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[squee365]

Anybody else have the feeling that from now on, all Bioware games are going to have their metacritic userscore bombed? I mean, regardless of how good the game actually is, I feel like people are going to ignore the game and just still go crazy with rating the game '0'. I'm worried this is going to happen with Mass Effect 3, and most likely the new C&C game. Its happening right now with the Old Republic, and it seems to be the "cool thing" to do to bomb a userscore, especially after DAII. Anybody else feel like metacritic can't be trusted anymore?

[Stanley Woo]

The internet is full of users who believe that, in order to be heard, one must exhibit the extremes of emotion or opinion. Anything good is "THE BEST THING EVAR" and anything they disagree with or don't like is "THE WORST THING EVAR." So it is with user reviews. You have to bust through the purely emotional scores and reviews in order to find the ones who are genuinely reporting their experience. And this goes for both the scores you agree with and the scores you don't.

A user review site is only as good as its users, so if most of the users aren't posting credible reviews or scores, anyone using that site to research a game may have to work that much harder to get the information they want. Whether such a site can be "trusted" is immaterial. No site which posts a review or score can be "trusted." It all comes down to whether you, as a consumer, trust the people posting such reviews and scores.

Like with any review site, if you believe in and "trust" the word of a certain website, then who is anyone else to tell you you're wrong? People can only agree or disagree with those you agree with, and we can (and should) do so with respect and maturity.

[Stanley Woo]

Veex wrote...

I won't be surprised to see all future BioWare games trolled in this fashion, no.

Personally, I would consider that a counter-productive action, since continuing to troll games not only undermines the "trustworthiness" of a given site (unless you happen to agree with the ultra-high or ultra-low scores, of course), but may ultimately create a backlash of opinion that, since people are trying so hard to review-bomb the game, it must have some decent qualities to it. I mean, why try so hard to trash something if it truly is worthless, right?

I've often said that the polar of opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

[Stanley Woo]

wolfsite wrote...

Honestly in the end only one opinion matters...... your own.

I have been on other forums were someone who brings up a metacritic rating often gets dismissed so the reputation of the site has taken a hit already.

I find your two statements here contradictory, wolfsite. My point is that the "reputation" of a site is immaterial, since different people will "trust" or "not trust" a given site for very different reasons and it's not really anyone else's concern what those reasons are. For example, I may say that I don't use Site A's user rating averages because its system is prone to misuse. Most likely, I would say that because I often disagree with its ratings.

Another user may agree with many of that same site's ratings and trust it implicitly, for his or her own reasons. It's not up to us to disavow someone else of their beliefs or their information sources, as I said before, but to be able to discuss our differences and disagreements in the spirit of friendship, mutual respect and, of course, being excellent to each other as fellow gamers.

[Stanley Woo]

Suprez30 wrote...

I think you worry to much Squee.
We also call what happened to DA2 at metacritic ...

antisocial personality disorder

As much as I might sympathize with those suffering from genuine psychological disorders, I wonder how much of the negativity we see online is just plain egotism, self-entitlement and the inability to articulate one's arguments. No one likes to "lose" an argument, after all, and everyone wants to feel like their opinions are "right," or at least "popular."