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Originally Posted by cbman
Adventure Gamers never reviews games from that perspective and that is why I value their reviews more than those from other AG specific sites, which very often come across as puff pieces. If you're charging money for your game then it is a commerical release and should be judged as such. Even the price of the game (ie it may be cheap) can't really be factored into a review because that is an ephermal factor and the reviews will stay for years.
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Of course one can defend that every (commercial) game should be judged in the same way. But "being a commercial game" isn’t a good measure per se, though it can be one of more measures. In professional reviews of - for instance - cars one will judge a car that cost $10000 differently from a car that cost $100000, and different standards will be used. And there are more parameters that are of interest in this example (one developer vs 60 developers; first vs 10th game, available funds, software etc.). I think at least some attention should be paid to the circumstances.
