Quote Originally Posted by Trip Hawkins
And do not patronize me by telling me the reader is the customer--your real customer is the one that pays you your revenue. And it is game industry advertisers. If you need to be able to be constantly negative you need to accept that you are like a parasite that is killing its host.
Come again? Game publishers are the customer?

When the companies say "Give good reviews or else", that's payola. Trip was being unfair pointing the dagger at GamePro over its employee's mere opinion. Portal Runner may be a good game, but I just think Trip's attitude here stinks to high heaven.