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Meta critic7/10/2023 Some game reviewers take issue with the way Metacritic assigns scores. In 2008, Microsoft began using Metacritic averages to de-list underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games. began "including 'quality metrics' in contracts with partners licensing its movies for games": if a product does not at least achieve a specific score, some deals require the publisher to pay higher royalties. In 2004, Jason Hall and Marcus Johnson of Warner Bros. He claimed that an increasing number of businesses and financial analysts use Metacritic as "an early indicator of a game's potential sales and, by extension, the publisher's stock price". In an interview with The Guardian, Marc Doyle cited "two major publishers" that "conducted comprehensive statistical surveys through which they've been able to draw a correlation between high metascores and stronger sales" in certain genres. Wingfield wrote that Wall Street pays attention to Metacritic and GameRankings because the sites typically post scores before sales data are publicly available, citing the respective rapid rise and fall in company values after BioShock and Spider-Man 3 were released. Many executives say that low scores "can hurt the long-term sales potential". He explains its influence as coming from the higher cost of buying video games than music or movie tickets. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal has written that Metacritic "influence the sales of games and the stocks of video game publishers". Metacritic is regarded as the foremost online review aggregation site for the video game industry. The rating scale of metascores is: Indication Doyle said that because video games lead to a greater investment of time and money, gamers are more informed about reviews than are fans of film or music they want to know "whether that hotly anticipated title is going to deliver". Stuart wrote: "The metascore phenomenon, namely Metacritic and GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games journalism over the past few years". Games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith Stuart of The Guardian to "get a look behind the metascoring process". Certain publications are given more significance "because of their stature". In August 2010, the website's appearance was revamped reaction from users was overwhelmingly negative. He added that the review process is not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provide reviews in isolation. "By giving consumers, and web users specifically, early information on the objective quality of a game, not only are they more educated about their choices, but it forces publishers to demand more from their developers, license owners to demand more from their licensees, and eventually, hopefully, the games get better". ![]() ![]() Speaking of video games, he said: "A site like ours helps people cut through.unobjective promotional language". ![]() Doyle, 36, is now a senior product manager at CNET but he also acts as games editor of Metacritic". ![]() CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation. Rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. Metacritic was launched in January 2001 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, and a classmate from the University of Southern California law school, Jason Dietz, after two years of developing the site.
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