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I wouldnt call this unconstructive, its why I got banned there relevent questions, or they want to silence me for 3 days:

"You should have been up to date on the information from SE like the entire playerbase and media and known it was coming out, you should have thought your integrity could be brought into question. Also when was the game under review? and how much did the revewer play for, because it doesnt seem like much. Also if there isnt a re-review after 1.18 or 1.19 at the latest, no matter what is said about it I will be 100% that your site only gives good reviews to games that give you more money."

I'm thinking it's the last line that landed you the ban. They really, really hate it when people accuse them of favoring the highest-paying advertisers and shunning the lowest or non-paying ones. It's one of those things that anyone can see a pattern of by simply hanging around the site long enough to see the patterns developing. Yet, there's always the plausible deniability of them saying "Nuh uh. There is no bias here. Now, say that again and we'll ban you".

They could have just removed that offending line, though, and left the rest of it alone. They do have "mod edits" there.

Your questions were perfectly appropriate and valid. Of course, they also could have opened an ugly can of worms for the site, at which time someone would have stepped in and done the "the opinions of the reviewers do not reflect that of mmorpg.com" routine. They've done that before, too.

Basically, when MMORPG can not, or does not want to defend or back up the article of one of its contributors, they immediately distance themself from it. Yet, in other cases, you'll see them full-on endorsing them, even defending them. Their stance is entirely determined on a case-by-case basis, depending on how a given situation reflects on them.

That site has damage control and dodging accountability down to a science.