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<\/span>Paper Mario: The Origami King came out on July 17th, but user reviews won’t be available until July 18th<\/small><\/p>\nMetacritic wants people to actually play a game before reviewing it, so the site now requires users to wait 36 hours from when a new game is released before leaving a score. The intention is to prevent review-bombing campaigns, where people leave negative scores on a title sometimes as a way to punish the developer. Heading to a review page for a recently released title on Metacritic will now display the message “Please spend some time playing the game,” with a specific date and time when a user can publish a review for that game on the site.<\/p>\n
The new policy change has locked user reviews for two big games that came out today: Ghosts of Tsushima<\/em> <\/em>and Paper Mario: The Origami King<\/em>. Users have to wait until July 18th at 12PM PT to review them. The new policy was first spotted by PlayStation Universe<\/em> last week, but Forbes<\/em> brought attention to it today.<\/p>\n Review bombing — when a large group of users goes to a digital storefront or review aggregator to leave poor scores on a product — is done to retaliate against a company or a public figure for perceived slights. The Last of Us Part II<\/em> was targeted on Metacritic following its release in June in part because of its story and inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters.<\/p>\n Metacritic is not the only platform tackling a review bomb problem. Valve’s gaming distribution platform Steam has also been subjected to review bombing. In 2017, Valve added a bar graph to show positive and negative scores over a game’s lifetime. Last year, Valve said it would investigate Steam games being review bombed and hide off-topic reviews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Tags:<\/b> Taylor Lyles<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\nSee Campaign: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/17\/21328597\/metacritic-user-reviews-delayed-review-bombing<\/a>
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Paper Mario: The Origami King came out on July 17th, but user reviews won’t be available until July 18th Metacritic wants people to actually play a game before reviewing it, so the site now requires users to wait 36 hours from when a new game is released before leaving a score. The intention is to … Continue reading Metacritic stops letting you review games on the day they’re released<\/span><\/a> Continue Reading