| tokilamockingbrd said: Destuctiod (who is usually pretty harsh on games) just added their review and its an 85. Metacritic needs to think of a way to prevent click bait reviews from getting added to the total. I think any score 20 points outside of the mean should get dropped and the new score calculated without it. If more bad scores come in the total will get lowered and then the scores would be shown. So if a game has a 72 on meta All of the 10s and 95s would get tossed but so would the 20s and 40s.... |
It all works out in the end. Click bait on smaller reviewers dampens the effects of the advertising payouts on larger reviews. If they started filtering which reviews to include for each specific review (after having already narrowed the field by determining which publications they draw from) Metacritic would lose all creditibility. Truly good games have fewer "click bait" reviews, since there is a fine line between sensationalism (which brings in readers, but doesn't neccessarily destroy your audience via credibility) and absurdity.
What would be the measure (acid test) of what constitutes a "click bait" review, anyway? If it were simply an outlying score, you'd remove the whole point of having people weigh in with their opinions. As fara as this game is concerned, all the reviewers find the same basic flaws. The given scores differ depending on how important those particular aspects are in a game to the said reviewer. That's how criticism works.
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