Should Giant Bomb discontinue the use of rating for reviews?

Jeff's already explained pretty plainly that the 5-star review system works fine and it's not going away. Ever.

No, not because they make the review better, but because, with a score, this site gets on metacritic, and since companies use that site for bonus pay rates, it means they are more likely to deal with gb, since, they want to influence gb.

I could not care less if any website reviewed anything ever again.

I think they should switch to a sliding scale of -4.3333 to 16.8164113554. That would simplify things and make everybody happy.

@Ravenlight: So..does it increase/decrease in increments of 1?

@gladspooky said:

Yes. Because anyone who pays 60 dollars for a product based on a star rating is a moron.

Yup it's moronic to quickly be able to check out a bunch of scores and say "Hey that game I was excited about is getting great ratings across the board, it must be pretty good!" instead of reading long-winded opinions of people who could have completely different tastes to you and spend 60 dollars based on that.

@Ravenlight said:

I think they should switch to a sliding scale of -4.3333 to 16.8164113554. That would simplify things and make everybody happy.

Thats numberwang!

@Still_I_Cry said:

@Ravenlight: So..does it increase/decrease in increments of 1?

It's an average of all games released for the current year. It will increase/decrease based on the amount of and mean score of all games released up until that point.

@Ravenlight: Ah, makes sense.

(Not really)