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eva01beserk on 28 February 2015
Tachikoma said:
Nuvendil said:
What people are ignoring it seems is that the article makes it clear that this is about a rotten *minority* composed of small to midrange sites that need traffic. But nope, there will be people who will take the "evidence" from this article and use it whenever a reviewer hurts their feelings. Wonderful.

You are burrying your head in the sand and pretending the situation is all paranoia except for "Isolated cases"

If you think major sites don't stoop to such tactics to remain relevant, you're being way too nieve.


Even if it was not happening, what credibility has one guy/girl on something that might be viewed diferently by millions. Unless I identify 100% with one reviewer what ever they feel on a game wont be the same I feel on it, for better or worse. A review should be done by a group of at least 3 people with diferent taste in games so games get more fair scores then someone who loves COD reviewing the next COD, or polygon who hates nintendo reviewing anithing made by nintendo.



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Nuvendil on 28 February 2015
Tachikoma said:
Nuvendil said:
What people are ignoring it seems is that the article makes it clear that this is about a rotten *minority* composed of small to midrange sites that need traffic. But nope, there will be people who will take the "evidence" from this article and use it whenever a reviewer hurts their feelings. Wonderful.

You are burrying your head in the sand and pretending the situation is all paranoia except for "Isolated cases"

If you think major sites don't stoop to such tactics to remain relevant, you're being way too nieve.

I'm not saying it never happens.  Not saying it doesn't occasionally happen at big sites.  Polygon used to be big, look what they have been doing for a while.  But my point isn't that.  My point is that there are a LOT of people who say this every effing time a game that they are excited for gets a score of seven or lower.  And I'm here to tell you that most of the time, the claims are BS.  Not all the time.  But most of the time.  Critics aren't perfect and there are other flaws in the system, so the score won't always align with what a particular person wants.  



generic-user-1 on 28 February 2015
Mr_No said:
I kinda imagined this, even though many people would've labeled me as insane just for thinking that reviewers lowered their scores for a game just to have more hits. I'm sure The Order has its defects, but the dishonesty from the reviewers is really hurting the game, detracting people that would've still liked the game despite its shortcomings. I dare to say that the overall reviewers' reputation is now on the line. They are wrongly skewing the perception of games, and obviously developers aren't going to take that kindly.

its an anti-sony conspiracy... the illuminaty reptiloid zionists are behind it...



DanneSandin on 28 February 2015
generic-user-1 said:
Mr_No said:
I kinda imagined this, even though many people would've labeled me as insane just for thinking that reviewers lowered their scores for a game just to have more hits. I'm sure The Order has its defects, but the dishonesty from the reviewers is really hurting the game, detracting people that would've still liked the game despite its shortcomings. I dare to say that the overall reviewers' reputation is now on the line. They are wrongly skewing the perception of games, and obviously developers aren't going to take that kindly.

 

its an anti-sony conspiracy... the illuminaty reptiloid zionists are behind it...

HUSH! Don't spoil the surprise! D:



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Nate4Drake on 28 February 2015
Michelasso said:
I can only say that a 20/100 to a game extremely polished like The Order: 1886 can't be anything else than a clickbait for ads.

And yes, I clicked on that review myself, but I use the ad blocker so they have got no f.ing money from me

Yeah, I agree.   What about Quarter to Three who gave Halo4 a 20/100, or  Adam Rosenberg from Digital Trends a 20/100 to The Order 1886.

http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/11/04/halo-4-is-half-the-game-it-should-be/

http://www.digitaltrends.com/game-reviews/the-order-1886-review/

Both Games might not be the most innovative, or have some problems, etc, but a 20/100 ??  Come on, I can't take these people seriously.



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Conegamer on 28 February 2015

No surprises here. Such sites should not be included in Metacritic though; particularly if there's evidence.



 

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bananaking21 on 28 February 2015

whats the credibility of this?



Nate4Drake on 28 February 2015
Conegamer said:
No surprises here. Such sites should not be included in Metacritic though; particularly if there's evidence.

This.



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Mr_No on 28 February 2015
generic-user-1 said:
Mr_No said:
I kinda imagined this, even though many people would've labeled me as insane just for thinking that reviewers lowered their scores for a game just to have more hits. I'm sure The Order has its defects, but the dishonesty from the reviewers is really hurting the game, detracting people that would've still liked the game despite its shortcomings. I dare to say that the overall reviewers' reputation is now on the line. They are wrongly skewing the perception of games, and obviously developers aren't going to take that kindly.

 

its an anti-sony conspiracy... the illuminaty reptiloid zionists are behind it...

There's not enough aluminum paper to make a good tinfoil hat to protect us from them.

What I'm curious to know is how the developers and journalists will react to this.



generic-user-1 on 28 February 2015
Mr_No said:
generic-user-1 said:
Mr_No said:
I kinda imagined this, even though many people would've labeled me as insane just for thinking that reviewers lowered their scores for a game just to have more hits. I'm sure The Order has its defects, but the dishonesty from the reviewers is really hurting the game, detracting people that would've still liked the game despite its shortcomings. I dare to say that the overall reviewers' reputation is now on the line. They are wrongly skewing the perception of games, and obviously developers aren't going to take that kindly.

 

its an anti-sony conspiracy... the illuminaty reptiloid zionists are behind it...

There's not enough aluminum paper to make a good tinfoil hat to protect us from them.

What I'm curious to know is how the developers and journalists will react to this.

they will not react at all. they just dont care... EA could be caught shipping bags full of money to ign and nobody would care in the industrie.  the big ones are all doing it, and some of the indies just sleeps with the media for better reviews.