Metacritic actively protecting Dragon Age 2 user score?

[DirtyFinger]

I was trying to submit a not-so-flattering review of Dragon Age 2 at http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dragon-age-ii

If anyone has followed the news: The ad-paid professional reviews are giving high scores while users are much more critical and often disappointed by the sequel.

Well, as I said, I tried to submit a review. However, the submission form refuses to accept my review and pops out an interesting error message: "Score (10.0) id must be a floating point number."

For the record (see screenie): I gave a generous score of 3 ... NOT 10.0.

 

[SuperJay]

That's quite the conspiracy theory you've got there. Surely the more likely scenario is that the an error in the coding of the review form?

 

[Adam7Eight]

That's quite the conspiracy theory you've got there. Surely the more likely scenario is that the an error in the coding of the review form?

You need to read-up more on BioWare, EA, and Metacritic.

 

[Thrawn]

Yeah it'll just be an error in their code, if they were "actively protecting" the score as you're saying, I think the user score would be much higher.

 

[DirtyFinger]

not if they had this idea that they'd implement a system that allows them to gradually influence the user score - instead of whumping it to a near perfect score all in one go.

 

[Double A]

Yeah it'll just be an error in their code, if they were "actively protecting" the score as you're saying, I think the user score would be much higher.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UpToEleven

 

[GoodGame]

Maybe it took offense at your lack of standard English spellings?

 

[SuperJay]

You need to read-up more on BioWare, EA, and Metacritic.

No, I'm aware. This just doesn't seem like that's the case here. I know DF wants to interpret the "(10)" as "THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE ME GIVE IT A TEN!!!1!1!" but it's seriously just a script error message.