| ganoncrotch said:
Batman in its current state on the PC doesn't run, it should currently hold a 0% on meta, when the game is patched and working should it still be rated eternally as a game that doesn't run? just because of a launch window issue that would be gone from it. |
Yes. Companies are granted far too much leniency in regards to broken games and false advertisement and can already get away with launching broken games and letting thousands of consumers down by lying to them. They already control the embargos and if and who receives review copies so they could essentially embargo their games reviews until launch knowing full well that it is broken to some extent and then plan to fix it within two weeks facing no serious lasting effect because all those reviews at launch have been removed. Companies already have too much power when it comes to reviews, they don't deserve good pr and advertisement from metacritic if they fixed their broken game 4 months after release.
Seriously how many reviewers are going to agree to rereview a game that already came out? Half as many as had reviewed it in the first place? Most likely around a tenth if that. Also, where do we draw the line in this? What if a game ages terribly? Are we to go back and rereview these games as well and if not why would we only rereview games that were broken and now fixed?
