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Good Job Bioware, you reviewed your own game on metacritic and gave it a 10
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Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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To you: Read the thread.aerts1js said:
This was posted on Reddit 20 hours ago. OP is just supplying what he thought was GAF worthy.
Cornbread78
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Funny stuff FishSquared, I think CSI Miami and JAG are looking for guys like you, LOL.
$50K can buy you a nice score, I'm guessing,LOL
Zeal said:
$50K can buy you a nice score, I'm guessing,LOL
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Detective-GAF is going stir-crazy without a new case to crack... we need another JBaird.
Never got the memo saying that an employee promoting their game is questionable or shameful; especially on a user review. Google any business and you'll find similar results. The consumer is the one to decide on the quality of a product using aggregates or on their own. Also, he's just a man, why would you imply criticism of Bioware without proof that their management were the ones who commissioned this man's review on Metacritic?
Using that logic then you can pick on everyone who reviews anything while they are employed by any company.
Using that logic then you can pick on everyone who reviews anything while they are employed by any company.
PetriP-TNT
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A guess a guy can be proud of his own work. No-one cares about user reviews anyway 
Just another piece of the giant PR disaster that Dragon Age 2 has become.
Note that I'm not talking about the game's quality here. Just the way it's been presented to the public in interviews and the like. From "SUPER HOT graphics" to "Push a button and something awesome happens!" to the whole debacle over auto-attack on the consoles, it's been a mess.
Even those who unabashedly love the game have to admit that it's about this close to becoming a textbook case of "How to Not Market Your Game."
Note that I'm not talking about the game's quality here. Just the way it's been presented to the public in interviews and the like. From "SUPER HOT graphics" to "Push a button and something awesome happens!" to the whole debacle over auto-attack on the consoles, it's been a mess.
Even those who unabashedly love the game have to admit that it's about this close to becoming a textbook case of "How to Not Market Your Game."
1) Go to LinkedIn, find an employee of a hated developer.
2) Goolge search his/her name to find an alias.
3) Use alias to post extremely favorable review.
4) Take screen shot of review as well as page where alias was found and LinkedIn profile
5) Post on reddit
6) ???
7) Profit!
My point is not only can you not draw the conclusion that bioware is behind this, you can't even conclude that this was the employee in question. Settle down people.
2) Goolge search his/her name to find an alias.
3) Use alias to post extremely favorable review.
4) Take screen shot of review as well as page where alias was found and LinkedIn profile
5) Post on reddit
6) ???
7) Profit!
My point is not only can you not draw the conclusion that bioware is behind this, you can't even conclude that this was the employee in question. Settle down people.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
ataboada said:
Except for the line about how anything negative said about the game is the work of haters, I'd agree.
Let's assume the best. That he was just a hard working dude who spent a couple years on the project and is simply upset at the negative reviews the game has gotten. Okay, well, why not post that? Because he's trying to be dishonest, plain and simple. Not really world shaking news there, but it's at least of note.
VGChampion
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I hate these big summary pictures that have become popular in the last year or so. Right it out like a normal human being.
It's probably him but you know what? I could probably find a developer at a game site, create a username on metacritic that he uses and do the same thing.
Edit: And now that I've posted, I see others have the same thought. Thank god not everyone is clueless.
It's probably him but you know what? I could probably find a developer at a game site, create a username on metacritic that he uses and do the same thing.
Edit: And now that I've posted, I see others have the same thought. Thank god not everyone is clueless.
bigdaddygamebot
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kswiston said:
Coming from an industry where you live and die by the opinions of the clients/customers/SquallFan43s...it's just a matter of time until they bonuses stop being tied to the scores offered by professional reviewers and actually hinge on the reviews made by the fans, customers, etc.
Reviewers have less and less influence these days. If a company really wants to make their customers happy, they really do need to start paying attention to the people that are passionate enough to take the time to score the games in question.
Great games WILL get great scores.
Adam Prime
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This is wrong, I'll tell you why:
The guy is misrepresenting himself to mislead readers. I realize that a User Review is to post user opinions, but this guy posted this review - gave it the highest score and made it seem like he was just "another gamer" like everyone else posting user reviewers. In the first few lines of the review he discredits other people's opinions as well. He's obviously trying to deflect the negative reviews on that site by masquerading as someone else. If he has given full disclosure on who he was and why he thought other reviewers were 'inaccurate' that would be one thing.
Given this in any other business would be a lack of professionalism. And that's exactly what this is. This guy didn't break the law and shouldn't be punished, but he displayed a lack of PROFESSIONALISM, something the game industry needs. Posting 10 User Reviews for your own game makes the games business seem like it is ran by fan boy children.
If the guy wants to defend the game from poor reviews, post a blog or something. Hiding who you are to restore "reputation" is just skeevy, and in this case it completely backfired.
