WIRED Reviews 1,131

Bait and switch on renewal prices. The original offer was $5.00 for first year and auto renew at $29.99 after.

Was billed $54.74 when the renewal came up. Their customer service said the rate was $49.99

Greetings,

Subscribe to this service and wasn’t to impressed on there subscription. Basically what is the function to be a subscriber u don’t even have account to sign in was waste of money for me not worth subscribing.

This website in incredibly one sided and not true journalist sadly. I wouldn’t get my news here. One journalist bashed on hogwarts legacy giving it a 1 star. Just to put that in perspective the worst games u ever played have at least 2 out of 10 stars. This just shows how one sided this company is and that they will tell anything to fit their narrative…so how can u call that news. It’s clickbait. YouTube Breaking points instead, it’s much better journalism.

Hahahahahah. That's how I will start my review simply cause these morons are such a biased joke that even a blind person could see it. Their crescendo was giving Hogwarts legacy a 1/10 simply cause they are butthurt over the fact that it did so well despite their whining and practical demand for people not to buy this game cause of their highly political view on everything and anything that has the misfortune to be reviewed on their site. Look, I'm going to be bluntly honest, most gamers could care less about some political crud that you care so much about as long as the game is good. And Legacy is not just good, but amazing. They have always been a joke with their uneducated and unsuited reviewers, but to me this one that drove one of the final nails into their ignorant coffin.

This website has no journalistic integrity. For example that review of the Harry Potter game is disgusting. Articles like that make it hard to take the magazine seriously at all.

Let me be clear, this is not about the trans debate, it’s about good journalism. The review of Hogwarts Legacy by Jaina Rodriguez Grey was outstandingly biased. Wired has lost all credibility by publishing such a biased and unrealistic review.

One of the worst review sites you will come across. Avoid it all costs. Their reviews are completely pointless and woke agenda driven. I recently read a review for hogwarts legacy which happens to be a brilliant game if you are a Harry Potter fan and having played the game myself and invested a significant amount of time in it, i cam say its a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Is it the best game of all time, maybe not but is it a very satisfying experience, yes. But wired basis its review on pointless opinions that have no grounds in reality. What a pity to see such a good publication go downhill because they sold their dignity for some woke likes. Shame.

Not impartial. Really enjoying a game that they rated 1/10.

Do the sensible thing: delete the review, publish an article explaining why you won't review this game and why- and the damage supporting it causes. But. Not. As. A. Review.

Why?

I've heard that the author of the review isn't even trans, or even enby, but instead claims to be an ally. Well, as I've said before about so-called-allies who showcase their ally status on twitter by tweeting violently misogynistic crap that transphobes inevitability assume is the fault of the trans community: how irresponsible is it to start fights that you will never have to actually *personally* suffer fighting for yourself, that your rights, your existence, your personal safety hangs on (no, it isn't victim blaming because the people who started the fights and who wrote this article are not victims)!

Being for a progressive cause does not make you infallible. It does not make you free of responsibility to conduct yourself properly. Mostly, it doesn't give you the right to argue the cause's case sans logic, sans honesty, sans credibility.

Allies do damage to every cause they set eyes on when they make it about themselves and speak over the people who's cause they claim to support.

Yours truly, an enby. No, I'm not trans but I'm not cis either. 'phobes certainly don't care about the difference.

Biased publication and unprofessional writers.

I popped into the Hogwarts Legacy Review because I was genuinely curious how someone found so many faults with the game. I quickly learned that this person didn’t even play the game, and decided on their review score long before writing the review. If they had bothered to play the “terrible” game, they’d realize the creators are more sympathetic with their cause than JKR, and actually tried their best to represent their community in the game. But no, that’s asking too much of a so-called reviewer. Wired has lost all integrity and trust in my eyes. I’m filtering it out of all of my search results and I will not read ANY more articles from them as long as that person is employed.

As a member of the trans community, the damage that WIRED has done in handing a game review to someone who has obviously fought for it with no intention of playing the game is beyond anything JK Rowling has said or supported. It was the pathetic, low hanging fruit that Jaina has plucked while still patronising social media platforms of outspoken transphobes that put the spotlight on her utter lack of integrity or credibility. There are no articles about the Saudi Wealth Fund acquiring SNK or a major stake in Nintendo, run by MBS, someone who literally had a journalist murdered. But THIS was the hill that she chose to die on. The easy one that she thought she would get the most attention for with the least amount of effort. Thanks for destroying the credibility of LGBTQIA+ media members and to the EIC who backed her. You thought you were covering your ass by supporting it, instead you punted your credibility too. Last nail in the coffin of this failing publication.

I don't need politics to come into a review, just honesty.

Jaina Grey's review performance was bad enough, but I rather put blame squarely at the feet of the editor that approved it. Jaina's logic eats itself and actually harms the folks that she attempts to uphold. She goes out of her way to say that "All the things you know and love about your favorite games were made by queer people." Well Jaina, I wonder how many queer people worked their asses off to create this amazing game which almost every legitimate review source besides you is hailing as incredible. What about them? Total toxic narcissism at work here powered by agenda-driven woke jet fuel. Fire Jaina and fire the editor. Stop reading Wired.

Wired creates and promotes reviews designed to deceive customers about the quality of products to push sales away from products they have political disagreements with. They've done incredible damage through pushing bigotry and hate toward trans communities - its manipulative editoral decisions have severly damaged the entire organisations credibility, and possibly all review writers. Caution should be used when considering their writing as often they present ideas as facts, but they are actually disguising a hate-filled agenda. Due to the way their intentions are masked, it can be difficult as a reader to tell fact from fiction - a dangerous read that has done much damage to communities.

Useless site, they got a sex toy reviewer to review a childrens game. It's clear the reviewer never played the game .

The HWL game review was completely unprofessional and does more damage to my opinion over the issues the reviewer was purporting.

I would never consciously click on activism of this kind so masking it in a Game review is desperate and untrustworthy. Good luck with your cause but I remain convinced that society is not the problem after seeing that.

Wired … more like unhinged.

They released a review of a kids game, written by someone who reviews sex toys. If any children, that happens to read a review of said game clicks on the writer, they can see a list of articles about dildos and vibrators.
The review itself is beyond atrocious, but doing something like this is just irresponsible. You can literally get from harry potter, to vibrators in one click.

Worst review company in my known history. Some very confused people working here

Destroying a game in a review because you don't like the author of the books the game was based on and that was very likely not even involved in the development of the game. That's just beyond ridiculous and unworthy of a website that claims to do journalism. That someone who generally reviews vibrators and other sextoys (not even joking....) writes this is one thing, that the editor gives his go to publish it, that is something else entirely.