On 18 October, ‘news’ spread that EA was allegedly trying to manipulate Battlefield 3 review scores by sending out questionnaires with some leading questions to potential reviewers.
BluesNews is now reporting that the two websites supposedly solicited by EA – Gamereactor.no and Gamer.no – are denying that EA did any such thing.
Gamereactor wrote to BluesNews saying: “We would like to have our name removed from the article, we have received a preview code and have not had any problems with EA. We have had nothing to do with the ‘shenanigans’. It seems to be a matter between EA Norway and a major newspaper, why dedicated gaming media are mentioned also must be a misunderstanding.”
Gamer.no followed shortly, saying: “This is not true. EA have never refused to give Gamer.no access to a early review copy, and we did not need to answer any leading questions from EA to obtain it either. In fact our copy is shipped already, and should be in our hands tomorrow. There have never been any disagreements between EA and Gamer.no on this case.”
Strange indeed, and it makes one wonder why the Norwegian site that initially reported did so with confirmation.
At least it turns out that EA isn’t as bad as we all thought – unless there is some grander unfathomable conspiracy afoot.
Via: The Escapist
Norwegian gaming websites call shenanigans on EA review solicitation reports << Comments and views
Loading ...
