So, was Nintendo right?

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Boutros said: You're putting too much faith on people's honesty. Anyone could pretend they've finished a game or are big fans of the developers and then give it a low score because in reality they've never played the game and probably own a rival console. That's why user scores or reviews are meaningless. People lie.

 

And this is what the Metacritic founder said when LittleBigPlanet got swarmed with haters back in 2008:

"My advice for our faithful users is to focus your attention on the Metascore for this game and not the thousands of user votes, most of which have been submitted before said users have played the game. This is a gaming community, and if people want to stuff the ballot box, there’s not much I can do at this point."

That was the final nail in the coffin for me.

I would say that I'm putting the exact right amount of faith in people.

If 1,000 fanboys give a game a 10 and 700 haters give it a zero, that is valuable information.

If 80 critics give it an average score of 9/10 then that is also valuable information. 

The critics aren't more right than the fanboys and the fanboys aren't more right than the haters because the only person who can be the arbiter of a game's quality is me when it comes down to it. 

It's on me to sift through all the information and make a choice. No one website or scoring system can do that for me. They can help though.