Xbox's Chief Technology Officer has just announced that the company is taking steps to improve its review distribution system. This announcement comes in the wake of a recent controversy surrounding Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, which seemingly had no official Xbox reviews at launch.
Xbox Chief Technology Officer Scott Van Vilet has just announced via a Twitter post that the company is in the process of reevaluating its review code distribution system. The Xbox CTO admits that "reviewing a game on XBOX takes too many steps today," and that press and creators should just be able to "redeem and play." This is something that the Xbox technical team is reportedly "building toward," with the first updates to the system expected to roll out soon, though it's currently unclear what these updates will look like. This statement comes two days after controversy began to brew around Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's launch reviews.
On October 26, the official Call of Duty Twitter account made a post celebrating Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's critical reception. The post highlighted the latest Call of Duty entry's Metacritic scores, stating that it earned an 89 for its PlayStation 5 version and...
