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beetle120 (2415) on 5/22/2009 1:30 AM · Permalink · Report
There is TV show on Australian TV called 'Good Game' and they do reviews on a few games each week. I would like to add these reviews to MobyGames but I have 2 questions:
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Are reviews from TV shows allowed? They have a full transcript on there website with the video of the review so it is not hard to get the summary.
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There are two reviewers that do the review at the same time but they give a different score at the end (the biggest gap I can remember is a 7/10 and a 4/10 for the same game). Occasionally only one of the reviewers give a score What should I do here? I am thinking that I should give the average of the two scores as I don't want to add 2 different reviews from the same source for the same game to the database.
Xoleras (66141) on 5/22/2009 3:34 AM · Permalink · Report
1) our FAQ says "MobyRank is the combination of reviews and rankings from professional critics and reviewers from a number of online, television and print media outlets." (though it would probably the first to actually use that type of source ;))
2) Usually it goes the following way: if one review has two conclusions and therefore two final scores (e.g. one from each reviewer), two separate rankings are added; averages are done if there are no "real" final scores (e.g. 7/10 for singleplayer, 4/10 for multiplayer; ending up as 5.5/10 here)
