earlier this year, there were articles in two magazines, Game Informer and GAMEPRO magazines, that said the same thing: Metacritic scores are very important, so important that employees of game developers that they interviewed actually have clauses in their contracts with the game developer that they work for that says that bonuses are directly tied to the Metacritic score of the game they are working on.
And if you look at some people on this website, they treat the day that the Metacritic score of a particular game will be released as just as important as the day the actual game comes out!!
for many people, the metacritic score BECOMES the actual quality of the game!!







