The problem with Metacritic and the Steam review system is that they aren't meaningful at all. They are a broken attempt at trying to gauge the customers response to the popularity of a product.AdánPasos wrote:@Lander1979
I don't think you've read a meaningful amount of Metacritic reviews if you believe that they (media or gamers) ask for perfect products.
If a developer or a publisher decides to release a game, people expect to at least being able to play the game without bugs that made unable to finish the campaign and which required to work wonders with the savefiles. Which is what happened to most of people at the initial stages of the game. And let's not forget the performance issues...
Sure they fixed it to a great stent, but why should people go and re-rate the game with every patch? Still too early to re-review the game IMO. They released a game and consumers and journalists reviewed it.
Do you think this is unfair? It serves them well for releasing an unfinished product to get cash. If they needed money before trully finishing the game it's not my problem, or at least they should have been honest and say it was in a beta stage.
Said that, I LIKE THE GAME, I HAVE PATIENCE. But let's not throw rocks to our own roofs as consumers and defend indefensible things.
How are they broken?
They are time biassed as they look at the popularity of the product from the very first review till the most recent, and try to compute their score on that information.
As soon as X-Rebirth got it's first patch, many of the posts in it's forum became "non-relevant" information, as the problems discussed were addressed by the patch, hence becoming "Necro-threads"and got treated as such, falling by the wayside.
Unfortunately, this is not the case with your "beloved Metacritic and Steam Review System", It is treating what should be "irrelevant and necrotic reviews" (things that have been changed and are no longer an existing issue) as the latest gossip, which it clearly is not, and is therefore time-biassed due to incorrect information.
They need to be controlled in some manner that reflects this "relevance" which they are not.
Hence I posit, they are broken, and need to be taken with a grain of salt.