Hey guys, I wrote that article about the ridiculous Metacritic score. Glad to see that it is getting the publicity it deserves because there ARE people that look at user review scores as a determination of a game's value. SOMEONE has to tell them that these scores were fabricated by angry fanboys trying to smear the game. The article failed approval on N4G and I actually got an email from Marc Doyle who is the co-founder and Games editor of Metacritic chastising me for being unprofessional. I honestly don't understand this viewpoint. They did update the Alan Wake page with a note saying those reviews shouldn't be trusted and will be reset to 0 at the game's launch but why is he mad at me for pointing them out? He said I should have tried to contact them before writing it but as another poster here already pointed out, there's no way to report the reviews there! A few of the other Examiners on the site I write for commented how they were also disgusted with the article. By the way they reacted, you would think that I was the one who actually reviewed it all 56 times to a 1.9 score. I stand by my work on this. The fanboys and console war make me sick and I don't want to see them unfoundedly impact Alan Wake when it could be such a great game. Seems like only the people who have posted here actually understood the article.
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