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Originally Posted by PanicLord
Well, ratings do come into my decision about a purchase. For example if a band I really like release an album that gets slated I may decide to defer the purchase until it becomes available in bargain bins or on special offer or something.
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You never know who exactly writes the reviews and what their motivation is. There are people who always give a 5/5 (10/10) rating even if it's a crappy album because they buy everything their favorite artist puts out and there are people who grant a good album only a 1/5 rating because it does not meet their personal preferences and expectations or because of other reasons (e.g. a long-time member left the band and they feel it's "not the same" anymore). When Meat Loaf's
Rockpalast concert came out on DVD, it got only a 2-star rating on amazon.com, if I remember it correctly. When I read the reviews it turned out that the low rating had absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the performance. It primarily was due to the fact that there were only two or three reviews in total at that time and that apparently the US version is missing two songs. In the meantime, more people have reviewed the DVD and is has a 4/5 rating at the moment.
You see, those kind of ratings can be misleading and a bit unfair to the artist. Someone who did a search for "Meat Loaf" around the time the ratings for the DVD were low might just have not clicked the item at all and rather opted for having a look at the 4- and 5-star stuff instead.