Where were you when metacritic deleted 2/3rds of the negative reviews for BotW?

Where were you when metacritic deleted 2/3rds of the negative reviews for BotW?

You better believe they kept /all/ the positive ones though.

About time they fought back against raging sony ponies

Well when 2/3rds of the negative reviews are from a Sup Forums raid I doubt they're reliable

>Metacritic

Who cares?

Gonna guess right away that you're one of those guys upset about the game being liked.

No, not even implying that "Muh company wars" is relevant, because that would only make you be more pathetic than what you already are.

>delete virtually all 0 reviews
>leave all the 10 reviews, even if the review explicitly says they gave it a 10 to counter the 0 reviews
>leave all this garbage here

Nintendofags on suicide watch

Have you ever actually looked at the negative reviews for some games? Very often they are one line "It's garbage" style reviews. I guarantee you those are the negative reviews that got pruned.

It happens to practically every fucking game dude.

a 0 review is never genuine

Have you looked at the positive reviews for some games? Very often they are one line "it's awesome" style reviews. I guarantee you those are made by legit human beings with valid opinions.

It happens to practically every fucking game dude.

They do the same thing with most games on Metacritic. Shit, I think HZD was cleaned up in less than a week after release.

The only 10s that should be deleted are the ones that say shit like that. So that means about 10 reviews probably should need to be deleted.

>prune the reviews
>only cut out the ones that say the game is bad

that's called fanboyism, not pruning.

Coincidentally it reinforces that Hitler did nothing wrong.

>it's okay to cut out people from society if they're just the shitty people

at least half the 10/10 reviews for BotW are empty retarded garbage. Go on, go look. The screenshot you responded to was a screenshot, not an edit. It was 5 back-to-back reviews in a row that were all retarded. I chose that date well before the recent prune just to make a point that their recent prune made no effort to actually do anything but remove criticism. There were probably more than 5 in that column alone, i just didn't bother to scroll more.

It's all garbage, friend.

>made no effort to actually do anything but remove criticism
And this is why I'm not taking your post seriously. You're pretending all the zeroes are actual criticism.

>people are still autistically watching the metacritic scores for a game a month and a half after release

You're pretending that all the 10's are actually legit.

Seriously you have brain damage.

The only thing Hitler did wrong was lose.

Some of you guys care way too much about how other people feel.

This should be permanently stickied on Sup Forums, this sentence alone.

Console wars are serious fucking business.

The only people who lose are the ones dumb enough to take the Metacritic scores seriously at all.

Blending a bunch of non-blendable scores together doesn't take you any closer to an estimation of the game's qualities, it's basically just hitting the 'randomize' button. When you combine dipshit opinions/scores with good ones, you get a random number, and even then most game reviewers can't even write a decent review.

It's also that some people have realized that their own thoughts have no integrity at all, so they instinctively derive a sense of their "worth" and "value" from outside estimations (other people's opinions, ideals, superstitions, etc).

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it deleted all the shitposting reviews IIRC

Good deal. Sony ponies BTFO.

not all of them.

>10/10
>awesome fghjkl,mnbvfrtyuikjbvftyuikmnbgtyu8iolkjnhgyu78ikjhgyuiolkjgyuiolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Zelda fans just can't win.

The game is objectively good.

10/10 is a believable score.
0/10 is not. There is no reason to give any game an absolute 0/10 unless its shovelware tier.

>implying BotW actually isn't shovelware tier

>implying 10/10 is believable when there is clearly self-evident negatives like frame stutter and polarizingly alien gameplay for the franchise.

Epic opinion. Hmm yes I like it, I want more of this opinion, tell us more. Elucidate my ah, how would you say it...My neuronic synapses.

bump

>Implying 10/10 means perfect
>Implyint perfect games exist

And yes its polarizing, but that means that a large amount of people see the series as having improved making them MORE likely to rate it high. For people that dont like the changes, it shouldnt be a literal 0. Thats saying its even worse than something like ET for Atari. Absolutely autistic.

>BOTW is shovelware
This part of the bait is too smelly and lost you your (You)

there's nothing wrong with this

>Perfect games don't exi-

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Actually playing the games I like and not giving a rat's ass about Metacritic.

there's nothing wrong with this

except for the fact the review actually applies to BotW.
>bad framerate
>doesn't meet the current technology
>console cost $300 and play at 30fps
>price should have been $300
>game was truly made bad
>68op????

When you delete a review with a score of 0 and a note that says "Fuck Nintendo", then nothing of value was lost.
But to play devil's advocate, shitposters in this thread are also right.
Reviews of 10 with pure fanboyism are also of litte "value"this is all subjective,nothing really matters except your own opinion..

