Best indictment on review scores yet.

[famousringo]

Barozi said:

RolStoppable said:
An important thing to note is that most games that receive an average score of 90 or higher are usually also among the most heavily marketed ones, so I would say that the correlation between review scores and sales is overrated.

I like the comments from developers in this article. Reviewers can be easily manipulated.

I hope the last line from Bilson was just a joke.

So this is the reason why Okami and World of Goo are up there.....

 

I think Rol is saying that they got good sales because they were heavily marketed, not that they got a high metascore because they were heavily marketed.

Although the whole point of marketing is to give the public a favourable view of your product. If it works on everybody else, there's no reason to assume that reviewers would be immune to the perspective-altering properties of advertising.