I'm howling at this... "Shut it you bloodthirsty illiterates, if you bothered to learn how to read you'd see that there is more to the wisdoms of this corporate exec!"
It's a backpedal 7 hours LATER. It's not context, it's damage control.
At worst it's PR mandated clarification since people are running with headlines and posting out of context readings into a partial conversation.
Dude made an error (for his position) pointing out that doing a task in a game is easy and that someone critiquing the game shouldn't be publishing their ignorance at accomplishing said task. He's not wrong in this critique of the reviewer and everyone has a right to that critique, but a person in his position and the partnership between his company and the game generates really bad optics. It's important to note that he didn't actually identify the reviewer, review or site that published the review as that would have been much worse.
The second tweet was a response to a question about him literally giving a personal review (critique) of the game.
At this point Mike puts his exec hat back on and even if he did offer reviews, he knows that it's extremely unprofessional to give a critique from a upcoming/prerelease product from a partner. He says he doesn't do "reviews" which I'm going to imply he means critiques since he's directly responding to a critique of the game, that asks for his personal critique of the game. Then he suggests "modern reviews" which come off as more modern ways to gather impressions. Specifically stating "watching watching streamers play a game, doing the demo, listening to what your gaming friends think". These three suggestion are all more modern than the more established written a critique of a game. They are also all valid ways to garner an impression of a game.
Then the Internet comes in to obscure the context of a reply.
Now the proletariat internet has created a gotcha moment against their bourgeoisie oppressor. Instead of somewhat sassy reply to finding other ways to gather impressions outside of critiques, we now have a total dismissal of the arcane review process when compared to bought and paid for streamers...
Hours later PR or marketing probably get a hold of Mike and asks him to clarify and clean up his remarks and add in that other advertising arm of the publishers known as "journalistic reviews" as the internet has their pitchforks out and you need to remind reviewers that we're still in bed with them too.
