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Metacritic removes individual developer scores
Less than a week after implementing game developer career scores, Metacritic has removed the feature from its site.
In a blog post, Metacritic Games Editor Marc Doyle says that the feature "is a work in progress and is not nearly as comprehensive as it needs to be to accurately provide a career score for these individuals."
Career score, Doyle explains, is not an independent evaluation of the individual developer in question. Rather, it's an average of all the Metascores assigned to the games the developer has worked on.
Problems have been discovered, however, in the credits database (powered by Metacritic sister site GameFAQs.com), which can at times be both incomplete and incorrect. Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe, for example, tweeted that the site left out some of the games he has worked on in the past, while Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski discovered that he'd been given credit for a game he's never worked on.
"So, anyone at Metacritic wanna remove 'Geist' from my page? I didn't work on that title!" he tweeted on Sunday.
Despite the accuracy issues, Doyle says that Metacritic is still committed to building the database and is encouraging anyone that wants to participate to submit information on GameFAQs.