Standards of gamers are pretty high, doesn't seem to matter much if something is paid or free. Than again, I do have seen many shitty companies releasing their games free-to-play or very cheap and lateron you learn to know that they stole assets from commercial games or fired their workers without paying etc, so I quess free has gotten a bad rep. Same goes for early access, they are companies that take advantage of early access and than suddenly release their game while still in alpha-state. In middle of this are some hardworking companies (indie or not) that get penalized by this.
Personally I also think that reviewers should be forced to explain why they upvote or downvote a game, but how do that is more difficult.
Last edited by Reconnoiter; 07/26/16 11:26.