Could the same not be said for critic reviews? Do they even review a game below a 7/10 these days unless it’s like irredeemably bad? Review publishers don’t want to lose out on early copies and basically hand out 8’s and above like candy
There's a reason that they don't review many if any games under 5-6/10. Those games are simply not worth reviewing because there's too many better games to review. Why pay someone a salary to review a 3/10 game that no one has any interest in?
That's simply not true. It's not a five star system. Because a seven isn't the same as a two. And a six isn't a one. It's not a five star system. It's a ten star system but the lower scores are generally not used because they are for terrible games. But they do get used sometimes. Like Gollum and King Kong. It's just more rare. It's not because they don't reach the quality to be ranked. It's because, ones again, there's not much interest in terrible games. And you can't review every single game that gets released.
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u/AuthoritarianSex Nov 20 '23
Could the same not be said for critic reviews? Do they even review a game below a 7/10 these days unless it’s like irredeemably bad? Review publishers don’t want to lose out on early copies and basically hand out 8’s and above like candy