When I was a kid and I wanted to cheat in school, I realized that I couldn’t submit something with a perfect score…especially if my track record prior to that was less than stellar. I had to submit a few wrong answers just to make it look authentic. That’s rule #1: Make it look real.
Sadly, this is advice that was ignored by TellTale Games, the developers of Jurassic Park: The Game, as they were recently caught giving themselves perfect review scores on Metacritic (which seems to be in the news quite a bit these days).
Apparently, complete sentences, proper punctuation and correct spelling was enough to make GameSpot suspicious, and after some digging around they discovered the usernames that were used to submit these glowing reviews were actually linked to a few TellTale employees.
When asked about posting user reviews, TellTale responded: “Telltale Games do not censor or muzzle its employees in what they post on the internet,” said a Telltale representative when asked about company policy on posting user reviews.
It is being communicated internally that anyone who posts in an industry forum will acknowledge that they are a Telltale employee. In this instance, two people who were proud of the game they worked on, posted positively on Metacritic under recognizable online forum and XBLA account names.”
TellTale has had some decent games in the past, especially the Monkey Island series and the more recent Back to the Future, but none of them were 10/10 games, so why give Jurassic Park a perfect score?
And on a final note, I don’t know what’s more sad: the fact that TellTale was caught being so blatant, or the fact that proper grammar and punctuation is too unbelievable to come from the “average gamer.” After going to any forum and looking at 90% of the posts, who can argue with GameSpot?
SOURCE | GAMESPOT