Comments on: Metacritic faces credibility blow as thousands rig user scores (update)

By: Syrok

Syrok — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:38:42 +0000

Okay… I bet no one expected that difference in opinion.

By: morriss

morriss — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:00:45 +0000

Syrok: a difference of opinion.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:10:18 +0000

My finger are achign from voting so many times on the games. Glad it was newsworthy!

By: Syrok

Syrok — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:58:21 +0000

What makes this news then?

By: morriss

morriss — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:48:54 +0000

I ignored the LBP thing. so it was partly my responsibility. I looked at it and just shook my head and moved on.

“Non-news” I thought. Oh well.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:41:14 +0000

Implant kill switches in all of humanity. Then have them DNA logged on all their activities. One misstep and KABLAM!,blow their heads off.

By: AlbenoEpiX

AlbenoEpiX — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:26:03 +0000

Disable user-voting until the game’s official release date. This may dilute the problem slightly, as the votes of the spoil sports will be somewhat offset by genuine user votes.

By: David

David — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:16:12 +0000

This is just another case of fanboys attacking games that aren’t on their console. Pretty sad but its what happens on the internets.

If you go to a few PS3 and 360 game videos over on gametrailers you will find the same childish behaviour.

I don’t know why people have this tribal attitude to consoles. I’m not made of money but if I could I would own everything and play as many game across all platforms as I could. This is stupid behaviour in the end and it just shows how pathetic we can be.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:30:37 +0000

TINFOIL PAT
TINFOIL PAT
TINFOIL PAT

By: patlike

patlike — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:23:45 +0000

I only dismiss and deride your “feedback,” to be honest

I honestly didn’t know about the LBP thing. The Resistance 2 and Gears 2 scores were flagged up on other sites this morning, which is why I noticed it. I’ll add an update.

By: Shatner

Shatner — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:40:50 +0000

Why not update both, for the sake of consistency though?

If, as your actions suggest, the two are related then why make the relationship one-way?

No need for a tin-foil hat pat. I’m just showing you how things look to the reader. I am well aware of the differences between that between what the content creator sees and how it gets seen by the punter. Dismissing (and deriding) the feedback of your readership isn’t a very constructive attitude. It draws parallels with Big Stu’s observations of people dismissing the opinions of their audience.

Still doesn’t really explain how you managed to overlook the LBP part of metacritic which has been regarded elsewhere as the catalyst for this amazingly childish behaviour. Did you investigate it and choose not to mention it or did you simply not know about it?

By: patlike

patlike — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:27:18 +0000

Shatner: I updated the Resistance story because it was the one linked from the top bar. You really should put the tinfoil hat away.

By: Shatner

Shatner — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:09:22 +0000

What if that opionion was expressed in death threats, name calling and a clear disregard for factual information over bias and assumption (with a bit of immaturity and greed thrown in for good measure)?

You think that should be be given BIG INTERNET RESPECT?

Hmm.

Some people that the internet WAY too seriously.

By: Big Stu

Big Stu — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:51:07 +0000

I’ve seen it. And personally, i think it’s pretty fucking horrific how a developer behind the game should think so little of someone’s opinion.

By: Shatner

Shatner — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:28:08 +0000

You want to see people taking things too seriously? Go to the Lionhead forums and check out the rage over Fable 2 co-op.

By: Big Stu

Big Stu — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:16:22 +0000

Wow.

Some people take the internet WAY too seriously.

It was a joke.

By: Shatner

Shatner — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:07:53 +0000

Big Stu,

LBP (still unreleased) has had MORE user reviews submitted than Halo 3 has in its entire lifetime – and it’s dragged down to a 6.something average.

It’s tat-for-tat on a pretty equal basis. But it’s very easy to read reports and get the impression that one set of idiots is more idiotic than another set of idiots.

Another piece of selective reporting behaviour:

It’s interesting to see how, after making an article dedicated to a review score of a big PlayStation game the same article gets breathlessly updated to reassure Xbox owners that, yes, one of their big games also got 9/10. If you check the (linked to) Xbox game article, you’ll find that no such ‘update’ has been made (or mention) in respect of the PlayStation game.

Consistencyfail

By: Big Stu

Big Stu — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:47:02 +0000

Or that the 360 fanboys are more generous! haha

By: Big Stu

Big Stu — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:46:05 +0000

2.6 v 5.3?

The moral of this story? The PS3 has far more rabid fanboys!

By: Tonka

Tonka — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:19:52 +0000

Anotheronebitesthedust

By: patlike

patlike — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:16:53 +0000

I think you’d be surprised, G1.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:06:52 +0000

Surely no-one takes the user scores seriously anyway?

I certainly never have.

By: Syrok

Syrok — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:03:24 +0000

Why not disable the user voting until two weeks after the release? Fanboys will have forgotten all about the game by then. (Maybe)