Metacritic recently pulled its aggregate ratings for individual games developers from public view, casting doubt over whether anyone would ever see them again. Today, the website has confirmed that the career score system will be gone for good.
"We have no plans to bring it back. Right now we just want to see if we can build the database, take a shot at it, see what we can do," co-founder Marc Doyle told GI. He noted that a key reason for the chop was poorly detailed credits - no doubt determining how a particular role in a game should weight the final score was also a concern.
"If [a developer has] worked on 30 games and we can only show four and then we take on this score, which is really just an average of those games in our database for them, then that's not fair," Doyle added.
"We discussed it as a team and it made sense to just drop that overall number whilst still trying to build this database which will be difficult, but we're going to give it a shot. It's needless to put that number on it though."
We'll be honest, it was pretty funny seeing Shigeru Miyamoto only get a career score of 80 compared to his peers. While it lasted, at least.
"We have no plans to bring it back. Right now we just want to see if we can build the database, take a shot at it, see what we can do," co-founder Marc Doyle told GI. He noted that a key reason for the chop was poorly detailed credits - no doubt determining how a particular role in a game should weight the final score was also a concern.
"If [a developer has] worked on 30 games and we can only show four and then we take on this score, which is really just an average of those games in our database for them, then that's not fair," Doyle added.
"We discussed it as a team and it made sense to just drop that overall number whilst still trying to build this database which will be difficult, but we're going to give it a shot. It's needless to put that number on it though."
We'll be honest, it was pretty funny seeing Shigeru Miyamoto only get a career score of 80 compared to his peers. While it lasted, at least.