Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books.
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14 Facts About Metacritic
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Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999.
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Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or what the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review.
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Metacritic was launched in January 2001 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, and a classmate from the University of Southern California law school, Jason Dietz, after two years of developing the site.
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Metacritic has been used by businesses to predict future sales.
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Metacritic explains its influence as coming from the higher cost of buying video games than music or movie tickets.
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Metacritic claimed that an increasing number of businesses and financial analysts use Metacritic as "an early indicator of a game's potential sales and, by extension, the publisher's stock price".
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Metacritic took the ratings seriously and stressed the need for the company to bounce back.
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Metacritic has said that it will not reveal the relative weight assigned to each reviewer.
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In June 2018, Metacritic established the "Must-See" label for a movie that "achieves a Metascore of 81 or higher and has been reviewed by a minimum of 15 professional critics".
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Metacritic received mixed reviews from website critics, commentators, and columnists alike.
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Metacritic has been criticized for converting all scoring systems into a single quantitative percentage-based scale.
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Metacritic has been criticized for how it handles banning users and their reviews, with no notice or formal process for appeal.
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In July 2020, Metacritic added a 36-hour waiting period for user reviews to be posted for video games at launch in an effort to reduce user score review-bombing during that period by users that haven't or barely played the game during a period when most players haven't finished the game.
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