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Forums - Gaming - Is it time for Metacritic to change?

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HesAPooka on 19 September 2013
irstupid said:
HesAPooka said:

This is not a metacritic problem. This is a video game critic problem. I can't speak for GTA as I've only played one of the games, but there does seem to be a lot of hypocrisy in the industry. One series will get shoved panned for not innovating, while others stay the same for 2, 3, 4 games, and each time they get brilliant reviews.

It all boils down to money.

How anyone can trust a video game reviewer when their money is solely coming from advertising money they get from video game companies is beyond me.

Be like if you picked up a consumer magazine to see what kind of car you should buy next and every ad in the magazine was for some Chevy vehicle.  Would you trust that magazine to be honest and unbiaced when reveiwing a Chevy vehicle?  

It's one of the main reason the huge enron and world com and other scandals with accounting happened.  Accounting firms were making like 30+ million dollars in consulting fees for those companies and only getting paid like 2 million to audit them.  If the accountants gave them a bad audit the company would just drop their firm from all consulting.  Thus would you let a company slide when you ahve like 90% of your firms revenue on the line?

Just like with accounting.  They made you have to be independent so that it no longer happened.  Gaming sites will never have my trust until they also are independent from advertising from within the industry.


Bingo, that pretty much sums up most review forums.



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