FFXIV: ARR Metacritic Scores

Currently at a solid 7.1 form user reviews. It has an overwhelmingly positive response with the exception of the "0" scores from people who couldnt log in during Early Access. I think if you discount the reviewers who couldnt log in, overall the game has good reception from the gaming community.

source: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/fi...n/user-reviews

This will swiftly plummet. Log in issues since the open beta weekend are gonna tank it's score for now.

lol ^^ simply following the link will show why it won't "plummet", there are already enough people with 0's because they couldn't handle the fact they paid 30 bucks for something that doesn't instantly work perfectly.

Metacritic user reviews are quite possibly the most useless way in the universe to assess a game's quality. Either you have people giving a game 0's because the main character's hair is the wrong color, or you have people giving it 10's even though they've never played it.

Does anybody, anywhere, take them seriously as purchasing advice?

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Originally Posted by Raze

lol ^^ simply following the link will show why it won't "plummet", there are already enough people with 0's because they couldn't handle the fact they paid 30 bucks for something that doesn't instantly work perfectly.

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I wonder, does this only apply to video games? I cant think of any other product taking money from people and NOT allowing them to use the product is kosher.
At what point does this become unacceptable? There is talk of next week new servers for the Japanese cluster. So is a week of not being able to play long enough til we can complain? Now that's best case as far as we know right now. How long should our patience be?

Instead of just rolling over and accepting that there are a lot of people that want to play this game that cannot, why not demand communication. What is wrong with asking when we are going to be able to play? Stop defending this treatment or it will always be the norm.

If I were to rate the game out of 10 so far i would give it an 8 even with the issues and lack of a response from SE.

The poor reviews that have stuff to do with the servers, not the game, are not very helpful. Just like Amazon reviews, people who focus on something that isn't part of the actual product (the game), will just not be looked at well.

Yeah, the servers are currently a problem, but they're actively working on fixing it. Heck, by next week, the servers are planning on being expanded. Obviously temporary problems for a game that works fine (the problem isn't bugs) affecting a score is pointless hate. Thankfully, a lot of people know that. And no, this isn't the same as Sim City criticism, a game that can clearly work offline and away from server reliance.

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Originally Posted by Keres

Metacritic user reviews are quite possibly the most useless way in the universe to assess a game's quality. Either you have people giving a game 0's because the main character's hair is the wrong color, or you have people giving it 10's even though they've never played it.

Does anybody, anywhere, take them seriously as purchasing advice?

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I agree but the fact is Metacritic is used by almost every major outlet for measuring a games quality. Even Steam links its games to Metacritic scores for users who are wondering if they should purchase a game or not. Maybe SE needs to get with the 20th century and let Steam market this game for them.

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Originally Posted by Celee

I wonder, does this only apply to video games? I cant think of any other product taking money from people and NOT allowing them to use the product is kosher.
At what point does this become unacceptable? There is talk of next week new servers for the Japanese cluster. So is a week of not being able to play long enough til we can complain? Now that's best case as far as we know right now. How long should our patience be?

Instead of just rolling over and accepting that there are a lot of people that want to play this game that cannot, why not demand communication. What is wrong with asking when we are going to be able to play? Stop defending this treatment or it will always be the norm.

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idk man I don't work at metacritic cool story though. looks like the game is pretty successful, does that upset you?

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Originally Posted by Welsper59

The poor reviews that have stuff to do with the servers, not the game, are not very helpful. Just like Amazon reviews, people who focus on something that isn't part of the actual product (the game), will just not be looked at well.

Yeah, the servers are currently a problem, but they're actively working on fixing it. Heck, by next week, the servers are planning on being expanded. Obviously temporary problems for a game that works fine (the problem isn't bugs) affecting a score is pointless hate. Thankfully, a lot of people know that. And no, this isn't the same as Sim City criticism, a game that can clearly work offline and away from server reliance.

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To be fair there are a lot of people who are bad at reviews. A 1/5 shouting "1017" is just as bad as a 5/5 "I love it."

no one is saying the game is not good but not having enough servers for there buyers is just plain lack of common sense.

I have to have agreements for both sides of this. Celee, you're completely right in the fact that just "letting this go", will both not fix the problem - and foster the belief that it's alright to continue the same type of non-communication.

However, from the bit that I've played of the actual game, when able to log in - albeit not much, considering my level - it's a pretty darn good game. Everything flows rather well, the scenery is amazing, and so far it doesn't seem too tedious as far as missions go.

I also have to note, Welsper59, you are I don't think correct. The only post I've seen about server expansions had to do with the Japan Data Center, not the NA/EU Data Center. I could be wrong, and misread, but I'm fairly sure that's what the post's title had on it.

People still use metacritic? MMO communities made those numbers mean nothing years ago.

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Originally Posted by Agatha_Heart

6.8 now and dropping lol by the weekend itll be down to about a 3.0 which is amazingly similar to ff14 1.0, you can say the complainers dont matter but I bet we do :P either way we shall soon find out if SE continues to do nothing but hide, which seems to be their style

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I really feel sorry for the people who go to metacritic to decide if something is going to be good before trying it. Probably the same people watching other players stream boring gameplay.

The game is an 8. The infrastructure is a 2. Both matter.

i clicked on "see this persons reviews" on those who wrote negative ones. Seems all of them almost was people who just whine, no matter what games it was :P (one possitive game, 6 games with score 0 etc xD stupid kids is what we call those)

6.8 now and dropping lol by the weekend itll be down to about a 3.0 which is amazingly similar to ff14 1.0, you can say the complainers dont matter but I bet we do :P either way we shall soon find out if SE continues to do nothing but hide, which seems to be their style

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Originally Posted by Jieddo

I agree but the fact is Metacritic is used by almost every major outlet for measuring a games quality. Even Steam links its games to Metacritic scores for users who are wondering if they should purchase a game or not.

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Metacritic critic scores. Not user reviews. That's a small but key difference ;)