Pretty valid and believable point, lol.

 

That's kinda old news. I think that most of the distributers have "bribes for the press" category in their "game promotion" costs analyzis.

 

point. and politics.

 

It's a no brainer but I wanted a reason to share the comic =P

I used to be dumb enough when I was younger though, to buy the games CGW ranked highest, and I'd often wonder why they didn't work, or didn't have the stuff listed, etc. Black and White 2 is a great example of a game that must of taken an assload of bribery, most of it's advertised features aren't in the game, heh

 

True, but you can't trust demo's either nowadays. Demos now are optimized to hell and back and they only give you stuff that is top notch to trick you into thinking everything is A-OK. BF2 for example I had zero issues with the demo and it ran full out perfectly at 40-50 fps.

Install the full version and it's a totally different ballgame. Where I used to run all High I could barely do medium. Textures looked massivley different and very clunky, the sound wasn't optimized on every map, all of the maps save the one they used for the demo had massive framerate issues that they fixed by making the maps so foggy it about ruined long distance shooting, etc.