There are a few who do that from time to time and well, it does maybe lower the Metascore (Forza Horizon 2 or some Uncharted as example would have maybe 1-2 points higher without Quarter to Three and the likes) but let's be honest here, for games with many reviews this doesn't change much overall. A game like The Order wouldn't be a 70+ game if a few reviewers wouldn't give it much less as it deserves. After all it also got a 95 and you can say the exact same thing about this score just in the opposite direction. Maybe it would have a 67 instead but some too high scores counter some too low scores already so that the average will be around the same as if these extreme scores wouldn't be there.
Same goes for all the other games which got an average high or low score with a few scores in an extreme opposite direction but yeah, in the end we don't talk about games with only a few reviews so that single scores change much here since that are games where you can't get much attention for, we talk about huge games with 60+ different reviews on Metacritic.
The Order isn't 10 or even 20 points lower on Metacritic just because reviewers want attention, Ryse or Knack aren't 80+ games in reality (maybe for some single tastes) and Forza Horizon 2 is also not a 95+ game and "only" in the 80s just because Quarter to Three didn't like it^^
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