EA Developer caught boosting DA2 score again on Metacritic?

[Acewings]

So I decided to browse and check and see what the metacritic reviews were and I came across a user who had given King Arthur a 0, and then gave Dragon Age 2 a 10. My mind IMMEDIATELY went back to the Witcher 2 incident where an EA/Bioware employee did the same thing.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=424430



Anyways, the Metacritic user is:

http://www.metacritic.com/user/chartinboy


Just read the review. Is it the same guy, do you guys think? Seriously, this guy is low and pathetic...

Discuss.

[Acewings]

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dragon-age-ii/user-reviews?sort-by=score&num_items=100

Let me guess: All those 10's are the very same guy?

[Grunt7684]

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dragon-age-ii/user-reviews?sort-by=score&num_items=100

Let me guess: All those 10's are the very same guy?

What's interesting is that most of those 10's are from people who have only one review. DA2. Nothing else. It almost looks like they made an account just to rate DA2 a 10 and nothing else, which would be exactly the case if their employer had them doing that.

Which is kinda suspicious, don't you think? And makes these 10's something to take with a grain of salt. I mean if someone has rated 12 games by various developers, that's obviously a user who rates games, but someone who makes an account just to give one game a 10? Especially given that, in the reviewer's words " There are certianly issues..." LOL! Since when is a product with issues a 10/10? Obvious shilling indeed. What's a 10? Ground-breaking and flawless, AT THE VERY LEAST. Is there anyone with a modicum of common sense whose honest review is that DA2 is flawless and ground-breaking?

Yep, it all looks fishy to me.

[Acewings]

What's interesting is that most of those 10's are from people who have only one review. DA2. Nothing else. It almost looks like they made an account just to rate DA2 a 10 and nothing else, which would be exactly the case if their employer had them doing that.

Which is kinda suspicious, don't you think? And makes these 10's something to take with a grain of salt. I mean if someone has rated 12 games by various developers, that's obviously a user who rates games, but someone who makes an account just to give one game a 10? Especially given that, in the reviewer's words " There are certianly issues..." LOL! Since when is a product with issues a 10/10? Obvious shilling indeed. What's a 10? Ground-breaking and flawless, AT THE VERY LEAST. Is there anyone with a modicum of common sense whose honest review is that DA2 is flawless and ground-breaking?

Yep, it all looks fishy to me.


Ya...that's what I noticed also. That's why I think their employer is endorsing them doing this. It's pretty low, despicable, and pathetic...

[Grunt7684]

Ya...that's what I noticed also. That's why I think their employer is endorsing them doing this. It's pretty low, despicable, and pathetic...

I am sure they have job titles like "Marketing assistant" and all they do is spam EA titles user reviews all day...

[eightohfive]

You people are really pathetic lol, hey I bet you guys believe that the world will end in 2012 to! All aboard the crazy train! Also do you guys realize the entirely insignificant impact that two ratings out of several thousands would have on DA2 or any other games score, I mean don't you think if EA wanted to change the metacritic scores of their games they would use more than two? (or just simply bride the metacritic owners, its not like their some high level government agency its just a freaking website for rating video games)

[Grunt7684]

You people are really pathetic lol, hey I bet you guys believe that the world will end in 2012 to! All aboard the crazy train! Also do you guys realize the entirely insignificant impact that two ratings out of several thousands would have on DA2 or any other games score, I mean don't you think if EA wanted to change the metacritic scores of their games they would use more than two? (or just simply bride the metacritic owners, its not like their some high level government agency its just a freaking website for rating video games)

And do you think we spent weeks looking through ALL the ratings? That your post assumes we did is a sure sign of dimwittedness.

[Dazzled]

You people are really pathetic lol, hey I bet you guys believe that the world will end in 2012 to! All aboard the crazy train! Also do you guys realize the entirely insignificant impact that two ratings out of several thousands would have on DA2 or any other games score, I mean don't you think if EA wanted to change the metacritic scores of their games they would use more than two? (or just simply bride the metacritic owners, its not like their some high level government agency its just a freaking website for rating video games)

The fact that DA2 got 82/100 is clear evidence that EA did bribe reviewers. It deserved at most 65/100.

[Acewings]

The fact that DA2 got 82/100 is clear evidence that EA did bribe reviewers. It deserved at most 65/100.

This.

[MRLebanon]

EA is the Zionist regime of video game devs

[YahooElite]

KA is essentially like ETW and NTW but with a little less graphics and the addition of magic/magical creatures and random quests.

KA atleast deserves a 7 or an 8.

[Acewings]

My biggest problem with this is the fact that they downrated another game while simultaneously boosting their own. In my eyes, they are trying to ruin the sales of another game to boost their own, and that's really not fair. I suppose we can't trust metacritic now due to some jackass named Chris Hogan.

[Grunt7684]

My biggest problem with this is the fact that they downrated another game while simultaneously boosting their own. In my eyes, they are trying to ruin the sales of another game to boost their own, and that's really not fair. I suppose we can't trust metacritic now due to some jackass named Chris Hogan.

Well the practice might be common among big-name developers, which would balance itself out in those cases, but yeah, smaller developers may well get hit by that stuff. On top of that the smaller ones are definitely not on the reviewers "love" (ahem, I mean prostitution) list so they get hit on the critic scores too.

[Acewings]

Ooh hey, I found this thread again! :D

/necros it