Metacritic improving moderation after "abusive, disrespectful" Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores reviews
Metacritic has responded to Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores' recent review bombing.
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Metacritic improving moderation after "abusive, disrespectful" Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores reviews
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It's about damn time! Review bombing because there are two women kissing is snowflake manchild behavior.
Get a grip, gamer manchildren.
Get a grip, gamer manchildren.
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Yeah there are things I don't agree with in Tlou2 but I love the game itself and wouldnt review bomb a game just because of my personal beliefs or opinion. It's stupid!
This still doesnt sound like what it needs to be. There needs to be a product verification system in place before you can write any user review. For a site as big as metacritic its unacceptable they didnt have something along those lines + more in place already.
Here's what Metacritic actually said:
Sounds like nothing to me (internal policies are always evolving) and whatever changes are upcoming were prompted by past review bombing campaigns rather than this one specifically.
They should just drop the user review completely, it was always worthless and it's not fixable.
Just ask to verify if you have an Xbox / Microsoft gaming account and ban them from submitting reviews if they do. Simple!
Spongebob and Harry Potter say otherwise. Its good to have both the user and critic reviews and a good Metacritic user can get information from both.
Happened with others games…
It is pretty useless to use biased user review system.
TLOU2 was trashed in Meta user review due weird guys.
It is pretty useless to use biased user review system.
TLOU2 was trashed in Meta user review due weird guys.
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Does anyone outside of video game forums even care about reviews?
Anyone that puts any weight into Metacritic user score is a complete moron.
If you play single player games you probably do to some degree.
Its useful when looking for indie games that you haven't heard of or old releases that you might want to play but don't know much about.
People just use user-reviews to shit on games that are exclusive to platforms they don't like.
it can be so easy to fix. just make agreements with nintendo, sony, m$, that metacritic account is linked with those, and you can write review from your platform of choice after you bought the game. so this review will be visible on metacritic.
similar what Steam has done. you buy game, you can review it. it would filtrate most of this review bombing nonsense.
similar what Steam has done. you buy game, you can review it. it would filtrate most of this review bombing nonsense.
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I've never really looked at user reviews, for that I'll just ask one of my dozens of gamer friends who play the game.
I also never do it… it’s better to watch some gameplay videos.
Not necessarily as I would not have played Terminator on PS4 based on the shot. Likewise the hatchet job on Days Gone was redeemed by positive user scores. I bought and enjoyed the broken road on Day 1. Unless there is some way to see if the user has played it, I'd agree with withdrawing it until its fixed.
To be fair I'm sure there are some unfair stinkers of reviews of Xbox games. I don't think anyone can claim a moral superiority.