Originally Posted by Baraz

When the game is released, the majority of us will need to actively up-vote the game on polling sites, as a minority will flood it with radical low votes initially. They do that for movies they hate: a few thousand guys vote 1, giving it a horrible score, and then 25K more people come along and give a fair vote.

And that's why audience ratings are a completely worthless, and not worth paying attentiont to. Still, I honestly don't think there will be enough disgrunted BG1&2 fans to make much difference, especially that I also expect that not all of them will review bomb the game out of sheer spite.