Meta Critic hand picks sites for reviews, and they would not accept us. Also we don't have a scoring/rating system.
OpenCritic would definitely include the Codex. They have much smaller sites there.
They claim to be much more transparent, and they share their requirements:Do they hand pick sites though, like meta critic?
Oh, my bad. It's just that PoE has 4 reviews (or more, not sure), thought 15 overall was granted.THAT is actually pretty cool, IF they do 100% adhere to that policy. Good for them.
I don't think we do anywhere near 15 reviews a year though.
In the interest of transparency, audience size should be publicly verifiable. Meeting any one of the following criteria is sufficient to fulfill this requirement:
- Over 50,000 social media followers on any single channel
- Over 75,000 social media followers across any three channels combined
- An Alexa ranking higher than 100,000
- Consistently more than 400,000 unique monthly visits on SimilarWeb
- Consistently more than 250,000 unique monthly visitors on Compete
- Any other extremely convincing public evidence that your reviews are consumed by more than 50,000 people.
Reviews are primarily for helping gamers make purchase decisions
Publication follows basic journalism ethics and standards
I think that's just poorly worded. It's probably meant to prevent people from trying to include let's play stuff with commentary, retrospectives, etc.So it's basically a "buy this" format. Can't we just talk about games just for the sake of talking about games?
The Codex, obviously, has no problems with this
Aren't there about 15 PoE reviews published already?THAT is actually pretty cool, IF they do 100% adhere to that policy. Good for them.
I don't think we do anywhere near 15 reviews a year though.
Publication is trusted by a large set of gamers
Bump it and let the Bethesda butthurt begin.It's interesting that Metascore and User score differ so much:http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/fallout-4/user-reviews
The only explanation I can see is that Bethesda would ostracize any magazine/gaming website editors if the score was negative (just like it was with Canard PC).
neutral-positive
Codexian schizophrenia strikes again.
We want to be able to say whatever the fuck we want because muh freedom of expression! meaning to be able to shitpost about the great black-transgender-jewish-feminazi-SJW-video game conspiracy and calling each other faggots all day, erry day; we also want to be a truly reputable prestigious magazine with all our favorite developer darlings posting here and taking us super seriously.