Did you bought the game yourself and reviewed it? or did you get a preview key from the company itself before release date?
If you bought it yourself u are a non paid shill
If you get it form them u are a paid shill
Because guess what happens if you are negative towards there products? they won't be sending you codes any longer and u fall behind your competition.
Don't believe it?
Lol at you trying to tell me how the industry works, only been doing this for 20 years mate. Been dealing out bad reviews plenty of times, never got blacklisted. Heard about Rockstar trying to pull some shit some times, but we don't deal with people who try to put restrictions on us. Not that it's in any way anywhere near common, mind you.
Also, of course we get codes. Your idea that that makes me a shill is so moronic I don't know what to tell you. You think the price for a game is enough to make me adjust scores? What do you think I am, a 12 year old child who has to save up for every game in a Naruto shaped piggy bank?
We don't pay for the games we review. Not a single one, and in the odd case we do, the company pays, not the reviewer. So when every game is free, when are you being a shill? When you give a shitty game 3 or when you give a great game 9? Do you realize this isn't just fun spoiled brats stuff? We have short deadlines, tons of hourd to get through, possibly dull as fuck gameplay, and an hourly pay that is next non existant. But in your eyes we're paid shills cause the game is free.
There are few jobs out there that pay less for the amount of time you put in than game reviewing, so shove it.