I think Metacritic is great and I'm very happy that the website exists. Video game reviews are probably the closest thing we have to an objective evaluation of a completely subjective experience (take a look at reviews of your 5 favourite albums and compare them to your 5 favourite games). I just think it's terrible that companies are putting people's jobs on the line because of these scores.
The only people to blame here are Bethesda. You think Michael Bay is never going to get another movie because the Transformers movies reviewed terribly? Or that Adam Sandler will never act again because his last movies were terrible? No, because movie companies only care if something is successful (for better or worse). It's crazy to think that people who developed a successful game that people loved are going to lose their jobs over a number that really doesn't have that big of an impact on sales.
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