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Originally Posted by Kent814
Because in order for a game to be listed on the Top PC games list, you need a certain # of critic ratings to be shown, and Metacritic doesn't want some dumb(obviously i don't think its dumb) game being #1 on their list, which it would be if they added more critic reviews
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That's one theory.
I have a couple:
1) They don't actively seek out reviews, they wait for sites to submit them and if they don't submit them then they don't put them up.
2) A site has to pay to get their review up. Metacritic does link to their sites after all.
I once emailed them about listing some games on their site and they were pretty dismissive of the request. I have no ties to the games, I just wanted to see them listed so people could post/check reviews of them. Yeah, they were older games, but they were still for sale and I was considering buying them. Their response amounted to, and I'm paraphrasing, we're not interested in including them, if you want ratings of those games, just go to our sister site gamerankings.com. I didn't reply, but I just thought, "wow, okay, that's not very inclusive". I like metacritic as it's great to quickly read a bunch of reviews, but I wish they were more interested in being more comprehensive.