Regarding that specific issue concerning about being paid or not, I doubt that most good reviews are paid.
The promoted site itself might not even recognize or know some of the game review sites. Generally speaking, most review sites need to have a good set of reviews shown on their site as they are also marketing their affiliate link. Referrals are required to have a real deposit on that site before the commission will be received by the promoter.
If these review sites lure their visitors to a bad site, then they are just wasting time on managing their review sites. What's the sense?
That's a good point. If a review website is posting paid reviews to promote platforms that aren't good but they are representing them as good platforms, they won't get much benefit from this because they will only get a one-time payment from the platform to post the review but if they promote legit services and platforms, they will keep getting benefits from their referrals that they have got through their affiliate links because whenever one makes a deposit and gambles with it, they will get their commission for it.
However, those who have the aim of posting paid reviews and stuff will not understand this because they only see the money they are getting from the platforms for posting good reviews about them and they don't care about people joining the websites through them.
There are many ways to do this, it is known that when there are casinos that suddenly appear reviews with strange names or that we do not know, that have not even been on bitcointalk, at least I do not continue reading that reviewer anymore, because I know that it is shilling , and it may be that even the casino is good, and has better things than some bitcointalk casinos and that is something that is debatable, but it is something that happens a lot, not only in this forum, in many.
We consider what we want to see in the reviews to be the basics, such as:
1.-How demanding are they with KYC.
2.-VPN acceptance.
3.-Withdrawals without KYC? How much do I ride? o To make a minimum withdrawal, KYC must be considered.
4.-If the casino has no risk of being a scam.
5.- If the casino has immediate withdrawals.
They are very basic cases but we must see, there is no other way, also if the things in the casino have a good reputation, all these things are what are looked for in general.
A good thing for me is that you have to give details about everything, about your games, about everything and everything they have, if they have chat, if the casino support is great, or if they have pure AI agents, all of this One realizes, if they have PSVP games, if the casino has plans to do something more than normal, all these things are what reviewers should focus on, but the ones I have seen always focus on the same thing, they should also Putting the criteria they used to determine which is the best and most reliable casino, all these things influence, it is not just the same as putting all the criteria but saying that the best casino is: XXXX and that's it.