1. people like convinence: suggesting that everone read the article is counter to everything the masses want...deal with it.
2. a higher grandularity system (ala rottentomatoes.com 0-100%) is great because people like the know the difference between a movie/game that is pretty ok from pretty good from really good to omg this is amazing.
3. the only thing that is broken about services like metacritic when compared to rottentomatoes is that there aren't enough people writing reviews to get a truely accurate aggregation of public opinion. as video games become more popular these types of systems will be much more reliable.








