Is Metacritic Damaging the Games Industry?
February 12th, 2009
It’s fair to say that the founders of Metacritic never foresaw it generating the attention it has attracted. Intended as a way of seeing at a glance whether a game was worth buying, it’s now used as a measure of game quality by the largest publishers, developers and retailers.
John Riccitiello has used its scores to define EA’s business strategy to analysts; Steam prominently displays them on its product pages; developer Frontier uses them for sales forecasting.