https://thethoughtfulgamer.com/2021/12/09/my-case-against-review-metrics/ Board Game Reviews, Analysis, and Strategy Fri, 10 Dec 2021 21:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://thethoughtfulgamer.com/2021/12/09/my-case-against-review-metrics/#comment-431 Fri, 10 Dec 2021 21:04:00 +0000 https://thethoughtfulgamer.com/?p=3250#comment-431 I agree with you. Reminds me of Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” So even if there was some universal metric to grade board games by that became accepted by everyone, designers would optimize for that metric and make worse games.

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