Dark Secrets The Gaming Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know

The Rating System Is Flawed

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When it comes to video game review scores, they are typically ranked on a scale from one to ten. However, if a game receives a score of five, it doesn’t mean that the game is average, it means that it was awful. At this point, the rating system is terribly flawed with anything receiving the score of under a seven meaning that it’s a bad game.

When a seven out of ten means that the score is average, it makes the entire rating system unreliable and meaningless, especially when random decimal points are added to the number.