This Matthew Karch, CEO of Saber InteractiveHe doesn’t disdain words to express his opinion about it.Importance of Metacritic assessment practically speaking, compared to the actual success of a video game nothing.
The reference is to Saber Interactive’s direct experience: their games have never reached star ratings, but sales have always been pretty good considering the genres they belong to. In particular, the contrast with World War Z and the latter was evident. Evil Dead: The Game.
Speaking of the latter, Karch reported that Metacritic’s ratings were “not great, but pretty solid for the genre in question,” but noted that in a matter of days, in less than a week, it had already scored. 500,000 copies sold.
This leads Saber CEO to the belief that “The days when Metacritic voting determined a game’s sales success are long gone”.
On the other hand, according to Karch, what is most important for promotion and sales right now “social media influencer and talk about it in general “.
which does not explicitly exclude quality But first place is mentioned about the product itself: “Games are sold according to the quality of the product, no matter how it is received by the press. can safely tell you, publishers I wish they never posted“,” he explained. It’s nice to put stickers on the wall, but what good is it if you can’t even get nails to hang it?”
Source: Multiplayer