This, just remove the option.

>this game is shit because of the hardware it's on and because it tries something new despite me bitching about it being a series of nothing but rehashes
Kill yourself

why doesn't metacritic delete all the butthurt russians from Company of Heroes 2?
Why does metacritc have no quality control for reviews?

I feel like that made sense in your head, else you wouldn't have chosen to post it.

it doesn't actually make sense though.

It applies sometimes, but very rarely.

I was gifted a GBA game called Chicken Shoot and it had less than 5 minutes of content. Its probably the only game Ive played (unless you can rate online flash games which I doubt) that I would honestly rate 0/10.

It's pretty lazy to just say "no u" without at least elaborating.

Good, there's no point in keeping reviews made just to give the game a 0/10, literally 99% of those reviews were from fresh accounts that had nothing but the single 0/10 BotW review.

Why the fuck are there so many of those damn games, they're so shit but they're fucking everywhere.

The user review score was actually fairly balanced out, if not having an excess of empty 10's.

The user score is now bloated because they deleted empty 0's but left empty 10's.

you're a queer bitch.

How many people gave it 10/10s solely because it was getting "raided"? Sup Forums is nintendogaf. Don't kid yourself.

Who owns/runs Metacritic?

Not that guy, but reading this conversation upset me, and is legit retarded.

The people saying the reviews being spammed with 10/10s is just as bad as 0/10s aren't entirely right.
Despite what your agenda is, you can't deny 10/10 is a way more realistic score for someone to genuinely give, 0/10 is ridiculous because you're saying the game is literally unplayable, it's possible for someone to believe the game is perfect believe it or not.

The problem with metacritic is that the user score tends to be manipulated by people who blast 10/10's and 0/0's.

FF13 had a 8.1 for a while before it went down to 7.5 for years. However, since people kept bashing it with 0/10 DESPITE that just being trolling, the reviews got skewed due to this.

However, other review sites have kept away from this 0/10 nonsense. Mind you, we need to fix the 10/10 nonsense as well, but the 0/10s are getting more like trolling.

somewhat this
a 0/10 is literally big rigs tier

it's possible for someone to believe the game is absolute garbage and the worst game they've ever played, believe it or not.

You're letting your nintendobias show.

Wouldn't it be great if all the console warriors would just meet up IRL and literally kill each other

5/10 or null is unplayable. 0/10 is playable but reserved for games that physically hurt you or make you want to physically hurt yourself for being silly enough for wasting time/money on it.

They should just disregard all 0s and 10s and not tell anyone they are doing that.

The 10s were only 2 points away from the score it deserves, whereas the 0s were 8 points away. Should've deleted the empty 10s as well but I'd say this is for the better.

I personally don't believe the game is perfect myself, I'd give it an 8/10, it still falls for the faults of most open world games but some people can see past that because it may be their first open world game or who knows what.
I can see someone thinking this game is perfect, it's rather bold but plausible.
Not denying there are people who gave the game a 10/10 out of fanboyism or anything.

>8.3

So still massively overrated by critics.
Also has Metacritic done this with other games? Because a lot of people do this shit to games besides Zelda.

the game honestly deserves a 3 but a 5 would suffice.

the 0's and 10's truly balanced out fairly well on it's own. someone at metacritic was just a raging edgelord autistic nintendo baby.

>for years Sup Forums accuses Microsoft and Sony of paying for reviews
>turns out it was Nintendo doing it all along

Satan is always the one you least expect.

Yes, they've done this many times before.

IT WASNT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN LIKE THIS

Anyone else remember than furry game from years ago that was like, kung fu fighting and melee weapons and a bunch of neat tech in their engine?

Basically it was just an engine with little gameplay or story elements in a giant environment?

That's what BotW reminds me of.

It's virtually not really a game. They made an engine and thought the physics and tech in it were amazing enough on their own to carry the entire experience, while everything else about the game is underdeveloped and lacking, if not outright missing or drastically worse in comparing elements to previous Zelda titles.

There's no polish to BotW at all. The game cold-boots straight to the main menu without an intro and starting a new file just shows the games title in white arial font against a black background.

And what the fuck was that ganon fight? Literally link's crossbow training: the boss.

They put barely any fuckin' effort into the game at all and it's cringeworthy that anyone would give it a 10 and call it a great game or the best game when it has all the presentation and charm of a fucking beta-test for a tech demo engine.

>The problem with metacritic is that the user score tends to be manipulated by people who blast 10/10's and 0/0's.
why do cry babies always use this as excuse?

just think of the score as Like&Dislikes.
If you have games below 5, u know it's shit.
if you have something between 5 to 8, u know it's fine.
if you have something above 8, u know it's worth to check it out.

