I agree with you about IGN's quality, but I think it's not necessarily your opinion that's generating the downvotes, but the tone.
IGN being disconnected from the tastes and preferences of gamers? Almost inarguable. Letting political opinions of the journalists have huge sway over game reviews and scores? I'd say that is inarguable.
But you'll get downvoted when you type a post on HN that seems like you're getting excited while typing.
I agree with your take but also let's not pretend that SW Outlaws and Concord are worth even 4/10. Worst games I've seen in a while. Concord seems to have a good-ish engine and it would be a shame if that's trashed but outside of that, yikes.
Ah, I am not saying it was you, I really just wanted to highlight how out of touch the gaming "journalists" can be. But as you said, it's all about money.
