GameRankings site that offered an easy-to-overview interface with average review scores has been defeated by its competitor.
„Big News from the GameRankings / Metacritic Team – On Monday, December 9, 2019, www.gamerankings.com will redirect gamers to its sister site Metacritic.com, where they will find a wealth of information about how the latest video game titles are performing among critics. The entire GameRankings.com team will continue our mission to create informative game review content and bring reviews of classic games to Metacritic. As one of the oldest gaming sites online, we thank you for supporting GameRankings over the past 20 years, and we look forward to conquering new gaming worlds with you for years to come. Cheers, Allen Tyner, Lead on GameFAQs & GameRankings, and Marc Doyle, Co-founder, Metacritic,” GameRanking‘s statement reads.
Both Metacritic and GameRankings are owned by CBS Interactive, so we could simply say that a twenty-year-old site is going away, but its memories remain. The staff that was writing for the site will now continue their work at Metacritic, even though previously, it was GameRankings that was relevant for game scores. (Nowadays, it’s the other way around – previously, Obsidian Entertainment, which is now part of Xbox Game Studios, did not get a bonus because of their Metacritic score average for Fallout: New Vegas was one point behind Bethesda’s expectations on a 1-100 scale. The game had 84, the publisher expected 85…)
Unlike on Metacritic, GameRankings did not allow user reviews, meaning its user reviews section did not get bombed, which is usual on Metacritic (and often the difference is significant between the critic and the user average, although the latter uses a 0-10 scale with tenths, and not a 1-100 method).
Another site is thus going away, and after twenty years, thank you for everything, GameRankings.
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![However, an anonymous GOG employee paints an even darker tone of the internal situation: „We were told it’s a financial decision. GOG’s revenue couldn’t keep up with growth, the fact that we’re dangerously close to being in the red has come up in the past few months, and the market’s move towards higher [developer] revenue shares have, or will, affect the bottom line as well.](https://thegeek.games/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/the-gog-1-302x180.jpg)
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