Xbox Live Indie Devs Accuse College Lacrosse Fans of Down Voting

[MrJoyless]

Holy geeze metacritic ratings trolls are hitting XBLA now, THE END IS NIGH!!!

but seriously i always found it odd that XBLA lets you rate games you havnt even played or purchased....

and if this is an april fools joke....i hate you guys....

 

[Malgorath]

You should only be able to rate an indie game if you have purchased and downloaded it. That would make sure this doesn't happen again.

 

[Sovvolf]

And thus, maybe the corporate giants will finally become aware of why USER RATING SYSTEMS NEVER FUCKING WORK.

This is why metacritic is entirely unreliable, because the 'consumer' will fuck things up at their leisure.

I agree with this, mainly because fanboys, haters and such will rate the games either a straight 10/10 or 1/10. Middle ground is hard to find and most of the sensible well thought out reviews are lost under all the trash. I've even read some reviews which state "I haven't play the game but.... -insert torrents of lies, false information and wild mass guessing- ... so I give it 1/10" or "I've only played the demo (you know that demonstration that has the words "Not the final representation of the full product") but I can tell you it SUCKS!!!! 1/10.". Yeah too many people like that to take the used reviews on metacritic seriously, which is too bad for those legitimate user reviewers who've actually put some thought into there reviews.

As for the subject at hand, I've got a feeling most people are going to be pissed at this and I imagine many are going to flood to raise 'Cthulhu Saves the World' rating while destroying the Lacrosse game rating. I'm sort wandering of they deserve it.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

I can't even FIND indie games on xbl anymore.

 

[Blood Countess]

ask my opinion have a section just for indie games so people who want to look for those can go to that section.I hate having to shift through them when looking for a title I want since I don't do indie games but I got no issue when they being there either, different tastes for different people

 

[Dr. Whiggs]

I never hear any good reasons to release a game on xbox live through indie... seriously what's the point when you could use steam?

It's almost like the Xbox has a larger user base or something!

 

[Mistwraithe]

The US should follow Microsoft's lead with their Presidential voting system.

"You don't have to be a US citizen to vote, in fact you don't even have to be human..."

What could go wrong?

 

[Galliam]

Why not force players to play a game for a certain amount of hours before being allowed to rate it?

 

[Podunk]

I've thought the ratings on Xbox Live seemed stupid for a while now. A simple solution would be to only allow games to rate games they've bought, tried, or have data for on their console.