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In a not so perfect society, AKA this one, fanboys would use the user score on Metacritic to discourage people to buy a certain game that's on a console they dislike. Let's take LittleBigPlanet for example: the game has gotten a very good 95% from professional reviewers but only a 64% user rating. Why the big difference? Well, apparently, Xbox fanboys have stormed the site and are purposefully giving the game a low score to sabotage the Playstation 3.
I recently pre-ordered Little Big Planet at gamestop. I just received a call from the local gamestop stating that Little Big Planet would be available tomorrow afternoon. The message was recorded and seemed to be legit. Hopefully it's true. Here it is
Ripten: "I recently interviewed Metacrtic founder, Marc Doyle, about what many were calling a suspiciously low LittleBigPlanet user score of 6.3 on his site ... the result apparently motivated a group PlayStation 3 fanboys to retaliate."
Wired: "Want your very own Ape Escape Piposaru to show up in your LittleBigPlanet levels? You'll have to pre-order a copy of the Japanese release, out next week.
NextGen Player writes:
EuroGamer writes:
Sony Computer Entertainment Portugal told to Eurogamer Portugal that LittleBigPlanet will be released in that country in November 4th, at a price of 69.99 Euros.
In response to the reaction many gamers had to LittleBigPlanet's 6.3 metacritic user score, Ripten.com took some time to sit down with Marc Doyle, the founder of Metacritic.
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