Metacritic Removes Thousands of Negative Ratings for Death

A Redditor discovered that Metacritic removed about 6,400 negative user ratings for Death Strandingt, bumping up the game's score. The video game review aggregator website confirmed the move, claiming that the ratings were removed due to suspicious activity involving score manipulation.

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