>>41819481>80's/90's/early 00'sYou know, there was this game magazine around the Atari era that was boycotted and vetoed because it refused to conform to the scoring standards of other magazines. This meant that average/decent games were getting scores lower than 7/10, and this was unacceptable. Shortly after, when home consoles became a major thing, game magazines were just advertising pamphlets.
>>41819533It does, because by being codified that way, anyone looking at the score will understand that below 7 is utter shit.
No matter your position on nominal averages, you don't get to decide the value of each number for everyone else.
