Metacritic Says It's Evolving Moderation Amidst Horizon DLC Review Bombing
Aloy's journey continued last week via the launch of Horizon Forbidden West's Burning Shores DLC. An expansion on the sequel that has been largely celebrated by critics. Its user score paints a very different picture, seemingly because (spoiler alert) Aloy is confirmed to be queer at the end of the DLC. Metacritic has responded by confirming it will be changing its approach to user review moderation to prevent this from happening again.
“Metacritic is aware of the abusive and disrespectful reviews of Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores and we have a moderation system in place to track violations of our terms of use,” Metacritic explained via a statement to Eurogamer. “We are currently evolving our processes and tools to introduce stricter moderation in the coming months.”
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Metacritic didn't clarify how exactly it will go about making its process more watertight moving forward. It does seem like the wrongs to be found in Burning Shores' user reviews are already being put right. The expansion fell to a score of 2.7 over the weekend but is now up to 4.0. There are still reviews citing the queer kiss at the end of the game being the sole reason for awarding Burning Shores a zero out of ten, though.
What makes the uproar over Aloy being a lesbian, and the word woke being thrown around so frequently that it has lost the little meaning it still had, even more ludicrous is that the kiss appears to be a choice. The player needs to actively choose to have Aloy kiss new character Seyka. That means if you really have that big of an issue with Aloy, a fictional character in a video game, being gay, you can opt for her not to kiss another woman, because god
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