Metacritic Time to Update: Journalistic Integrity Edition
A couple weeks ago I wrote about latent and patent factors influencing Metacritic scores, but there is more to say. I admit I am harping on Metacritic, but as Steven Totilo pointed out unfortunately, our industry has decided to be the first industry in the history of entertainment to focus on critical praise over dollars. A developer's compensation and next job will be based on Metacritic scores. If the movie business worked this way, there would be no career for those involved in the Sex and the City film, which scored a 52, and Adam Sandler would never have made another film after the revenue spewing behemoth "The Waterboy," which scored a 41. Forget about how silly our reliance sounds, forget about revenue, forget about how biased the reviewers are and forget the reviewers play more games in a week than most people play in a console cycle, give Metacritic and its subjective mystery system more power. I did write about a number of factors which could be biasing th...