>>3671486That's easy.
Video game review business is a political extortion racket.
The currency is compliance with the editorials' ideologies.
The reward is higher metacritic averages for the publisher.
Progressive journalists demands progressive video games, and reward you with better review scores:
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/04/industry-veteran-states-women-are-made-ugly-to-appease-the-trans-community/108169/