EA responds to claims of pulling negative Anthem review ahead of release Electronic Arts \/ BiowareElectronic Arts are denying any claims of \u201cblacklisting\u201d a reviewer for giving a negative critique of Action RPG \u2018Anthem\u2019 ahead of its release on February 22, 2019. A YouTuber by the name of \u2018GGGmanlives\u2019 claims to have been approached by EA to create a paid review of the title \u2013 and was subsequently \u201cblacklisted\u201d due to his damning thoughts on the game. \u201cThis might be the most disappointing game I\u2019ve played in 2019,\u201d the YouTuber said of Anthem. \u201cAt times, it feels either rushed, poorly thought-out, or just, in some cases, unfinished.\u201d GGGmanlives\u2019 video was later removed from the platform, due to what some fans speculated as EA\u2019s dissatisfaction with the review. However, EA claims that they did not pull the review due to his comments, as told in a statement to Variety on February 22. https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/gaming\/news\/youtuber-says-ea-demanded-takedown-paid-review-1203146117\/According to the company, the takedown was executed for failing to meet disclosure guidelines \u2013 although a comment from GGG underneath his video also mentions that he removed EA\u2019s watermark in post. \u201cIn this case, the conditions for disclosure for this specific video were not met\u2026 so we asked for it to be taken down and corrected,\u201d EA said of the matter. \u201cWe\u2019ve not asked for the content of the video to be changed, or \u2018blacklisted\u2019 the creator.\u201d Anthem has since been met with mixed reviews across multiple outlets, with IGN giving the title a 6.5\/10, while Metacritic offered up a 61% and PC World gave it a 2.5\/5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EA responds to claims of pulling negative Anthem review ahead of release Electronic Arts \/ BiowareElectronic Arts are denying any claims of \u201cblacklisting\u201d a reviewer for giving a negative critique of Action RPG \u2018Anthem\u2019 ahead of its release on February 22, 2019. A YouTuber by the name of \u2018GGGmanlives\u2019 claims to have been approached by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}