Metacritic Developer Rating Scores a 0, Promptly Removed

Oh Metacritic, you indecisive beast you. First you want to assign meaningless numbers to developers, now you don’t. Metacritics’ head of games Marc Doyle released a post behind the reasoning of removing the ratings.

Metacritic has long done the same thing with movies and for the most part it works, for example the lovely Uwe Boll maintains an average career score of 18. Doyle said that a “career score is not an independent evaluation (or an aggregation of reviews of) the individual person in question – it’s a simple average of all the individual Metascores assigned to those movies the individual worked on. We license our movie credit database from our partner IMDb”. Trying this with developers, however hasn’t quite worked.

When the ratings surfaced criticism was leveled at the apparent lack of games that made up a developers average. Doyle admitted that “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”.

Hang on, it appears Metacritic may change it’s mind again. Doyle mentions at the end of the blog post that “We are still very much committed to building a credits database, and welcome your participation in that process”. Woo. Hoo.

Metacritic, you so crazy.

via: Rock, Paper, Shotgun