Telltale busted giving Jurassic Park perfect user reviews

I don't see how this is a bad thing. They rated it in their own individual capacity. They didn't bribe or pay any reviewers off.

Mountain out of a molehill.
 
It wouldn't be an issue if they actually gave it a fair score. Giving your own product 10/10 when it's being panned as a piece of shit by most other places is the issue.
 
Graal said:
It wouldn't be an issue if they actually gave it a fair score. Giving your own product 10/10 when it's being panned as a piece of shit by most other places is the issue.
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It's their opinion. I don't get the big deal. It's the "user score." Some will like it; some will hate it. Generally, if you're reading a review (from whatever source) you don't just read the first one that pops up and take it as gospel. You see why people who loved it, loved it and why people who hated it didn't and determine, using your own brain, whether their feelings about certain things resonates with you.

Give 'em a break.

They weren't underhanded, they kept it to an informal medium and said their bit.

Again: mountain out of a molehill.

People can be so fucking overzealous and petty about nothing. Bloody armchair activists looking for any reason to get up on their high-horses.
 
Lycan I think its more of an ethical thing. The game is, according to the reviews i've seen not as good as Back to the Future so them giving it a perfect user score is a bit underhanded.

Granted I am sure there are far worse cloak & dagger type deals going on in the industry thing is they got caught. So yes its a little thing that people are making into a huge thing but in all fairness it is pretty unethical to try and boost your own games ratings in such a way.
 
OmegaFenix said:
Lycan I think its more of an ethical thing. The game is, according to the reviews i've seen not as good as Back to the Future so them giving it a perfect user score is a bit underhanded.

Granted I am sure there are far worse cloak & dagger type deals going on in the industry thing is they got caught. So yes its a little thing that people are making into a huge thing but in all fairness it is pretty unethical to try and boost your own games ratings in such a way.
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I don't see anything unethical about someone who worked on something openly saying that they are happy with it as long as it's via informal means.

Four people who worked on the project gave it 10/10. That's hardly rigging the score.

Also, they didn't "get caught" or try to hide who they were. That's exactly the point:

“Telltale Games do not censor or muzzle its employees in what they post on the internet. However, it is being communicated internally that anyone who posts in an industry forum will acknowledge that they are a Telltale employee. In this instance, two people who were proud of the game they worked on, posted positively on Metacritic under recognizable online forum and XBLA account names.”
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And even then, even if they all hid their identities I can't see this as a big deal.

If they bribed or paid off a reviewer or if they had a friend in the industry who reviewed it then by all means, cry out about the violation of ethical standards and burn them at the stake for it. But for something like this? Yeeeeeesh... Out of proportion.

This is just how I feel about it. I just think it's such a silly thing to get riled up about. I don't believe they did anything BAD, you know what I mean? :p
 
Lycanthrope said:
I don't see anything unethical about someone who worked on something openly saying that they are happy with it as long as it's via informal means.

Four people who worked on the project gave it 10/10. That's hardly rigging the score.

Also, they didn't "get caught" or try to hide who they were. That's exactly the point:



And even then, even if they all hid their identities I can't see this as a big deal.

If they bribed or paid off a reviewer or if they had a friend in the industry who reviewed it then by all means, cry out about the violation of ethical standards and burn them at the stake for it. But for something like this? Yeeeeeesh... Out of proportion.

This is just how I feel about it. I just think it's such a silly thing to get riled up about. I don't believe they did anything BAD, you know what I mean? :p
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I honestly dont really care, this is such a trivial matter that other that seeing the articles on the sites i frequent I really see the point of it. Was just trying to try and imagine what people consider the big deal.
 
OmegaFenix said:
I honestly dont really care, this is such a trivial matter that other that seeing the articles on the sites i frequent I really see the point of it. Was just trying to try and imagine what people consider the big deal.
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Then we feel the same.

It just grates me cheese that people who would never even touch the game in a billion years, pop over to negatively review this game because that makes them feel like they're "Giving it to the man!"

Faith in humanity dwindles at times like these :(
 
Lycanthrope said:
Then we feel the same.

It just grates me cheese that people who would never even touch the game in a billion years, pop over to negatively review this game because that makes them feel like they're "Giving it to the man!"

Faith in humanity dwindles at times like these :(
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Which is why I gave up on the species long ago, that way the only way my faith can go it up....
 
OmegaFenix said:
Which is why I gave up on the species long ago, that way the only way my faith can go it up....
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I don't want to fall into that mindset though. I abhor being cynical.

It's just ironic that cynicism tends to be closer to the truth of reality than giving folk the benefit of the doubt :p

Wooo! Philosophy!
 
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Meh, I still stand by what I said. There's a difference between giving your own game a fair score and giving it a perfect score because 'hurrr I'm proud of it and I helped make it and it's the bestestwestest and fuck anyone who says it isn't'.

Not that I really mind as it is, after all, only four reviews. I just find it hilarious. The same way in which I'd laugh if someone who drives a Fiat Uno wants to tell you it's unrivalled and the best car in the world.
 
Graal said:
Not that I really mind as it is, after all, only four reviews. I just find it hilarious. The same way in which I'd laugh if someone who drives a Fiat Uno wants to tell you it's unrivalled and the best car in the world.
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Whaaaat?

You can rate something based on your experience of it within context. Any number of different games might score a 9 in a formal review, but one of those games might be preferred over another which also scored 9.

For them to give it an informal review score of 10 I don't believe that they are saying it's the best game in the world, just that they feel strongly about it in a personal capacity.

You're taking it a bit too seriously, methinks.
 
Yeah, but if a game scores around 50-60% on most sites, I don't think it's technically possible to feel that it rates a 10, even in your own personal capacity. I mean, if you help make a game, you know whether it's good or not. There's a bit of leeway for personal preference, but I certainly don't see a game going from being under-average to being a 10 just because it's your own game. :p

Also, a 10/10 score is supposed to be indicative of a game that does very little wrong and is more or less perfect. One should also take into consideration the context withing which other people received the game before deciding on a score for your review.
 
THIS I found on IGN and while it deals with the MW3 Metacritic Troll fest I think some of the concepts/ideas expressed there in applies to this thread also.
 
This makes me sad. I really like Telltale and I hope the rest of their games are better than this :(
 
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