ObiWanGurobi
@ObiWanGurobi@feddit.de
- Comment on I'll never not want to 1 year ago:
My two cockatiels Oreo and Kiri preening each other
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
I’m not even making it a discussion. You mentioned metacritic in your (now edited) comment and I explained why metacritic’s system actively encourages review bombing. So it’s no wonder you’ll see a decent amount of review bombing there.
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
Check the usernames, that wasn’t me
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
Because my initial comment was about metacritic and my argument is that metacritic is a bad indicator of review bombing because it literally encourages it
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
The reason it’s lower on metacritic is mainly due to the fact that the critics rating is too high, imo. This leads to disappointed players leaving extra bad scores (i.e. 0/10) to offset the score. In a way that’s review bombing, but only as a reaction to the inflated critics’ reviews (which I often suspect to be bought or bribed).
Usually the Steam reviews are a lot more reliable. As I said, metacritic’s system is shit and encourages review manipulation.
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
Metacritic’s user rating system is just shit. You see the game rated higher than deserved and you can either
- give it an honest rating resulting in the total score dropping by 0.01
- give it a zero rating and have the score drop by 0.1
Of course most people chose to rate it in a way that has more impact on the total score, so it’s no wonder we see 0/10 and 10/10 more than anything else.
This phenomenon will be even more exaggerated if critics ratings are undeservedly high, as is the case with Starfield.
