The bad thingh is that games that sell are considered a "standard" in German ganing mags.

Any game thast does not comply to that "standard" is … well, not necessarily "bad", but it just doesn't comply with the standard, if you know what I mean.

Or to put it the other way round : To say that a game does not comply to a "standard" is an *very* subtle way to say it is bad, because it *is* not "part" of the "standard".

I must admit that this sounds quite far-fetched, but I do have kind of a sense to often detect subtle meanings in formulations.