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Metacritic: There's corruption in gaming journalism
Metacritic co-founder Marc Doyle has confirmed that in the past the site has delisted a gaming publication from its review ratings due to corrupt practices.
He also said that there's several things the site evaluates to have a site's reviews listed:
One of the things Metacritic also requests when you want to be added, is a link back to them. One of the reasons why Fragland isn't listed (just so you know, we've never been on there nor have we been banned for any reason ;p)
"Yes. On one occasion I did discontinue my coverage of a publication's reviews because of what I considered to be corrupt practices."
"There are many reasons why I would drop somebody [from games review listings]. There's corruption - people can be bought, absolutely."
He didn't want to get into detail and spill which publication he referred to."There are many reasons why I would drop somebody [from games review listings]. There's corruption - people can be bought, absolutely."
He also said that there's several things the site evaluates to have a site's reviews listed:
"It [comes down] to a number of things: It's the quality of the analysis, the quality of the writing; do they have an audience; are they respected in the gaming community... is there a reputation for scoring integrity?
"[That means] are they going to give [a game] 4/5 and say it's one of the best of the year, and then give another game 4/5 and say it's really a letdown. I've got to see that they're being responsible internally with that scoring. If they're not - if they're being irresponsible, or being contrarian or ridiculous, which happens all the time - I won't pick them up."
Also several sites have been delisted for doing some silly stuff or because they themselves aren't interested in being on Metacritic:"[That means] are they going to give [a game] 4/5 and say it's one of the best of the year, and then give another game 4/5 and say it's really a letdown. I've got to see that they're being responsible internally with that scoring. If they're not - if they're being irresponsible, or being contrarian or ridiculous, which happens all the time - I won't pick them up."
"People have screwed around and just tried to dig for hits for various reasons, and so we've lost a lot of sites for ridiculous reasons," he said. "But I mean, the stuff's not highly publicised. It's stuff I see, then I talk to them [and say]: 'Guys, you're going down a bad path here.' We're going to rethink our partnership.'
"And then there are some big [sites] who didn't necessarily want to be on Metacritic, or they're doing some things that I think make them not such a great fit for our system."
One of the sites Metacritic hasn't managed to get an agreement with is for instance G4TV who apparently objected to having their rating converted into a 100% scale."And then there are some big [sites] who didn't necessarily want to be on Metacritic, or they're doing some things that I think make them not such a great fit for our system."
One of the things Metacritic also requests when you want to be added, is a link back to them. One of the reasons why Fragland isn't listed (just so you know, we've never been on there nor have we been banned for any reason ;p)
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