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[Jul 18, 2012, 10:01 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

IGN - Is Metacritic Ruining The Games Industry?
It also leads to some very dodgy behaviour from the publisher side of things. I’ve been told stories of PR executives working on particular games being directed to specifically target these smaller sites in the hope of raising that average score and covering up a less enthusiastic reception from the big outlets. For most people working in games marketing, Metacritic will come up during their annual review process, and a less-than-ideal average score for a game will sometimes result in a severe bollocking.

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Re: Op Ed

Jul 18, 2012, 19:55

PropheT

Darks wrote on Jul 18, 2012, 15:42: Really Creston, so you’re telling me that when a user goes in there and totally bombs a score to Zero, that’s a justified score because the user is being a jerk and purposely bombing the score because they didn’t like the game? Like Verno said, games a subjective to the persons interest and like. When someone purposely goes in and gives a game a zero that cannot be taken seriously by anyone. Nobody cares about the user scores. There's no telling if those people even played the game they're reviewing. The article and most people are talking about the aggregate on the professional reviews. NiteX wrote on Jul 18, 2012, 18:11: You're not a cool kid unless you hate IGN! Or SWTOR for that matter! Could be that there's a good reason for that.

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Comment [quote="PropheT"Jul 18, 2012, 19:55][quote="Darks"Jul 18, 2012, 15:42]Really Creston, so you’re telling me that when a user goes in there and totally bombs a score to Zero, that’s a justified score because the user is being a jerk and purposely bombing the score because they didn’t like the game? Like Verno said, games a subjective to the persons interest and like. When someone purposely goes in and gives a game a zero that cannot be taken seriously by anyone. [/quote] Nobody cares about the user scores. There's no telling if those people even played the game they're reviewing. The article and most people are talking about the aggregate on the professional reviews. [quote="NiteX"Jul 18, 2012, 18:11]You're not a cool kid unless you hate IGN! Or SWTOR for that matter! [/quote] Could be that there's a good reason for that. [/quote]

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