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It's an obvious exaggeration for the sake of a joke, but it has a point. The score of 60% (or its equivalent) is generally accepted as the lowest passing mark.
If we're taking school as an example, then, speaking from personal experience, getting anything lower than 40% does require writing absolutely nonsense.
It probably can be toned down a bit, as its tone does clash with most TVT articles, but I don't think it's necessary.
Edited by Veriamo
I mean, for me, the lowest passing grades has always been 50% and I definitely did manage to get less than that a few times.
I don't know if it works differently in the US or something, but in my experience, you can get below average without writing pure crap.
From my understanding it does work differently in the US, yes. Failing grades are generally 60% here, or iirc even a little higher than that.
I do think it's odd to connect that to videogames, though, as I don't think academic grading and video game scores even follow the same metric. And I have certainly seen many companies churn out poor quality games, regardless of if it's bad business sense to do so.
Four-Point Scale has this passage:
Think of just how hard it is to actually get lower than 60% on an assignment. Even if you hand in complete crap for your essay on the Punic Wars, it will be hard to get much lower than 60%. For you to get under 60%, you pretty much have to turn in something that goes beyond "not being good." Unless you forget to include the last 3 pages of your essay, and accuse Napoléon Bonaparte of engineering the Punic Wars to cause the September 11 attacks, all written in another language with ink made from cat urine, you probably did enough to avoid a score of less than 60%. Game developers that achieve this level of suck quickly go out of business, which in turns explains why games rarely ever get scores below 60%. This also explains why there are few games that get under 75%, as most game developers know that churning out sub-par products isn't good long-term business practice, and those who don't know it quickly learn the lesson.
This passage feels weird to me. Like, I don't know what kind of fucked up school whoever wrote this went to where they apparently didnt hand out fail marks unless you wrote utter nonsense.