Earlier this month, Metacritic users spotted a new user review system on the rating aggregator?s website that prevented players from leaving reviews for newly-released games right away.
?Please spend some time playing the game,? read a note on Superluminal?s Metacritic page, which users quickly realized stemmed from the high-profile review bombing of The Last of Us Part II. Although Metacritic has come under fire numerous times for making it easy for bots to mass vote, response to the Naughty Dog title became an industry-wide debate, which many believe led to the website finally snapping into action.

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