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  • I’ll happily pay these 30% if it means I get quality services for them:

    • high speed download servers
    • reliable cloud saves
    • automatic, non intrusive updates
    • discussion forums
    • easy mod management
    • friend networking, multiplayer services
    • responsive and uncomplicated support

    (using Steam as an example here)

    People always act like those are to be taken as granted, but if you have ever worked in dev/devops, you would know that there’s a lot of work maintaining each one of them.

    Also, you can use these services for as long as you want, despite paying for them with a single one-time purchase.

    Of course, if the platform doesn’t provide any services or benefits, your point stands. In that case just avoid it.





  • The reason it’s lower on metacritic is mainly due to the fact that the critics rating is too high, imo. This leads to disappointed players leaving extra bad scores (i.e. 0/10) to offset the total score. In a way that’s review bombing, but only as a reaction to the inflated critics’ reviews (which I often suspect to be bought or bribed).

    Usually the Steam reviews are a lot more reliable. As I said, metacritic’s system is shit and encourages rating manipulation.


  • Metacritic’s user rating system is just shit. You see the game rated higher than deserved and you can either

    • give it an honest rating resulting in the total score dropping by 0.01
    • give it a zero rating and have the score drop by 0.1

    Of course most people chose to rate it in a way that has more impact on the total score, so it’s no wonder we see 0/10 and 10/10 more than anything else.

    This phenomenon will be even more exaggerated if critics ratings are undeservedly high, as is the case with Starfield.