FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

Update: Steam score and Metacritic User Score drop.

Update: Steam score and Metacritic User Score dropped again. However, Critic Score rose by a point.

Unsarcastically: Thank you for the updates. Appreciated.

It's also interesting that quite a few Steam "thumbs up" reviews are not really positive in the descriptions. I wonder what the numbers would look like if given a 1-10 or positive/neutral/negative option.

I hope that this is a reminder that XIV isn't untouchable. We need them to bring their A-team writers and actors, and hire more if their team is spread too thin.

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Originally Posted by Sivante

Unsarcastically: Thank you for the updates. Appreciated.

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No problem at all. This data needs to be made widely known as it's one of the several ways the players can voice their discontent.

It's common practice for companies to pay millions to journalists and PR companies that run bot accounts for good reviews, or to delete, censor or shadowban bad reviews. Its not illegal or anything.

No question a giant like square enix does the same. Its just a part of the marketing budget.

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Originally Posted by Wildheaven182

It's common practice for companies to pay millions to journalists and PR companies that run bot accounts for good reviews, or to delete, censor or shadowban bad reviews. Its not illegal or anything.

No question a giant like square enix does the same. Its just a part of the marketing budget.

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Oh, absolutely. Which makes the fact that they've been doing all this damage control, and are still getting dunked on, even more delicious.

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Originally Posted by Swordsman

And the User Scores for all other expansions:

EW: 8.9
ShB: 9.1
SB: 9.0
HW: 8.7
ARR: 7.8

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Oooh, so my favorite expansion Stormblood really isn't as bad as the whiners say. :D

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Originally Posted by Swordsman

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Jul 9, 2024
I could actually see myself replaying Dawntrail in its entirety just to pore back over this adventure and look for missed details and re-experience the highs and lows. That’s a first for me, nearly a thousand hours in.

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Whoever wrote this article is clearly a masochist. Replaying DT in it's entirety...the thought alone is scary.