The rating system is under fire because it encourages fashion over merit. It's scale is based on what I want to play and think is good right now [0]. I mentione

The rating system is under fire because it encourages fashion over merit. It's scale is based on what I want to play and think is good right now [0]. I mentioned Pandemic: Legacy because technically you cannot play it a second time (and personally I don't think I'll want to). It's a good game but I'm going to rate it highly today and probably lower once I finish it. It seems to me that the rating system on BGG is skewed towards what the community thinks is presently a good game. I think Monopoly would rate much higher if we were rating based on merit instead of opinion. I think most game enthusiasts and critics can see the importance and position Monopoly has had in gaming history. But in terms of what we like right now I don't find it very surprising that Monopoly or Checkers rank low in BGG's system. It's a system that favors novelty (over a longer term than "The Hotness" but still... flash in the pan games like P:L have been rising high, quickly, and with greater frequency) [0] https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Ratings# https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Ratings#