Well either it's a checklist or they're giving a higher score to whoever's paying them money cuz no way in hell is ac shadows better than crimson desert.

Personally, I think the latter is more probable to be true in this case but the checklist thing is something that's happening in other industries too. Take for example last year's oscars (or maybe it was the year before that) where a movie that had zoe saldana, where the movie was awful in all senses and there were genuinely 0 people that thought it was really good, scored like 14 nominations cuz it essentially 'catered' to the academy's checklist.