It amazes me how stupid developers are getting. It is like they don’t seem to get how the gaming industry works. I mean it’s a fairly simple process from what I can tell. Someone comes up with an idea for a game or a sequel. Then the money to make said game is acquired. The game gets made and released to reviewers. They review the game and then it goes to the general public. Now in my mind once the reviewers get their grubby little paws on a game, developer’s and publisher’s should just sit back and see what happens. Making anything for public consumption is a gamble and you don’t always succeed in that arena. Apparently since success is so important, some developers have decided to insert themselves into the review/consumer part of the cycle. This is not something we should be happy about.

First  up,  Cliffy B of epic games and his whining to the press. He slapped Eurogamer after they dared to give Gears Of War 3 an eight out of ten. Normally I would ignore silly shit like that, especially from Cliffy. Until he tchose to hide behind the it was just a joke defense. I lost a lot of respect for him when he did that. Okay so we all know I wasn’t that fond of him anyway, but I never expected his cocky ass to act like such a child over an 8. Now even with his childish antics and the fact that bitching about an 8 score is beyond dumb, Cliffy didn’t try to influence the system directly. He just want to be stupid about a good score. Which as good old Jim demonstrates is a moronic concept for both developers and gamers.

Okay taking cheap shots as Cliffy aside, his antics illustrate the line for me in the wonderful game industry. I can tolerate bitching about review scores, no matter how dumb the argument. What I can not tolerate is an idiot  game dev calling for scores to be higher. Glen Schofield, of sledgehammer games has determined he doesn’t like the user reviews of MW3 on metacritc. So he took to twitter to call for gamers to raise the score. He called the score “suspiciously low”. Well no shit genius it’s a metacritic user review. Which has no value what so ever you idiot. Almost every popular game that comes out gets low score bombed. I am not sure what Mr. Schofield was thinking, but he should of thought harder. For a developer to openly ask for higher scores is disgusting. I think Activision had better rope in some of the clown car over at Sledgehammer. Personally this is just making me want to wait even longer to play MW3. Why should I give my money to morons like this.

All this does is get the people who already believe reviews are rigged stirred up again. Hard to blame them for thinking they way they do when industry hacks start being supremely stupid. Look I can sympathize to a point. It’s hard to see a game you worked months, possibly years on get trashed. Still your fucking job is not to manipulate reviewers or consumers. That doesn’t make the industry better, it just causes more chaos and havoc. I mean it’s bad enough gamers themselves are wigging out over high scores. To have some meat head on a dev team start crying over user scores is just to bloody much.

As gamers the only way to combat this kind of nonsense is with our wallets. Something I have advocated thousands of times. The problem is a lot of gamers would rather score bomb on metacritic in a vain attempt to look cool. While at the same time scurry out and buy the same game they are trashing on. Still it sickens me personally to see a member of a development team act like a Neo Gaf troll. To make myself feel better I shall go hunt Giants in Skyrim. That should keep me from COD for a good long time.