Metacritic Faces Backlash Over Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review Bombing

The review aggregator is under scrutiny for its handling of negative user reviews citing political content in BioWare's latest game.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has received drastically different user reviews on Metacritic compared to other platforms like Steam and PlayStation.
Metacritic's user score for the game stands at 3.8 out of 10, while critic scores are significantly higher, reflecting a divide in reception.
The negative reviews on Metacritic frequently mention terms like 'woke,' 'propaganda,' and 'gender ideology,' raising questions about the moderation of such content.
Metacritic has stated it removes reviews that violate its terms of use, including abusive or discriminatory language, but many controversial reviews remain.
In contrast to Metacritic, Steam requires users to own the game to review it, resulting in a 'Mostly Positive' rating from over 13,000 user reviews.