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Does Metacritic affect your purchase of a game ?

Yes 38 34.86%
 
No 30 27.52%
 
Never 11 10.09%
 
Maybe just a little 30 27.52%
 
Total:109
disolitude on 26 March 2014

Bigger question would be is gaming industry bad for the human race?

And the answer is yes...

Anything that contributes to 0 durable/perishable skills and consumes our time is bad for the progress as a species. Especially blogging about video games...



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CleggaZ on 26 March 2014

Yes Metacritic and online game sites( IGNorant,Gamespot etc.) have grown to powerful someone should do something about.



MoHasanie on 26 March 2014

I don't think metacritic is the deciding factor when purchasing games for most gamers.



    

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kirby007 on 26 March 2014

I suspect metacritic doesn't have the effect we all think it has and on the opposide the social media from rival fans



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naruball on 26 March 2014
NintendoPie said:
The solution is simple, don't make bad games. If you don't want your game to be a flop, then actually try with it. If your game flops and is still a critical success then maybe you are catering to the wrong demographic.

A prime example as of recent is Yoshi's New Island. A semi-flop that had bad reviews. If Nintendo really wanted it to do well, they would've actually made it themselves or at least checked to make sure the studio wasn't molding a piece of crap.

I only read the first three sentences and then skimmed the rest, just for reference sake.

The solution is never, ever that simple. DMC is a prime example of that. Great game accoording to game reviewers and quite a few people who actually played it and bad sales to the point that we won't see a sequel (as in DMC 2). 

As for the OP. Unfortunately Metacritic affects more people than some of us care to admit. Quite a few people here actually said that they skip anything below 80. I, too, lose a bit of interest for games below 60. Yes, there have been exceptions, but since there are too many 80+ games that I want to play; why deal with annoying things that mediocre games have? I still play "bad" games, but meta most certainly affect me. I actually wish it didn't even exist. 



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Cleary397 on 26 March 2014

I know a few people who have outright refused to buy games because of metacritic reviews being below 75%, despite the games being extremely good.

For me, its a clear answer.
Metacritic is bad for the gaming industry



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Augen on 26 March 2014
disolitude said:
Bigger question would be is gaming industry bad for the human race?

And the answer is yes...

Anything that contributes to 0 durable/perishable skills and consumes our time is bad for the progress as a species. Especially blogging about video games...

Isn't that a broader criticism of art?

With gaming you can at least actually see applications that improve worker efficiency with the gamification of occupations.  



AZWification on 26 March 2014

In my opinion, Metacritic shouldn't even be taken seriously because they use reviews from very uncredible  credible sites like Quarter to Three!



                
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HumdrumPie on 26 March 2014

Metacritic has no effect on my gaming purchases whatsoever. I tend to see what is being said on forums or check it out myself on YouTube.

The problem with Mettacritic is no one knows how they calculate numbers. It is not a simple average as some review scores are given more weight. No one outside of metacritic knows the secret sauce.



outlawauron on 26 March 2014

I think it's become bad because journalists are hard overcorrecting from the inflated review scores on earlier generation games. Some of these reviews are keeping people from very good games.



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