

The publishers made them. If you don’t have an early review ready the second a game releases, nobody cares about your review. Publishers knew that and would blacklist anyone that gave them bad reviews. No early copies means no day one reviews.
So all that are left are places like IGN that will never give a score lower than 6/10 for the largest dog shit games in existence.
Because publishers get all the money and are squeezing studios dry to chase higher returns, but don’t let that stop your circlejerk.