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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It does shift review coverage, generally, toward the ones with the most advertising. Kane & Lynch is a weird one to pull out to support your argument, because despite the advertising, they got fairly poor reviews. (Also, as someone who’s played Kane & Lynch, those games are underrated.) The games with the big advertising budgets typically have a degree of confidence behind that spend, which again creates selection bias toward games more likely to review well, but that doesn’t mean that Redfall and Suicide Squad still can’t happen and review poorly.

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verdi@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It does shift review coverage, generally, toward the ones with the most advertising

but that doesn’t mean that Redfall and Suicide Squad still can’t happen and review poorly

Thank you for arguing in my favour. Both Redfall and Suicide Squad reviewed well above 50%. For people on Lemmy arguing about statistics it’s obvious the mean is shifted so anything around 75% is mediocre, however, to the average consumer, that is not the case. Furthermore, I mentioned Kane and Lynch because that game was the reason giant bomb exists and everyone nowadays knows big publishers strong-arm outlets.

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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Above 50%, but do you have any idea how much lower the bar can be for a bad video game than Redfall and Suicide Squad? Those are the games that typically aren’t getting coverage. Redfall and Suicide Squad, again, had some confidence behind them. When that much money is thrown behind a game and there’s no confidence in it, it usually doesn’t even come out.
  
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  - verdi@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m sorry, I refuse to continue engaging with bad faith arguments.
    
    Have a nice day.
    
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