This made me laugh when I read it at first but I have been duped by reviewers in the past and I have learned a long time ago that you simply can not trust the big names in the business. You are better off looking at user-reviews but of course the companies that make the games can infiltrate this as well... but i think you have a better chance of getting an honest review or two out of that then you are ever going to get from someone who is in the business of reviewing for money.

Alanah Pearce is an ex-IGN writer and she swears adamantly that IGN is not paid off for their reviews but I really don't believe her even though I do like her channel. She has to look out for her career after all, and bagging on one of the biggest players in the game could have some harsh blowback.

In the first 6 months that any Square-Enix game is out, you will NEVER see a professional negative review even though basically all the games they have released in the past 3 years have been deeply flawed. After the initial sales rush is over however, the truth starts coming out, even from the same people that were singing the game's praises beforehand.

I would say to NEVER trust the review of anyone or any company that is given advanced copies because I believe there is a reason why those people are given those copies: It is because they are definitely going to say nice things even if they are not deserved.

In the meantime, all of your World of Warcraft players out there, I hope you continue to enjoy your "hack 'n slash" fun!