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Kasz216 on 02 August 2007
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ckmlb said:

The whole comparing tiny downloadable games and saying they legitimize reviewing games based on price is ridiculous.

Everyone knows those games are rated on a different scale than full games.

The idea that Warhawk or any other big game is losing points cause it was priced above what the reviewer thought it should be is stupid.

The claim that price effects reviews always is just covering their ass. It has more to do with how much stuff there is in the game and how well that's done than with the price.

If Shadowrun got an 8.0 and has multiplayer only and is priced at 60 dollars, doesn't this mean it would have gotten 9 or something according to this arbitrary 1 point off rule if it was 40 dollars?

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If you don't like the price of a game don't buy it. On the other hand, if you don't like the price of a game and you tell me the game's quality is lower because of the price this is BS. Assigning a random 1 point off penalty for overpricing that makes the whole review scoring system pointless because if the score doesn't reflect the actual review of the game then it shouldn't be there.

Either just have written reviews of games without numbered scores and mention issues you have with them or score games based on your review of the quality of it and don't put ridiculous rules about pricing changing how good the game was in the first place that effectively make the point score and the written review mismatch.


Perhaps they don't think Warhawk is a big time game?  That it doesn't compare with the other full price games therefore charging more then half what a full price game would cost would be too much because it's just not that good of a game?  I mean it isn't arbitrary.  You are going from a half priced game to over a half priced game.  Half priced seems like a very logical place to end a tier for value. 

 EDIT: By the same point.  If Mario Galaxy was cheaper it's reveiw would be raised.  They did give a fair review as a half priced game, if it becomes more then half price it effects it's value.  Seems logical to me.