Halo 4 gets a 20/100 on Meta, proves eview system is broken.

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Boutros said:

Some people seem to underestimate the importance of metascores for a given company and it's employees.
It's become a standard in the industry to have the highest metascore as possible.

They're used in financial statements to sway investors and reassure shareholders.

Bonus are given to developers if games reach certain metascore thresholds.

It's also the legacy the game leaves behind summed up in a single number (for people who never played it).

Thats bad stuff in the bolded, honestly. That would lead people to offer more bribes than actually make devs want to try IMHO and it gives too much power to reviewers. Companies should stop paying that much attention to metacritic