curl-6 said:
oniyide said:
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).
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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
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Wait, I actually agree with Oniyide? What next, water flowing uphill and cats chasing dogs? :p
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god damn, metacritic. I think we can all agree on that! I use it once in a while just to get the gist of a game. BUt i dont let it really influence me, i usually just stick to 3 or 4 publications with reviewers i trust and go from there thats all you can do. There are a bunch of games that have high meta scores that i dont think should have them (Crysis2, MW3) and some games I would rate higher myself (ToGf for instance) thats all we can do.
Not saying your not right Boutros, i just dont like it.