You don't have to be autistic and go "Hurr Durr the game should be 7.8, not fucking 7.5, Durrr"

Nintendo only does this somewhat, they don't pay the reviewers they just pick and choose reviewers they trust.
With that, the people who scored Starfox Zero 5s and 6s are the same people that scored BotW 9s and 10s.

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But you didn't play it you fucking nerd

>game doesn't even have a consistent locked framerate
looks like they didn't even bother finishing the engine in the very least.

paid to remove

We already should have known that Nintendo's dirty business practices would force them to delete the reviews dragging down BotW.

Nintendo is such a shit company and I don't want to have anything to do with them.

It's hilarious how much the human garbage on this site want their alt right asshurt tumblrina downvote raids to go unnoticed, or, even worse, legitimized by thinking people.

that was pretty amazing

lmao whats with nintendo and TUMBLING

I still really enjoy the game but you make valid points. At the very least they could've added more story/missions and still maintained the nonlinear aspect to the game. Like in the Rito Village, all you do is arrive in town, shoot a few arrows, and you're already set to take on the divine beast. For each divine beast, there should've been at least 5-10 quests that need completed before fighting the boss.

Kind of like the same thing they did with Horizon a few days after it released?

Why then does every other game have to deal with all those "bullshit" negative user reviews but in this one case on metacritic nintendo gets a pass for BotW and meta purges the negative reviews? Even if they are bullshit every other game has to put up with it.

I'm guessing the bum reviews reached a threshold. They were either too many or too obvious and unsubtle, and given all the attention on this particular game, leaving them alone would have called the integrity of the site in question.

There wasn't any conspiracy on the part of the site owners.

in my opinion no game should have to deal with it, and metacritic should revamp user scores entirely. They're incredibly easy to abuse and are no indicator of a games actual quality.

Metacritic doesnt even need to exist. Its a fucking commercial ad honeypot, theres as many ads served to every page as shitty news blogs and porn sites.

Amazon has reviews too.

at least on amazon you have to buy the game to submit a review

Well 2/3rds of the negative reviews for the game were by buttblasted Sonydiots who got buttblasted by the fact that the critics gave it a better score than Horizon, and deliberately rated it as low as possible while also rating Horizon as high as possible to make it look like the critics were paid. Clearly these people also forgot that you can view a person's entire review history with just a simple click to prove that they're bullshitting.

I think you're on to something really big here. Keep doing the Lord's work.

I remember they did the same thing H:ZD. about 700-800 reviews were deleted

>be Nintendo
>be so desperate into tricking the vacantly unaware consumer into purchasing your poor product that you have to pay the admins of an Indian Microsoft Certified tech support webpage to delete negative reviews

dude metacritic has always been garbage for user scores, you don't have to be a fanboy to see this.

Well I consider myself one of BotW's harsher critics and even I agree a 7.6 is too low for this game.

>goes through multiple fairies during the fall

that was mesmerizing to watch really

>be Nintendo
>make game where you can kill and eat dogs and have to crossdress in womens lingerie as a hairless twink boy
>wonder why you even have to pay for 10's for this unironically great unpolished tech demo not featuring objectionable content

>first flagship Zelda game since China allowed foreign game sales
>features content that is unmistakingly chinese
What did you expect?

>Sony shills BTFO

Confirmed 10,000/10: Greatest game of all time.

Every game journo publication who's BotW reviewer gave a 10 should fire said reviewer.

Okay I dont like the Switch but this video is retarded. Maybe if you werent inbred you'd be able to stop the tablet from falling

Neogaf literally makes a thread for every sony games that loses .1 score as they try to rally and DDOS the reviewer

You can tell who made this thread

HZD lost more than that from the USgamer review and they didn't do anything.

What took them so long to purge the absolutely fucking transparent Sony shill reviews? You know, the ones that give the game a 0, don't post anything remotely constructive, and when you look at their review history, you'll notice they gave SJW Dawn and Uncharted perfect 10s.

I'd be okay with Metacritic also deleting the ones giving the game a perfect 10 without any reasoning, who also gave SJW Dawn and Uncharted zeroes with no feedback. I'm sure that number will be far, far lower because of how awful Sony fans are, but it'd be fair.

>literally visits neogaf

Gotta keep tabs on the enemy.

Except that doesn't happen.

Sup Forums is way more autistic about nintendo than gaf is about sony.

Can't tell if you're projecting or just glazing over how jim sterling got DDoS'd and spammed on twitter for giving BotW a 7/10

Either way you're being facetious.