We all remember: Before the launch of "Elden Ring", the unanimous high ratings of the media were amazing! IGN, VGC, Gamesradar, GameSpot and other media have given full marks, many people call it a new benchmark for open-world games, and the soul game is a masterpiece. Whether the game has reached new heights like never before, its popularity is certainly phenomenal. The Doctor recently discovered an interesting phenomenon: Eldon's Ring of Law has received a lot of bad reviews on rating sites like Metacritic!
In fact, when "Eldon's Ring of Law" was first launched on Steam, it also received many bad reviews due to optimization and bug problems. The Doctor remembers that the player rating at that time was "mixed (59% positive)", and I also suggested that PC players wait and see. Later, with the official handling of the game problem, the player's bad reviews have become less and less every day, and the current player reviews have been "special praise (85% for praise)".
Playing by yourself is praised, and if the experience is not good, it is a very normal thing. Steam's own evaluation mechanism also ensures that the above evaluation is objective and fair, because only players who have purchased the game can give a rating, and after the refund, it will not be included in the calculation of the total evaluation. In addition, Steam currently has a screening mechanism to deal with bad review bombardment, which can ensure that the ratings obtained by the game are basically related to the game content, not other, so from the Steam sample, the Doctor believes that most players are in favor of "Eldon's Ring of Law".
Comprehensive rating sites like Metacritic are different, and while the media rating part is subject to review, player ratings are less rigorous. The Doctor believes that the more ridiculous thing is that a player who has not played the game can also play any score, and it will be calculated as an average score. Although Metacritic has said that it will add some mechanisms to prevent the emergence of robots that deliberately wash scores, at present, the effect is not obvious! We often see extreme scores appear, and the reason is just a few words or garbled characters.
In the player community, a player named "OkPiccolo2678" said: Recently, a large number of new accounts have poured into Metacritic to brush bad reviews for "Eldon's Ring", for very simple reasons, such as: "The score is overrated", "The screen is not good", "The game is so difficult and boring", etc., and these accounts only evaluate the "Airdon Ring" product, which is obviously a malicious attack.
The Doctor immediately thought of the last phenomenal game, which was Nintendo's Collection! When the game became popular in 2020, a number of new accounts poured into Metacritic to give the game a bad review, indicating that the game pace was slow, the screen was poor, and so on. A large wave of positive and negative reviews is in stark contrast.
Who are the people who give the bad reviews? The Doctor can only guess that some players just don't like the "Eldon Ring" type of product, because they have not purchased it, so they can't go to Steam to evaluate, they can only go to Metacritic to complain; some players themselves have not played "Eldon Ring", but there is too much relevant information on the Internet, and they feel that they have been harassed, so they will complain; competitors (peers) use robots to brush points to attack. At the bottom of the Doctor's previous article about the Old Man Ring, there are the above player messages, which is very interesting. At present, it seems that the player evaluation on Metacritic has no reference value, or Steam is more reliable, eliminating malicious attacks and cloud player evaluations.
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