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papflesje on 10 February 2010

That's the weird thing: we were screened for several months before being allowed.



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gekkokamen on 10 February 2010

and this piece of shit? http://www.gamestyle.net/#fp-reviews

how can this site be accepted in Metacritic? (when they posted their KZ2 review it was THEIR FIRST REVIEW LOL! it seemed to me then they just created the site to bash that game with a 60! ) I'll ask again, how come VGC is not on metacritic yet?



theprof00 on 10 February 2010
papflesje said:
That's the weird thing: we were screened for several months before being allowed.

even still, I wouldn't exactly call us professional. Although I think our reviewers understand the concept and are actually very qualified and professional, I think there is a fundamental "disconnect" with the value of the scores they assign. No offense to anybody in particular.



Kantor on 10 February 2010
gekkokamen said:

^you call this site proffesional?

http://www.ntsc-uk.com/index.php?menu=sony

LOL. They just made a review on U2 and were accepted on Metacritic? and their dirty score lowered the meta from 97 to 96? c'mon! where the F* do these losers come from? how come VGC isn't on metacritic already ? lol I might as welll make me a couple of "game sites" and start spamming shitty reviews here and there for any games I feel doing it.

Metacritic has higher standards than you might think. They don't accept every review site ever. There are just over 100 reviews for Uncharted 2 on Metacritic, more than any other game. N4G has 381 reviews.

And yes, that site is perfectly professional. He makes perfectly valid points and gives good reasons for giving the game an 8/10. It's an unpopular opinion, but that doesn't mean it's bad. And is there any real difference between a 96 and a 97? Or, for that matter, a 90 and an 89?

As for why VGC isn't on Meta/GR, it's all to do with quantity. We'll probably be up there in the next couple of months.



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dirkd2323 on 10 February 2010

Great scores, I will buy



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EncodedNybble on 10 February 2010

LOL sorry theprof00, reading comprehension fail.



gekkokamen on 10 February 2010

@theprof00

at least we know nobody is money-hatted here to give high scores to a game!



Psfan999 on 10 February 2010

When mass effect 2 beats this game's metacritic score, that's when you know just how much of an asshole Jim Sterling is.



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papflesje on 10 February 2010
theprof00 said:
papflesje said:
That's the weird thing: we were screened for several months before being allowed.

even still, I wouldn't exactly call us professional. Although I think our reviewers understand the concept and are actually very qualified and professional, I think there is a fundamental "disconnect" with the value of the scores they assign. No offense to anybody in particular.

I wasn't talking about VGC :p

As Kantor said (and I guessed), there's also a question of quantity (and regularity). Variety is not a problem, the size and scope of the website isn't a problem either, so they should be showing up on Metacritic some day too.

 

@ kantor: You sure about those several months? Because I thought they had a "minimum number of reviews" before even considering a site?



theprof00 on 10 February 2010

@nybble
no prob, sorry if i came off as terse lol.

@gekko
oh absolutely. In that situation, the quality would never improve.