Naughty Dog's Jonathan Cooper reveals that due to Metacritic's scoring methods he has lost out on "tens of thousands" of dollars in bonus pay.
Chained Echoes is getting slammed, and its devs have no idea why - Calling on Metacritic to do more.
Who doesn't have anything bad to write in these blank reviews and would benefit from sympathy sales?
I still say they should just get rid of the user score. They are untrustworthy of both good and bad review and honestly user reviews arent even a review. Of course tie it with the psn/xb account would be better.
That is simply horrible! The game is one of the best games, if not the best game of last year. Play this! Forget the bugged and rigged system of review bombing, just buy it and support Matthias and his team. These guys are superb!! We need to fight this stuff as a community, because small indie devs are the ones who least deserve this type of mistreatment.
User reviews are screwed for obvious reason and so are “professional” reviews because of money that companies throw around in many ways.
I just buy games that I think I will enjoy. Some devs you know make good games. Some long lasting series I know I will enjoy. Mostly I know what a game I want to play looks like. On rare occasion I get it wrong but I just sell it on eBay but that’s rare these days.
By most accounts this is a good game. I haven’t played it yet waiting for my physical copy.
Put it this way, I love jrpgs, but usually I play for 10 hours and move on. I had 80 hours in chained echoes and 100 percented it. The story is great and the game is beautiful. If you have game pass play it right now! If not buy it!
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the problem with those bonuses is that it gives too much power to the reviewers. And depending on the kind of agenda that the reviewer wants to push the results can be devastating for the game dev, especially with the Game Journo Pros group around.
Although what Cooper is talking about here is a bit different. Because ND's past 4 games are all 90+ on Metacritic, so I don't quiet understand how they still lost money....
It's certainly a flawed system by nature, but I often question which sites they include, at what time, and how many sites of each platform. Things get skewed quickly. Hopefully they can make some improvements soon, these complaints have existed for a very long time.
Okay?This means he's just greedy
I can careless about review scores.Deadly premonition,Silent hill downpour,Yakuza 4... are prime examples for me
Terrible aggregate site, they basically rob property owners just to butt their head where it doesn't belong. The only good aggregate site is Rotten Tomatoes and that has no hand in the games industry.
At least they don't let users control the score I.E. IMDB. That is the mothership of bad websites.
Criticizing gaming journalist site's., you brave, especially with how emotion based and sensitive they are.