| shikamaru317 said: No, it's 100% shitty that publishers pull that bs on devs, I agree with you there (though efficiency bonuses are common in many industries, my dad works on a printing press and gets large gift cards whenever his press manages to print over 97% useable pages for a month). I'm just saying that some publishers do pull that metacritic bonus BS, and we have sites with totally different review methodologies across the industry, some only using the 50-100 portion of the scale and some using the full 0-100 scale; the critics that choose to use the full 0-100 scale instead of the industry standard 50-100 scale that most use, create a system that is rigged against these developers who are unlucky enough to be paid a bonus based on metacritic performance. I wonder how many of them realize the damage they may be doing to those devs, or if they only care about doing their own job of reviewing games. |
Don't you realize how wrong this sounds? The problem lies 100% with the publishers. Efficiency bonuses tied to efficiency make sense, as well as sharing part of the profit with the employees (as CDPR does). Buyers are the ultimate critics in the end. It wouldn't make sense to tie a bonus to how some arbitrary reviewers judge the quality of the paper printed by your dad.
Plus it's Metacritic's fault for not aggregating scores in a balanced way. Either they should stretch all the 50-100 scores to a 0-100 scale, or compress the 0-100 scores to the 50-100 scale. Then you have the 1 to 5 star reviews, how do hey handle that.
Basically you're asking to put any integrity aside in fear of developers missing out on a bonus. How can any reviews be trusted anymore when this practice exists. What is the point of a review nowadays. Not that journalistic integrity is still a thing ugh.
Anyway now more than ever it doesn't make sense to buy day one anymore, let alone pre-order. You get a still unfinished product with rushed reviews that can't tell you how the game actually is in the long run. We went from slamming games for day 1 problems to now assuming that everything will be fixed asap. There's only one thing certain, you can't tie a score to a game on day one. The times of games being complete and static from launch are long gone.
Metacritic is only good for list wars, nothing else :/
