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Metacritic stops letting you review games on the day they’re released – The Verge
Metacritic tries to minimize review bombing on its website by locking user reviews on a new game release for over 36 hours. The new policy comes after The Last of Us Part II was the target of review bombing in June.
In an attempt to stop review bombing
Paper Mario: The Origami King came out on July 17th, but user reviews wont be available until July 18th
Metacritic wants people to actually play a game before reviewing it, so the site now requires users to wait 36 hours from when a new game is released before leaving a score. The intention is to prevent review-bombing campaigns, where people leave negative scores on a title sometimes as a way to punish the developer. Heading to a review page for a recently…
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