By having those privileged access doesn’t it have an implication regarding the tone of the review you’re making? If you shat on the game that the publisher gave you access to there might be a possibility that they won’t invite you to future events?
This had happened on PC component review space. I remembered that LTT used to get review units for Apple products, but because of their reviews mostly just shat on Apple products, Apple basically stopped inviting them to events and sending review units.