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OpenCritic, take my fucking sword.
Is OpenCritic taken seriously by the industry at all?
Pandering to to more hyperbolic members of the fandom in another attempt to not be know as that other site that's not metacritic.
...why would someone argue against having more information aggregated onto one site? Seriously?
Is OpenCritic taken seriously by the industry at all?
This is one of the ways for them to differentiate and get more gamers to look at Opencritic over Metacritic. If gamers start putting more trust on Opencritics score than Metacritic score because of things like this than industry will have to take them more seriously. At the end of the day as much as it will helps the consumers, it might also help their business. Good things all around.Is OpenCritic taken seriously by the industry at all?
Maybe they could consider testing automatically decreasing the score a certain percentage for each game based of whether it has, loot boxes, microtransactions ,and combinations each mechanic?
This is one of the ways for them to differentiate and get more gamers to look at Opencritic over Metacritic. If gamers start putting more trust on Opencritics score than Metacritic score because of things like this than industry will have to take them more seriously. At the end of the day as much as it will helps the consumers, it might also help their business. Good things all around.
List "how long to beat" hours and hours/price values. Then add information about locked pre order content and dont forget to mention DRM and if the game has always online requirement...
There are pretty obvious reasons why this is a complete non starter, the main one being they'd be altering the review scores of a review someone else did.
Sooo... Why?
I mean okay, do whatever you want with your website, but it feels like it's creators decided that Forza's and Middle-earth's scores are too high so they try to prevent people from buying these games.
If someone uses Opencritic instead of Metacritic, he's definitely not an average consumer. He already knows about this stuff, lootboxes etc.
Depends on that implementation of course, but letting consumers have that sort of information definitely seems useful.
Sooo... Why?
I mean okay, do whatever you want with your website, but it feels like it's creators decided that Forza's and Middle-earth's scores are too high so they try to prevent people from buying these games.
If someone uses Opencritic instead of Metacritic, he's definitely not an average consumer. He already knows about this stuff, lootboxes etc.
Is OpenCritic taken seriously by the industry at all?
Seems way outside of their wheelhouse and kind of goes against the notion of them being merely a neutral aggregator.
Too bad reviewers can't be bothered to do their jobs.
No offense friend, but why would you complain that a review aggregator is willing to provide important information about a game that the publisher would often omit? I mean, it's a plus, review aggregators usually don't have that kind of info, i get it, but i can't see the problem if they want to feed the users with more information.
Exactly, what a nonsense way of them phrasing it to clearly take advantage of the hyperbole going aroundYea. Information is fine. But taking a stand "against" it? I'm not sure.
No offense friend, but why would you complain that a review aggregator is willing to provide important information about a game that the publisher would often omit? I mean, it's a plus, review aggregators usually don't have that kind of info, i get it, but i can't see the problem if they want to feed the users with more information.
.Then don't call it a "review aggregator". Post info about lenght, engine, price etc. Why just lootboxes?
No offense friend, but why would you complain that a review aggregator is willing to provide important information about a game that the publisher would often omit? I mean, it's a plus, review aggregators usually don't have that kind of info, i get it, but i can't see the problem if they want to feed the users with more information.
Exactly, what a nonsense way of them phrasing it to clearly take advantage of the hyperbole going around
Seems way outside of their wheelhouse and kind of goes against the notion of them being merely a neutral aggregator.
Any game with paid gambling mechanics should slapped with an 18 certificate/AO rating. Then we'll see how long publishers keep pushing this bullshit on us.
nice to see some big player in industry take on into this ongoing issue. can't wait to see how it go.