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Originally Posted by Gadwen
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Because the press that was invited to the private showing needs to show their gratitude and kiss SOE ass so they get invitations in the future.
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This is actually pretty true. Games journalists are often fans as well, and get caught up in the hype and spin - and the coercion of exclusives in return for positive press. I don't trust any games sites, especially the bigger ones. Their bread and butter is dependent upon maintaining good relationships with the big companies. It's all pretty nepotistic.
However, it's going to be interesting to see what they saw that has them so pumped. I have a feeling they've been blown away by some sort of demo and/or preview footage that promises it's ingame but is actually specially scripted and modified for a focused press showing. Games companies do this all the time unfortunately. There have even been instances of builds being driven by programmers manually firing off scripts in response to the player's actions in the demo (remember the awesome boss fight in the D3 demo that never materialized in the final game?) We'll see though.