Would you be upset if VGChartz altered old review scores?

[Gilgamesh]

naznatips said:

Gilgamesh said:

Of course not

In the VG Chartz team forum there is just a few people that usually goes over the reviews that someone writes up and could mean the score may be still to low or to high, but when you get the opinion of a hundred people replying to the review and everyone is saying it should be higher or lower then maybe the score should be change to satisfy what the VG Chartz members thinks instead of what the people that wrote up and approved the review think (As long as the members have good enough reasons to drop or raise the score).

Sinse the review IS technically the websites (VG chartz) review and score, not just one persons opinion. When you see a review on Metacritic it wont say the review came from Torillian or Machina it's going to say VG Chartz reviews.

That's the way I see it.

Reviews are not, nor should they ever be, determined by the popular opinion. They are a professional analysis of a game. Obviously people will not always agree with that analysis, but a review should always be an analysis whether you agree with it or not. Some people will, some will not. 

Thankfully for this site you have absolutely no say at all about how I run the reviews.

And that's perfectly fine, everyones doing a great job with making reviews, I know I doubt I'd ever be able to write up a review so I respect everyone that does it and the amount of effort they put into it. I understand that reviews are not public opinion and pretty well all websites are the same, but it would be nice. Like I said as long as the public has a good enough reason for needing to lower or raise the score.

Just for special occasions it would be nice to adjust the score, if you have a few hundred people replying and disagreeing with what the reviewer said (and the public had a really good reason why) then there must be something wrong, no? It's not like every review you have the majority of people disagreeing with the reviewer, a lot of the times they'll be praised with the good work that they done.

(Not saying all reviews would need this but maybe 1 of every 100).

I understand what your getting at though, if VG Chartz was accepted into Metacritic or Gamerankings it wouldn't look very proffesional of us if we were changing our scores. So whatevers best for the website.