FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

Metacritic have removed over 200 negative reviews now if you're wondering just how bad this is.

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Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe

User scores aside, we are looking at a rough critic score thus far. Doesn't bode well for future critic reviews. Could be the worst rated expansion for xiv ever.

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Was expecting that more critic reviews have come in after reading this comment so I checked metacritic… nope still 4

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Originally Posted by Kashou

Metacritic have removed over 200 negative reviews now if you're wondering just how bad this is.

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Maybe you should wonder how bad those reviews were
I scrolled through the user reviews yesterday, a bunch of 0/10 anti-woke review bombers.
Politically motivated reviews should be removed + a lot of them were obviously not even from ffxiv players.

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Originally Posted by Aelin_Ashryver

Really can't put much stock in the user reviews either honestly when people are rating the entire expansion a 0 for their character not having the exact same face after the graphics update. Some are also rating positively due to story but reading further it's clear they have not even finished the story given their comments.

As ever, who cares about what other people think. Try it yourself and see if you like it. Always my way with any game. If I am not sure I will like it, I look up some gameplay or if I don't want spoilers I just wait on a decent sale and play a while after launch.

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I love how this game community love to boast around that they are the best MMORPG with high rating, but the moment they start dropping just a little it become ''Who care about other opinion, you have to be a critical thinker''

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Originally Posted by GGBBM

Maybe you should wonder how bad those reviews were
I scrolled through the user reviews yesterday, a bunch of 0/10 anti-woke review bombers.
Politically motivated reviews should be removed + a lot of them were obviously not even from ffxiv players.

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Sure, a lot of the 0 reviews might be just "SBI, Square woke, Square bad!" type of comments. I won't argue that.
Mine however was a 4/10 review and not just one sentence or two, but a complete written out review in which I explained my reasoning for my rating. I read quite a bunch of those kind of reviews, some higher some lower rated than mine, with critiques that were more than justified. And many of those disappeared aswell.
So they just delete bad reviews no matter what they say, politically motivated or not.

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Originally Posted by GGBBM

Maybe you should wonder how bad those reviews were
I scrolled through the user reviews yesterday, a bunch of 0/10 anti-woke review bombers.
Politically motivated reviews should be removed + a lot of them were obviously not even from ffxiv players.

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There's nothing wrong with "review bombing" and nothing wrong with giving bad reviews for political reasons.

I can confirm they (whoever do it) delete proper detailed negative reviews, not offensife ones. The actual score would be much much lower. They however leave all empty 10/10 reviews.
I think this is unacceptable.

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Originally Posted by Aniise

7? It's way more that are gone...PC User score has gone up to 6.7 again and 100 more negative reviews are just...poof. Gone. When I try to post mine again it says 'Sorry, your review can't be submitted right now. Please try again later.'

What a joke.

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I am looking at ps5 version of it, as they default to it, hiding pc score. For it over a day ~100 negative were removed

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Originally Posted by GGBBM

Maybe you should wonder how bad those reviews were
I scrolled through the user reviews yesterday, a bunch of 0/10 anti-woke review bombers.
Politically motivated reviews should be removed + a lot of them were obviously not even from ffxiv players.

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No, I wrote a concrete 400 words full explanation, rating every part of the game from story, to the current extremes to dungeon design - deleted.
They just delete 0 scores regardless of content.

I also created a review with a different account a view days back giving it a 10/10 writing "I think this game sucks but here is a 10 just because"

To test if they delete bad reviews, that one was not deleted, shockingly.

It’s not just 0 they removed, people above were saying how they gave 4 or around and got removed.
The actual criticism is removed