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Re: Game Reviews

Nov 15, 2012, 13:58

DrEvil

Axis wrote on Nov 15, 2012, 12:44: Metacritic is 100% correct, no blame to be had for enforcing their well known policy. Its up to the publishers to do their job. And with the state of many piss-poor idiotic nub reviewers, this is the smart thing to do on MC's part. I'm sorry, but no. It's a common, expected practice to accept retractions for articles. What should have happened is that GameSpot would be excluded from the score entirely for that game. That solves the problem of reviewers being pressured to revise scores and is more fair to the involved third party. As it is, I was already questioning which critics metacritic was choosing to include in scores. Some of the sites they're using have little to no integrity. And As someone else pointed out, Metacritic was already caught applying double standards in this area when they chose to ignore a review from destructoid on a game because destructoid gave it a 10/10. They can't have it both ways. I personally don't own or plan to buy NS2 and have never played it, but after this fiasco, I will no longer rely at all on metacritic score. I've lost all confidence in them.

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