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[JoshieoPandar]

Lesson here, don't buy a game based off one review...

[Ob4rul3r]

Calm done, guys .... IF they wanted to cheat you with faked User Reviews, they would have hired a PR agency for the job, these guys would have spamed Metacritic with a bunchload of different Accounts that noone would be able to identify "who" is posting there ....



Imo in this case a Bioware Employee rated the game on his own, and he simply liked it to the max ... maybe he wanted to do sth. good for his company as well by giving the full 10/10, but I honestly doubt that there was any order by EA to do this ... srsly, 1 top score review is patheticly sparse, compared to the ****storm of "0"-reviews at Metacritic, if the wanted to trick you they would have done better, so calm down, you are seeing too much in that story .... :-/

[Ad Dugg]

malakian wrote...


FTC Guide Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising:
"§ 255.5. Example 8 concerns a message board with reviews and gives the example of a manufacturer's employee posting:
Knowledge of this poster’s employment likely would affect the weight or credibility of her endorsement.
Therefore, the poster should clearly and conspicuously disclose her
relationship to the manufacturer to members and readers of the message board"

That's some really really interesting stuff there.

Do you think the guy was even aware of this though?

It still just screams out one guy making a rash decision without thinking because alot of the critiques of DA2 are none founded and he had enough and decided to post a response without thinking.

Rash yes, but not this evil conspiricy it's being made out to be.

Modifié par Ad Dugg, 18 mars 2011 - 06:13 .

[Sen4lifE]

AllThatJazz wrote...

Sen4lifE wrote...

Unless there is a way to connect the Avanost account on Metacritic to the Avanost account on Plurk, this will not become more than a conspiracy.

It could be a foul poisonous move by a BioWare respresentative as much as it could be a foul impersonation by someone attempting to convince people of BioWare's "evil."

Use your thinking brains people, here is your evidence on one side:

Chris Habon is the name of a BioWare software tech and owns a Plurk account with the same name of someone giving a good review on Metacritic, a shady good review.

Here's your other evidence:

The reviewer on Metacritic is freshly new and has only reviewed Dragon Age II.  Just as new as the one who wrote the conspiracy report, that being his first post as stated.  And, it has already made two threads on the forums, spontaneously.  There has already been a known, organized attack on Dragon Age II reviews.

Here's your lack of evidence:

 Any connection between the Chris at BioWare to the Chris at Plurk to the reviewer.  Coincidence is still only enough for assumption: Innocent until proven guilty.

Any connection between the forum posters to the one who wrote the conspiracy report to the one who posted the review and any relevance of previous attacks.


Do with it what you will, but try to think about all points of view before jumping to conclusions.

You may be right. But the Internet is not the place for common sense. 

And so I stand corrected.

[Sen4lifE]

malakian wrote...

AllThatJazz wrote...

Sen4lifE wrote...

Unless there is a way to connect the Avanost account on Metacritic to the Avanost account on Plurk, this will not become more than a conspiracy.

It could be a foul poisonous move by a BioWare respresentative as much as it could be a foul impersonation by someone attempting to convince people of BioWare's "evil."

Use your thinking brains people, here is your evidence on one side:

Chris Habon is the name of a BioWare software tech and owns a Plurk account with the same name of someone giving a good review on Metacritic, a shady good review.

Here's your other evidence:

The reviewer on Metacritic is freshly new and has only reviewed Dragon Age II.  Just as new as the one who wrote the conspiracy report, that being his first post as stated.  And, it has already made two threads on the forums, spontaneously.  There has already been a known, organized attack on Dragon Age II reviews.

Here's your lack of evidence:

 Any connection between the Chris at BioWare to the Chris at Plurk to the reviewer.  Coincidence is still only enough for assumption: Innocent until proven guilty.

Any connection between the forum posters to the one who wrote the conspiracy report to the one who posted the review and any relevance of previous attacks.


Do with it what you will, but try to think about all points of view before jumping to conclusions.

You may be right. But the Internet is not the place for common sense. 

this is void as EA admitted and defended doing it to kotaku, citing 'barack obama probably voted for himself'. Clearly dont get the difference between voting for your product (ie the hype machine that's been ongoing up until release) and posing as a 'user' to boost review scores.

FTC Guide Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising:
"§ 255.5. Example 8 concerns a message board with reviews and gives the example of a manufacturer's employee posting:
Knowledge of this poster’s employment likely would affect the weight or credibility of her endorsement.
Therefore, the poster should clearly and conspicuously disclose her
relationship to the manufacturer to members and readers of the message board"

They admitted it?  Proof now plox.

[Cloaking_Thane]

It says Guide right in the title doesnt it

[Toenail]

who cares, is the game good?