Metacritic Kills Individual Developer Ratings
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Metacritic has opted to pull its aggregate ratings for individual games developers following complaints that they didn't offer a sufficiently rounded overview of individuals' careers.
A news post on the site tells us that, "Over the last week or so, there has been an enthusiastic discussion in the gaming press and social media about how the Metacritic team collects and displays credits and scores for individual contributors to video games.
"...Although our credits database (which is powered by our sister site GameFAQs) is growing, as our users’ feedback has indicated, it is a work in progress and is not nearly as comprehensive as it needs to be to accurately provide a career score for these individuals. As such, we have removed that career score from the pages dedicated to creative individuals behind games on Metacritic. We are still very much committed to building a credits database, and welcome your participation in that process."
The ratings were launched late last week. There's no word on if or when we'll see them reinstated.
While it might not be too difficult to build a reasonable aggregate score for your Miyamotos or Cliff Bleszinskis, game credits for lesser-known developers are not quite so readily available. You might also question how fair it is to assign an entire game's rating to someone who designed textures for wheel trims. Give us your take in the comments below or on Twitter or Facebook.
A news post on the site tells us that, "Over the last week or so, there has been an enthusiastic discussion in the gaming press and social media about how the Metacritic team collects and displays credits and scores for individual contributors to video games.
"...Although our credits database (which is powered by our sister site GameFAQs) is growing, as our users’ feedback has indicated, it is a work in progress and is not nearly as comprehensive as it needs to be to accurately provide a career score for these individuals. As such, we have removed that career score from the pages dedicated to creative individuals behind games on Metacritic. We are still very much committed to building a credits database, and welcome your participation in that process."
The ratings were launched late last week. There's no word on if or when we'll see them reinstated.
While it might not be too difficult to build a reasonable aggregate score for your Miyamotos or Cliff Bleszinskis, game credits for lesser-known developers are not quite so readily available. You might also question how fair it is to assign an entire game's rating to someone who designed textures for wheel trims. Give us your take in the comments below or on Twitter or Facebook.
Comments
realvictory 29 Mar 2011 21:36
1/1
What if a game had good art but crap level design? A designer and an artist would both be rated the same.
...It's similarly dubious to awarding a game a "rating" based on its total scores, especially when different people review games differently (i.e. some rate with a letter, ome out of 5, some out of 100...).
...It's similarly dubious to award a game a single number, trying to take into account all its good/bad aspects. If a game has the best graphics you've ever seen, but lasts 5 minutes and costs £100, would you give it a high score, a medium score, or a low score?
...It's similarly dubious to awarding a game a "rating" based on its total scores, especially when different people review games differently (i.e. some rate with a letter, ome out of 5, some out of 100...).
...It's similarly dubious to award a game a single number, trying to take into account all its good/bad aspects. If a game has the best graphics you've ever seen, but lasts 5 minutes and costs £100, would you give it a high score, a medium score, or a low score?