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nocturnal_traveler posted...

Not at all true. That's just people misusing the 1-10 scores.

Is a 5/10 a failing grade or 'not bad, not great'? There's no central authority to point at to resolve this, and there are great reviewers doing serious work that use either scale.

How a medium's scores tend to look is influenced by many factors including from consumers, from industry and from critics themselves. Even if you think the typical 7/10 scored game on say metacritic should be scored higher or lower, that is de facto the scale in the medium.