Op Ed

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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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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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	1.	Jul 18, 10:15	Re: Op Ed	ASeven
	2.	Jul 18, 10:19	Re: Op Ed	InBlack
	3.	Jul 18, 10:26	Re: Op Ed	nin
	4.	Jul 18, 10:45	Re: Op Ed	Acleacius
	5.	Jul 18, 10:49	Re: Op Ed	nin
	7.	Jul 18, 11:27	Re: Op Ed	MisterBenn
	8.	Jul 18, 11:39	Re: Op Ed	Prez
	16.	Jul 18, 13:19	Re: Op Ed	theglaze
	6.	Jul 18, 11:27	Re: Op Ed	Silicon Avatar
	21.	Jul 18, 14:59	Re: Op Ed	StingingVelvet
	9.	Jul 18, 12:18	Re: Op Ed	theyarecomingforyou
	13.	Jul 18, 12:39	Re: Op Ed	Prez
	23.	Jul 18, 15:05	Re: Op Ed	theyarecomingforyou
	24.	Jul 18, 15:36	Re: Op Ed	Darks
	29.	Jul 18, 16:15	Re: Op Ed	Axis
	32.	Jul 18, 20:03	Re: Op Ed	SimplyMonk
	33.	Jul 18, 20:10	Re: Op Ed	Dmitri_M
	35.	Jul 18, 20:31	Re: Op Ed	Mashiki Amiketo
	36.	Jul 18, 22:55	Re: Op Ed	Dmitri_M
	37.	Jul 19, 04:18	Re: Op Ed	InBlack
	38.	Jul 19, 07:44	Re: Op Ed	Beamer
	39.	Jul 19, 09:29	Re: Op Ed	InBlack
	40.	Jul 19, 09:56	Re: Op Ed	Beamer
	41.	Jul 19, 10:00	Re: Op Ed	InBlack
	10.	Jul 18, 12:18	Re: Op Ed	Creston
	12.	Jul 18, 12:33	Re: Op Ed	shinchan0s
	14.	Jul 18, 12:42	Re: Op Ed	PropheT
	15.	Jul 18, 12:51	Re: Op Ed	Fantaz
	26.	Jul 18, 15:42	Re: Op Ed	Darks
>>	31.	Jul 18, 19:55	Re: Op Ed	PropheT
	11.	Jul 18, 12:24	Re: Op Ed	Verno
	17.	Jul 18, 13:24	Re: Op Ed	Tumbler
	18.	Jul 18, 13:30	Re: Op Ed	eunichron
	19.	Jul 18, 13:48	Re: Op Ed	Prez
	20.	Jul 18, 13:55	Re: Op Ed	eunichron
	22.	Jul 18, 15:00	Re: Op Ed	Prez
	25.	Jul 18, 15:41	Re: Op Ed	avianflu
	27.	Jul 18, 15:42	Re: Op Ed	briktal
	28.	Jul 18, 16:11	Re: Op Ed	eunichron
	30.	Jul 18, 18:11	Re: Op Ed	NiteX
	34.	Jul 18, 20:11	Re: Op Ed	SimplyMonk