Is Starfield Being Review Bombed? Plus It Reaches 6 MILLION Players!
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Starfield's user reviews are rolling in from Metacritic and they aren't that great. However, they don't seem to be aligning with the user reviews from Steam...

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.

  • Astroturfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    80·
    1 year ago

    People like to claim any big ticket game that doesn’t get like 8/10 or higher is being review bombed. Seems as if people have legit criticisms of the game and it’s pretty fairly reviewed.

      • ObiWanGurobi@feddit.deEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • ObiWanGurobi@feddit.deEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            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.