Op Ed

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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Creston wrote on Jul 18, 2012, 12:18:
The sheer GALL of IGN to question Metacritic is fucking astounding. The existence of metacritic isn't ruining the game industry, IGN, it's fucking shitholes like your own websites that will sell review scores for more advertising dollars.

Creston

That's exactly what I thought.

User reviews, like nin mentioned, are basically useless. The problem is that the "professional" reviews are just user reviews hosted on a site where they'll get read.

For IGN specifically when game companies are buying the adspace that keeps them alive, putting characters into games like Chobot, and so on...

It's like reading movie reviews from Harry Knowles and taking those at face value, except 99% of the gaming press is made up of guys exactly like him instead of him being the exceptional one.
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