A post on Reddit centers on a since-deleted user review for
Dragon Age II on
Metacritic which seems to have been written by a BioWare engineer under the name
Avanost, giving the game a glowing review without disclosing his conflict of interest. This has set off a firestorm of irate commentary, and also seems to have generated backlash, as a number of recent user reviews give the game a score of zero. There are links to cached pages that don't seem to reflect what's in the story, but nin found a
cached copy of the Metacritic page that does show a portion of Avanost's 10/10 review. A Reddit comment also notes there is also
a 10/10 review by a one-review user named LupoTheeButcher, which is also the nickname of a
moderator on the
BioWare Social Network. There's also a thread about this on the
BioWare Social Network.
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So yeah, thanks PC Fucking Gamer. Once again, EA buys one of your "ethical" reviews.
Like I pointed out when that first went up - they were the first review of Doom 3 and they gave it a 94 or 96 or 98 or something - a solid 25 points higher than it deserved. |
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