Sevster11

[quote who="wyndesmit" reply="63" id="3259722"]I Have to add my 2 cents here. Even though any ratings given out to games are arbitrary. I do not agree with the statements that they have absolutely no value, and could easily be rated in colour codings, or that people tend to rate in extremes. It is like asking a person if he liked the dinner he just had. The chances are very low you will get an answer like: "It was the best meal I have ever tasted in my life", or a re

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="62" id="3259692"]Depends on the sample size. For every XCOM there's a Diablo 3.[/quote] But that is just a major you know what from Blizzard. In movie industry, an opening weekend of a big movie is arguably the most important event judging the success or failure of the film. A decision to make Diablo 3 online-only without having sufficient network infrastructure to handle the volume probably deserves the initial sco

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="59" id="3259582"]That's actually an interesting side effect of the review scale being biased for games. An 'average' game is somewhere around 70, anything 50- is trash and shouldn't be touched, we're not even using the bottom half of the scale. This gives extreme negative reviews more weight than extreme positives: if a typical game deserves a 75, a 0 drags the average down more than a 100 pulls it up, and in our lopsided reviewing system most

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="58" id="3259538"] Quoting Sevster11, reply 57Actually, it takes only one 10 to counter a 1 star review. Both are extreme. The second type of reviewers cancel each other out in the end. If those people objectively gave 3's and 7's instead of 0's and 10's, this wouldn't change a thing, average would still be 5. That's only true if you think you only have '5' game. Say you think you have an '8' game, then it wo

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="3258691"]In my experience, there are two types of reviewers (broadly speaking). The first type is like Chibiabos (and myself to be honest) where we'll give a review based on what we think. The second type is the type who thinks the *total* averaged score should reflect their personal view and will thus give it a 10 or a 1 to try to affect the total review. It's those reviewers who ultimately make the player reviews worthle