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" Yea I hate the Metacritic scoring system with a passion, expessialy when it comes to letter grades "Why? It kind of makes sense, since they cover the whole scale from 1 to 100. I dont use Metacritic, but from the chart that Matty supplied it looks reasonable to me
The main problem I have that if you have two sites that use the letter grading system, a 'C' for one site may mean something completely different for another site, there is also this problem for numbers as well.
But letters are less commonly used for reviews so peoples perception of a letter grade is completely different, especially when you go across different countries and cultures, but usually you have the text review to back up the score that is given, take away that text review and your left just a letter. Now a 'C' for example relating it to the school system where I live (in England) for my A-levels, 'C' is okay, it's not bad if I get all C's it will mean I will get into University, I'm not going to Oxford or Cambridge, but I will still get to go to a respectable Uni, now this metacritic conversion system says that it will become a 50/100 basically a 5/10, now a game that is 5/10, unless it was a game I had been looking forward to or a franchise that I was a big fan of, I wouldn't even touch that game in my opinon 5/10 is a bad score.
So does the reviewer think that the game is a "'C' not great, doesn't stand out that much, but it's not a 'bad' game" or does he mean a "'C' this is a 'bad' game that I would not recommend" well Metacritic would rate that as a 50/100 a game that the reviewer would not recommend but you would have to read the reviewers text to see what he really thought of the game.
And I know in their corporate shpill they say something like the "Scores are wieghted differently to the final score depending on what website/magazine they come from", but that still does not cover each writer in those websites/magazines.
To sum up, I think that this is the main problem with Metacritic, and other sites like Metacritic, in general but it is a bigger problem when talking about letters
(Sorry for the long post I got a bit carried away)
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