Something is telling me this has little to do with Metacritic's practices and more to do with keeping that high Little Big Planet average.
Since quite a few people in this thread can't grasp why Metacritic would assign scores, allow me to explain. Unlike video games, which have a score a good 95% of the time, the other portions of Metacritic, books, movies, television and music only have scores on the reviews 50% of the time, if that. A lot of the most well respected publications that review these other forms of entertainment do not give scores. It's because of this that Metacritic enters a score for a scoreless review. Without them, those people going to MC looking for reviews will be a bit disheartened to not find some of their favorite review sources represented and it could even keep certain reviewed material to not reach the minimum requirements to have a Metacritic average. Games just happen to not get any special treatment, so they get bunched into the same rule. As others have said, either live with it, or stop using the website. There's always Gamerankings.
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