Good point. This is for me as newsworthy as Harmonix employees posting positive comments on Amazon. Why isn’t the media covering this?

I’m confused. Why is this one marked “PRE-RELEASE” when it was posted the same day as the one above?

Some very nice hard-surface modeling, here.

Sure, but that’s exactly my point. If developers really hate those Metacritic requirement then it’s up to them to say “no, we don’t want that in the contract” and either negotiate for a different metric or simply turn down that language; developers, at the very least, don’t hate the Metacritic bonus enough to argue it.

Well, it’s basically the same as tip-based income in that regard. There’s nothing inherently wrong with tips themselves—people should be rewarded for working hard and putting up with difficult situations. The problem comes when the income from tips is the difference between a livable income and poverty.

Any halfway decent statistician could find a reasonable way to incorporate yes/not yet/no into a numerical aggregate.

So what you’d like is a binary aggregate instead of the a scalar? This is rottentomatoes. No matter what you do to represent the data, it will still be turned into numbers. You simply can’t stop this, you’re fighting a losing battle. The battle that should be fought is preventing these arbitrary numbers from being…

This system is what works bonuses for devs,

which is a giant problem. Fucking with something that’s broken isn’t a problem, the broken thing is a problem. That being said, I believe that’s the case with this, too.

I’ve been thinking it for a while. Kotaku makes this big deal out of how pointless a number-based rating system is and how superior their yes/no/not yet/maybe system is, but it creates the exact same problem. It lets the “reader” (or non-reader) see the rating, whether it be numbers or yes/no, and create a snap…

I believe they’re calculating an average based on the numbered scores, and our YES is included on the page but not in the average.

This so much. If you truly believe this Jason, get Kotaku to remove the yes/no binary score and force people to read Kotaku reviews. Otherwise I can only conclude that the hypocrisy is astounding.

You really have to wonder how something as simple as “yes” could ever be quantified statistically - Kotaku’s review of MGSV, for example, talked about how batshit nonsensical its story is. So equating “yes” with a 10/10 score would be totally inaccurate. You can recommend a game while still pointing out its flaws.

As flawed as the Steam Review process can be, at least that one fosters good explanations or discussion... or funny one-liners.

All they said was one game has $3k worth of DLC when it is on sale. Everything they said was true, the fact that most people only want one or two of the DLC is immaterial to the post. Your comment is trying harder to bait than the post is.

The south park snowball fighting game was great you fucktard

“The sustainability of the regime.”

They are not listening to your logic, they hear game is flawed you are wrong. You are making the point of game series has story and cannon, this game is missing a huge part of that and theretofore could’ve been more. They rage, the end.

Same. I’m too disgusted to touch it again.

Your satisfaction with its truncated state is irrelevant to me.