I would like to point out that in TF2 achievements worked at release, you could easily get into maps/games, and flat out its just plain a great game.  Also TF2 sold in the orange box which was a freaking amazing deal.

70 is actually pretty generous for demigod.  It still has connection issues, you have the gameplits floating around, when someone rage quits they can very easily take half the game with them, favor doesn't work, it has a lot of bugs that need to be ironed out.  It still isn't acceptable release quality.

Demigod isn't a multiplayer only game.  It is a multiplayer focused game where the multiplayer has a ton of issues and the single player is pretty much non-existant.  If the multiplayer worked great, sure 9/10 would be appropriate.  Its really still a 4/10 game though.

Demigod in all honesty deserves a much lower score for the trainwreck we were given.  It is just starting to recover.  Instead of worrying about the review scores stardock/GPG need to keep making the game better and figure out how they are going to make things up to the players who they screwed over at release.  I would say reclaiming the players they drove away and repairing the community is of more importance than review score right now.

Meh, like reviews matter... I stopped reading them at least.  Most people writing them are idiots or payed off for a good review... IMHO.

I have seen some of the biggest sites out their give great reviews to some really really crappy games.

Yea i can understand it if it is like this.

So basicly the entire industry has some strange half scale rating system where halfway to the top is the worst possible score 

Interesting

Pretty much. To get below 5/10, you really need to ship a really bugged game with no story, bad graphics and horrible playability.

~9-10 = A

~8-~9 = B

~7-~8 = C

~6-~7 = D

< 6 = F

The numbers are not linear, as you can see.  It's just the way it is.  Add plusses and minuses to the grades near the end of each spectrum.

welll demigod exceeds in skirmishing in singleplayer but you have to admit that multiplayer has been bugged so its not rly a surprise.

think, if a  RTS had only good SP skirmishes but bad MP skirmishes, and it had no story. what would it get?

Agreed Kryo; the evil corporations(boo! hiss!) use their influence to push their bad game scores up; meaning the association between such games and below-80% scores is so strong.

I hate meta-critic. It has the horrible problem of working on the basis that all reviews are equally valid, that review scores are equivilent. It further gives the impression that bad games are not as bad as they are and good games are not as good as they are and that ok but well-publicised games are excessively endowed in reviews.

Fix the issue with fire-form Torch Bearer not firing while moving and Demigod is a wonder-bum game.

This is patently incorrect. Here, I fixed it for you:

Judging Demigod for its lack of SP is completely wrong. However, as a purely MP game, it really should have had expected MP perks on release - a working ranking system, clans, channels, friends, the list goes on.