Ubisoft is "World's Least Consistent Videogame Publisher"

[ShadowKirby]

The thing with ubi is that they publish a lot of those Imagine games that get really poor scores on Metacritic so with the calculation system they use, it really outweighs the good games like the Splinter Cell series, the PoP series and BGaE.

So I really don't see why all of sudden half of you go "pffft, Ubisoft sucks they never made anything good". Dudes, did you forgot.... Rayman.

 

[BobisOnlyBob]

"Rockstar, which scored 19 points across 23 titles..."

"...Blizzard came in third with 11 points over seven titles."

Excuse me? If this was a kill/death ratio, I'd say Blizzard is winning! They're just not as prolific in number-of-games.
Assuming all Blizzard's games scored at least one point, Blizzard must have four 2-point games, while Rockstar must've had several zeroes or negatives! I'd call that a testament to consistency.

 

[Chalksoup]

looking over the article, Metacritic's grading system seems a bit fuzzy. i redid the math myself using the following system: 100-90=4 89-80=3 79-70=2 69-60=1 and 59-0=0 and the results seem to make more sense (although i did use the data in the arcticle as refence instead of trying to go to a bunch of sites and individualy gathering info)

1st: Blizzard 7 games 25/28total points 89.29% B+
2nd: Rockstar 23 games 65/92total points 70.65% C-
3rd: Telltale games 23 games 60/92total points 65.22% D

incedentaly the bottom also changed up a bit

3rd from last: Activision 227 games 316/908total points 34.80% F
2nd from last: Ubisoft 237 games 326/948total points 34.39% F
Last: THQ 150 games 180/600total points 30.00% F

I wonder if they were drunk when it came time to crunch the numbers cuz they were a bit off to say the least. (took me like 5 mins)

good catch BobisOnlyBob

 

[Lord Krunk]

Ubisoft is "World's Least Consistent Videogame Publisher"

Although to be fair, if their score is so low, wouldn't that mean they are consistent, just consitently crap? Better to call them "The worlds worst videogame publisher"?

Is what I was wondering. Surely an "inconsistent publisher" would be closer to 0, with good games balancing the poor games.

I agree, but somebody would sue if they used the term 'worst publisher'.

EA has published some great games, and has published some terrible ones as well. I would expect it to have recieved a zero or near-zero on the list.

Where's Valve, by the way?

 

[CrystalShadow]

Uh what?

How is ubisoft 'inconsistent'?

Based on the explanation of how the ranking system works, you can't determine 'inconsistent'.

Having a score of -237 means Ubisoft has a lot of games with low scores.

Inconsistent CANNOT be deduced from this scoring system regardless, but the MOST INCONSISTENT publisher would, by definition, have a score of 0.

Because being inconsistent means having scores that are all over the place.
Some really good, some really bad.

If you average that out, you would end up with a score of 0, not a negative or positive one.

Granted, a score of 0 could also arise because you produce a huge amount of average games, but in any event, I've made my point.

This just doesn't make sense.