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Gaming - Review Inflation - View Post

What is the cause of the slowly raising 'average' score for games? I swear a game with an eight average is now considered to be an average game these days.

 

I get the feeling that game reviewers in general are convinced that the majority of games are better than average - so they rate the majority of games higher than average. This raises the average score of games in general meaning that reviewers then rate more games higher than this average.