Exclusive: Critics Admit To Lowering Scores For Attention.

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Nate4Drake said:

After The Order: 1886‘s fiasco, some once again started to wonder: Will a critic give a game a lower overall score simply to get clicks for the website? Remember, these reviews are provided free of charge; it costs nothing to see these reviews and as such, all critics are at the whim of ad revenue. And as ads are driven purely by clicks, digital editors obviously encourage articles and reviews that would get the most attention. This has become a bigger and bigger problem in recent years, and it has led to purposely sensationalized reviews and scores. Three of our critics, who will remain anonymous and not disclose where they work or have worked, have stood up:

Article lost me here. How are The Order reviews a fiasco? What should the game have gotten? Sure there were some scores that were way too low, those 20s and 40s... but someone also gave it 95... So really it goes both ways. There's also the fact that this is unsourced, which doesn't make it realiable.