Just two days after launching the feature, Metacritic has temporarily suspended its developer ratings service, citing problems with its resources. The service quickly generated some controversy, with devs claiming their profiles were incomplete or otherwise inaccurate, which negatively impacted ratings.
“Over the last week or so, there has been an enthusiastic discussion in the gaming press and social media about how the Metacritic team collects and displays credits and scores for individual contributors to video games,” writes Metacritic editor Marc Doyle.
“Although our credits database (which is powered by our sister site GameFAQs) is growing, as our users’ feedback has indicated, it is a work in progress and is not nearly as comprehensive as it needs to be to accurately provide a career score for these individuals. As such, we have removed that career score from the pages dedicated to creative individuals behind games on Metacritic. We are still very much committed to building a credits database, and welcome your participation in that process.”
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