Kotaku’s Jason Schreier, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at last month’s PAX East convention, published his feature story about Metacritic today, and it’s well worth reading all the way through. In it, he speaks to a number of publishers and developers about how Metacritic is used …
As I reported, Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 have a lot of troll reviews from Battlefield fanboys who are making the community look bad and vice versa. However, Glen Schofield of Sledgehammer Games, wrote on his twitter to ask fans to help the score.
Now this is just really immature. Critics have given Modern Warfare 3 a very nice score of 90, but users who think their reviews honestly mean that much when they get a trolling streak have brought the average rating down to a score below 3.
It’s a sad day when a great game such as Dragon Age 2 needs to have engineers boost the rating on, the popular game rating site, Metacritic. The BioWare employee has posted a positive review for the game with the username Avanost which he then linked …
