On the bright side, this can only encourage people to stop reviewing games as a means of earning their livelihood, which is a natural source of score bias.

The knowledge that a single review is dishonest, for whatever reason, is enough to harm the integrity of all games journalism - It's only ever counterproductive to allow a bias, as in the fullness of time your readership will drop and you'll lose that livelihood due to being considered untrustworthy anyway.

*retreats ever further into the Promised Land of indie game development*