Analyst: Reviews are the “least important factor” to gamers

that doesn’t sound right.

While good scores don’t make me buy games I am not interested in to begin with, neither does marketing fwiw, bad scores will make and have made me reconsider my purchases.

I purchase entirely on score. I’d buy a game with a score of 85% upwards, anything less I leave well alone. Regarding word of mouth, I heard and read from numerous sources that Haze is “an absolute pile of shite of a game”

Most of the people here probably puts a lot of weight in scores, but they don’t. You know, they.

“We believe that publishers are better served by spending their time on the development process than grade grubbing after the fact”.

Well “Duh”.

They defo effect my purchase. But…if its a super hyped game, I won’t give a rats ass what the reviewers say.

If a game gets a good review from a site i respect (AKA Giantbomb.com) i’m much more likely to buy it.

Hype makes people buy games.

Yup you’re right there. Made me buy MW2 after I’d vowed to get it secondhand. I’ll now be putting it on the secondhand market so at least someone will not be adding to Kotick’s coffers.

I think the least important factor is analysts.

Lol, i agree with ‘The man they call Jayne’.
As for review scores, i’d have to say i’m definitely influenced by them. However, I would say that i’m more influenced by what the review actually says about certain aspects of the game rather than the overall score.

Word of mouth among my friendly forumite chums is far, far more important to me than any review score. I do like to read the reviews, though.

I’d say the ‘opinion’ of analysts is the least important factor in what gamers think.