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EA defends dev who posted top score review on Metacritic

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/29 ... etacritic/

PR fail :roll:

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Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:09 pm

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Re: EA defends dev who posted top score review on Metacritic

This sort of thing is completely illegal in the European Union, as was mentioned in the article - it misleads consumers.

He should have identified himself, not tried to pass himself off as a consumer.

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Re: EA defends dev who posted top score review on Metacritic

If he said "I'm a game dev and I think I've made some 10 out of 10 [LIFTED] right here" then I wouldnt care. That's no worse than those who spam with 0 ratings to drag scores down. But doing it posing as joe public is wrong.

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Re: EA defends dev who posted top score review on Metacritic

Seems to be company policy at EA/Bioware

http://www.metacritic.com/user/LupoTheeButcher

aka Dragon Age Project Manager Benoit Houle

Read more here: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments ... etacritic/

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Re: EA defends dev who posted top score review on Metacritic


	Linux_User wrote: This sort of thing is completely illegal in the European Union, as was mentioned in the article - it misleads consumers. He should have identified himself, not tried to pass himself off as a consumer.

As a game developer he could have made comments but been ineligible to vote. Declaring that he was a developer would have shown that he had a vested interest. If he just said that I particularly like the such and such scene that could be verified by other users without a problem.

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