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Tom Bombadil posted...

In theory I intend to make 5 my average when grading stuff. In actuality it always winds up being 7, although maybe it evens back out if you consider that there are lots of games I haven't played, and those are likely to skew a lot lower than the games I do play.

GildedFool posted...

The reason the average game is a 7/10 is that companies don't release games in the 1-5 range, because they're not profitable.

A few truly awful games do get released every year, but the vast majority aren't so bad as to be literally unredeemably bad. This skews the mean rating of a game.

Pretty much these, you can add that even people who review games for a living don't make a huge dent in all the games released in a year and unsurprisingly they skew towards big name titles or titles with some media coverage and those games tend to be at least passable.

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