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Amazing confusion over new 1UP letter-based scoring system

US site 1UP has now switched over to a letter-based review system, a change that's led to some fairly spectacular confusion this morning.

Ed boss Dan Hsu said there wouldn't be a score-to-letter conversion chart published "because we want our readers to go with our new scoring system and not be constantly translating the new letters back to our old scores." Sensible.

Joystiq decided to do one anyway and all hell's broken loose, with 1UP VP Simon Cox getting involved. Check out the comments at the bottom of the story.

Just score out of 10, review sites. Then you don't have to fight teh internets.

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Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.

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