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IcaroRibeiro said:
curl-6 said:

The views of critics and the broader audience diverge all the time.

Many games/movies/etc that reviewed very highly sold poorly cos the broader audience didn't care for them, and many games that were very popular and successful with the wider audience saw mediocre reviews from critics.

This doesn't make the score of audiences and critics diverge, it only means few people played/watched the movies/games in question. Niche movies have very high scores on sites like imdb or letterboxd, or even on research institutes like cinemascore that measures what people who went to theaters felt about the movies they watched

And a game can sell millions and still have pretty bad reception from the millions of players who played the game. Some things sells a lot even if the consensus is that said thing is mediocre or even outright bad, sometimes only because people are curious about the concept, or because is what the trend of the moment and you suffering FOMO. Palworld comes to mind

It does actually, critics and consumers disagree frequently, because critics are typically a certain kind of person that tend to have certain preferences and biases while the total audience is a much more heterogenous group with more diverse preferences.

There is no such thing as objective quality because playing a game is an inherently subjective experience shaped by individual perception.