Tuesday, March 29, 2011

UPDATE Metacritic Introduces Game Developer Career Score


UPDATE: Metacritic has pulled all the game developers entry after it was pointed out to them that was not that comprehensive and accurate. They've released a statement on the site that they are still dedicated to creating a reliable credits database. It's unclear if the game designer score will ever return on the site. Well, I expected this.

Great! Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse or sillier, Metacritic has now introduced a new set of scores for game developers. The scores are tabulated based on the aggregate of review scores for all the games the developer has worked on. The flaw is that, the scores are based on all the games they GET their review scores from which is ONLY FROM GameFAQ. Some of my all time favourite game developer scores? Brian Reynolds(Rise of Nations and Civ 3) got a 79. Sid Meier got an 89. Will Wright got an 81 and Soren Johnson got an 82. Now game developers can look forward to their metacritic scores like how Malaysian parents boast about how many A’s their kids got at school. sigh… maybe Metacritic should work on scores for internet memes next.

Source: VG247

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