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EDGE Asks, Is Metacritic Damaging the Games Industry?

Submitted by badman on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 13:57

With review aggregator websites like Metacritic and Game Rankings being more popular than ever, the latest issue of EDGE Magazine takes a look at the various impacts they are having on the games industry. Splash Damage main man Paul Wedgwood is one of the game developers offering their take on the matter in the piece, which also features Metacritic founder Marc Doyle. The full article can be found in the March issue of EDGE, while an abridged version of it is now available here on EDGE's website.

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kamikazee
I agree with the notion that metacritic is no good for incentive plans. Incentives can be evil, and can make you shoot your company in the foot.
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Posted on 19 February, 2009 - 18:57
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Nail
“‬The* ‬negative side is if developers are penalised for achieving low scores despite not having control over the resources and schedule for the project.*” so true
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Posted on 19 February, 2009 - 20:28
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Joe999
Well upon this issue, I do not think there will be anyone who disagree with what you said in the above. I do gain a lot from what you say. [url=http://www.chargerschina.com]car charger[/url]\
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Posted on 3 March, 2009 - 11:56
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badman
Haha, at least they're getting funnier :D
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Posted on 3 March, 2009 - 12:08
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Joe999
for my part metacritic isn't damaging as much as the no-demo policy does, with which some companies try to fool honest customers. i probably missed a lot of good games because there were no demos for them and hence i had to wait for the metacritic. even worse is the no-demo policy and the no-negative-reviews-until-launch-day embargo. after i threw my money out of the window with buying expensive low quality games which had neither reviews nor demos on launch day, i almost stopped buying/playing games. i totally lost faith in the games industry because of those bogus selling methods.
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Posted on 3 March, 2009 - 12:24