Seems kind of like the game is just suffering from reactionaries, but I definitely don’t put that much stock in critic reviews these days either.

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      Metacritic’s user rating system is just shit. You see the game rated higher than deserved and you can either

      • give it an honest rating resulting in the total score dropping by 0.01
      • give it a zero rating and have the score drop by 0.1

      Of course most people chose to rate it in a way that has more impact on the total score, so it’s no wonder we see 0/10 and 10/10 more than anything else.

      This phenomenon will be even more exaggerated if critics ratings are undeservedly high, as is the case with Starfield.

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          The reason it’s lower on metacritic is mainly due to the fact that the critics rating is too high, imo. This leads to disappointed players leaving extra bad scores (i.e. 0/10) to offset the total score. In a way that’s review bombing, but only as a reaction to the inflated critics’ reviews (which I often suspect to be bought or bribed).

          Usually the Steam reviews are a lot more reliable. As I said, metacritic’s system is shit and encourages rating manipulation.

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              Because my initial comment was about metacritic and my argument is that metacritic is a bad indicator of review bombing because it actually encourages it