Arkane founder and Dishonored co-creative director
Raphaël Colantonio says the Metacritic scoring ecosystem encourages devs to make "safe, boring games," while launches like Stalker 2 suffer in overall scoring at launch due to bugs and technical problems. Colantonio calls lower launch scores impacted by bugs "misleading" because these technical issues can be fixed further down the line, while the overall score remains the same.
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