Metacritic blacklist games publication

[Dark Drakan]

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It has been revealed that the market-leading aggregation site Metacritic has removed a certain games publication from appearing in their review listings. Certain corrupt practices have been uncovered and now the publication has been blacklisted and will no longer feature in the average review scores worked out on Metacritic. Its not known as of yet what corrupt practices had been undertaken. ​

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Metacritic co-founder Marc Doyle had the following to say...​

There are many reasons why I would drop somebody [from games review listings]. There's corruption - people can be bought, absolutely. It [comes down] to a number of things: It's the quality of the analysis, the quality of the writing; do they have an audience; are they respected in the gaming community... is there a reputation for scoring integrity? ​

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[That means] are they going to give [a game] 4/5 and say it's one of the best of the year, and then give another game 4/5 and say it's really a letdown. I've got to see that they're being responsible internally with that scoring. If they're not - if they're being irresponsible, or being contrarian or ridiculous, which happens all the time - I won't pick them up.​

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People have screwed around and just tried to dig for hits for various reasons, and so we've lost a lot of sites for ridiculous reasons," he said. "But I mean, the stuff's not highly publicised. It's stuff I see, then I talk to them [and say]: 'Guys, you're going down a bad path here.' We're going to rethink our partnership. And then there are some big [sites] who didn't necessarily want to be on Metacritic, or they're doing some things that I think make them not such a great fit for our system.​

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[Gikoku]

It's not always the same person doing each review though, different people with different opinions, though some clearly have a warped view on what's a good game and what isn't. Some people are also way too generous with their scoring of a game that should have gotten lower.

It'd be interesting if sites would start reviewing games without the use of a score system, like Joystiq would do. Would definitely quiet down some of the "paid off" conspiracies, and silly raging of "6/10??? WTF!?!? IT SHOULD BE ATLEAST A 9!!"

 

[L0ki]

I'm too lazy to read the entire article.

What publications or games have been dropped?

 

[Dark Drakan]

I'm too lazy to read the entire article.

What publications or games have been dropped?

They havent said who yet but im sure it shall leak out or someone will work it out. They arent sure yet if the publications were being paid off by certain developers or what, so many different things are being speculated about at the moment.

 

[Gikoku]

They havent said who yet but im sure it shall leak out or someone will work it out. They arent sure yet if the publications were being paid off by certain developers or what, so many different things are being speculated about at the moment.

Well.. after what happened with the Kane & Lynch scandal at Gamespot, it wouldn't surprise me if others are actually getting paid off once in awhile.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Well.. after what happened with the Kane & Lynch scandal at Gamespot, it wouldn't surprise me if others are actually getting paid off once in awhile.

Yeah i remember that all to well, some publications are bound to favour certain developers if they are sent freebies for example (*hint hint* any out there). :lol: