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JayWood2010 said:

I got in to contact with Metacritic today and Quarter to Three about removing them from metacritic.  The good news is that Metacritic responded.  The bad news is, metacritic trusts him

Here is the message i recieved

Marc Doyle

5:54 PM (53 minutes ago)
 
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Hey John,

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.  Tom Chick (the owner/operator/critic) is an experienced hand with 20 years in the game reviews biz. And no, his use of the full scale is not clickbait.  Here's another dissenting voice (who is a veteran critic):

http://techland.time.com/2012/09/18/50-best-websites-2012/slide/quarter-to-three/

I appreciate your thoughts on the matter,
Best,

Marc
metacritic
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Spoke to Marc years ago, he's useless



 

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Seece said:

Spoke to Marc years ago, he's useless


The best thing i could say is either start a petition or people start sending him messages one after the other.  Im tempted to make a thread about it as the gaming community has been very vocal about the credibility of QTT




       

Ka-pi96 said:
So basically Metacritic are saying they couldn't really give a toss which reviewers are on their site.

He has a stranglehold on it, has for years. No petition ect would work.





 

Seece said:
Ka-pi96 said:

He has a stranglehold on it, has for years. No petition ect would work.



That is kind ignoring your viewers to be honest.  To be fair he replied to me pretty quickly and was professional about it and also gave me some tips so I can't say anything bad about Marc.  I dont agree with keeping QTT but i have nothing against Marc per say




       

I think the Metacritic guy missed the point. Its not about "using the whole scale", it's about giving good games the lowest possible score to let it look as if it would be as bad as "Fighter Within" or giving other stupid scores.

Nobody has a problem with giving really bad games only 1/5 but giving trash high scores or quality products the same score as really bad games is just wrong.

I mean, this guy says that games like Forza Horizon 2, Halo 4, Total War: Rome II, Magic 2014 and other good games are the worst games on the market...



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crissindahouse said:
I think the Metacritic guy missed the point. Its not about "using the whole scale", it's about giving good games the lowest possible score to let it look as if it would be as bad as "Fighter Within" or giving other stupid scores.

Nobody has a problem with giving really bad games only 1/5 but giving trash high scores or quality products the same score as really bad games is just wrong.


Pretty much this.  I didnt argue with him though.  But i do completely agree with you.  Its that he give critically acclaimed games like Halo, Journey, Far Cry, etc low scores when they dont deserve that.  I tried explaining it but he disagreed.




       

Damned now even lego games has season passes :s...I know they had some dlc characters before but now it is going in a direction I really don't like...

DLC in the hobbit would have been welcome just for adding the new films mission....



lol would be awesome to see him as a float xD

So question. When you guys scroll over your threads in the Vgchartz Buddy, is it showing you how many comments are in it? or some reason mine isnt




       

JayWood2010 said:
lol would be awesome to see him as a float xD

So question. When you guys scroll over your threads in the Vgchartz Buddy, is it showing you how many comments are in it? or some reason mine isnt

yes (new posts, not overall amount)



crissindahouse said:
JayWood2010 said:

yes (new posts, not overall amount)


Hmm, wonder why its doing that to me then.