Starfield, is it getting review bombed?
Starfield, is it getting review bombed?
Seems kind of like the game is just suffering from reactionaries, but I definitely don't put that much stock in critic reviews these days either.
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People like to claim any big ticket game that doesn't get like 8/10 or higher is being review bombed. Seems as if people have legit criticisms of the game and it's pretty fairly reviewed.
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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.
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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 total 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 rating manipulation.
Why do you keep talking about metacritic as if I'm in any way defending it? Just simply stating its being review bombed and I'm glad you've come to the same conclusion.
Because my initial comment was about metacritic and my argument is that metacritic is a bad indicator of review bombing because it actually encourages it
You didn't actually mention metacritic in the comment I replied to.. you said people claim a review bomb and I said well yeah, it is. I really dont care about metacritic either but its kinda annoying when people bend definitions because a word has gotten a certain connotation.
Check the usernames, that wasn't me
So my question repeats: why mention it as if I'm defending it when I merely correctly stated its a review bomb. Like why are you trying to make that a discussion when it's not..