Warner Bros. to peg license royalties to game reviews

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Sharp-kun wrote:The policy has a fatal flaw in that reviews are subjective, and are based on one persons policy (do they play the full game before writing, as they should), and on the magazines scoring system.

Different reviewers have different scorins systems. Some mags I've seen give out 80%+ to any game they find to be "good". My prefered system is where 50% is taken as "average", 70% as "good", and anything over 80% is brilliant. Over 90% is almost never given out.

It won't fly.
If they don't use every review, but look for a group that tend to be accurate, it would help.

In theory it seems like a good idea, though it'd need a lot of work to make it work well.
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Vendetta wrote:Hopefully Goldeneye: Rogue Agent will be fun. (It apparently rates you on how much of a bastard you are)
I thought calling it Goldeneye was pretty scummy. I mean, it has jack shit to do with Goldeneye 64, Goldeneye the movie, or the Goldeneye orbital weapons system from both.

Its just an intentionally deceptive marketing gimmick.
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