The guy is misrepresenting himself to mislead readers. I realize that a User Review is to post user opinions, but this guy posted this review - gave it the highest score and made it seem like he was just "another gamer" like everyone else posting user reviewers. In the first few lines of the review he discredits other people's opinions as well. He's obviously trying to deflect the negative reviews on that site by masquerading as someone else. If he has given full disclosure on who he was and why he thought other reviewers were 'inaccurate' that would be one thing.
Given this in any other business would be a lack of professionalism. And that's exactly what this is. This guy didn't break the law and shouldn't be punished, but he displayed a lack of PROFESSIONALISM, something the game industry needs. Posting 10 User Reviews for your own game makes the games business seem like it is ran by fan boy children.
If the guy wants to defend the game from poor reviews, post a blog or something. Hiding who you are to restore "reputation" is just skeevy, and in this case it completely backfired.
bigdaddygamebot
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Sealda said:What are you guys talking about? Avanost is a highly respected polish video game magazine!
So...is Chris Hoban clever enough to try to hide the fact that he works for Bioware and make his username the title of a fairl unknown gaming magazine?
iam220 said:
If anyone thinks that the company is behind it, they're idiots obviously. With the research he's done however, I don't find it hard to believe an employee posted it. The guy either did it as a response to all the hate or as an inside joke. In either case, it's not a big deal.
Infallible
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what do you expect them to say about their own game? Does anyone honestly believe any game company(or any company selling a product) doesn't do this
EternalGamer
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This whole thing is blown out of proportion in a ridiculous way:
1) It is a user review. There are hundreds if not thousands of them. They are unregulated and it is not going to move the score hardly at all. It is not a professional review. It is meant to allow anyone from the dev. to the hater who didn't like the commercial to come and spiel whatever crap they want.
2) User reviews don't matter in terms of influence or sales. Here are some examples:
Modern Warfare 2 on the PC has a user score of 3.7
Call of Duty Black Ops on the PS3 has a 5.7
Blue Dragon has a 7.9
Enslaved has an 8.1
Now, I agree with some of those and disagree with others. But the point is that user reviews have no correlation to sales or influence. Everybody knows the are totally lacking in qualification.
If you don't get upset by all the idiots giving the game a 0 or a 1, many of which are just backlashing against the game and it is obvious they haven't even played it much from what they say, then I don't know why you would be upset about this guy giving it a 10.
1) It is a user review. There are hundreds if not thousands of them. They are unregulated and it is not going to move the score hardly at all. It is not a professional review. It is meant to allow anyone from the dev. to the hater who didn't like the commercial to come and spiel whatever crap they want.
2) User reviews don't matter in terms of influence or sales. Here are some examples:
Modern Warfare 2 on the PC has a user score of 3.7
Call of Duty Black Ops on the PS3 has a 5.7
Blue Dragon has a 7.9
Enslaved has an 8.1
Now, I agree with some of those and disagree with others. But the point is that user reviews have no correlation to sales or influence. Everybody knows the are totally lacking in qualification.
If you don't get upset by all the idiots giving the game a 0 or a 1, many of which are just backlashing against the game and it is obvious they haven't even played it much from what they say, then I don't know why you would be upset about this guy giving it a 10.
Gaz Pwnage
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oh deary me, tut tut
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of course i can draw that conclusion. i can't say it for a fact, but i can believe that it is probable enough to safely presume this poster to be the same guy who works at Bioware.iam220 said:
like i say taking into consideration the content of that review, it seems highly unlikely for this to be a coincidence.
not impossible or improbable, but drawing the conclusion that it IS the bioware staffer isn't in any way shape or form illogical.
EternalGamer said:
I have to agree. I'm not even sure why anyone would feel BioWare needs to issue an apology. Ethics and integrity? Tell that to the people who poorly rate games on Amazon without playing them solely because they have DRM in them. When someone sees that 10 from the BioWare, guess what? They're undoubtedly going to see a 1 from someone who absolutely loathes the game. Who do I trust? You quickly learn that you shouldn't hold user reviews from sites like Metacritic in such high regard, no matter who it came from.
witchedwiz
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uhm this pisses me off, but i'll at least credit them that the game is not pure shit, it's decent, but really it's FAR, FAR, FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR away from a 10 :X
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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I see you are me 10 minutes in the past. If so, you got 7.32/10 in Gas Dynamics midterm.Cruceh said:
Neuromancer
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Amazing isn't it.DaBuddaDa said:
Houston3000
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This thread pushed me to do a Google search of my username
It's crazy how many old forum posts pop up. Apparently some Socially Awkward Penguin image gallery I made in Photobucket has quite a few thousand views now for some reason to. Couldn't find my name anywhere though.
It's crazy how many old forum posts pop up. Apparently some Socially Awkward Penguin image gallery I made in Photobucket has quite a few thousand views now for some reason to. Couldn't find my name anywhere though.
The Lamonster
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What bugs me the most is the actual review. DAII is really not that good and definitely not a 10/10. :lol