mmorpg's review

[Abriael]

i know you guys are really fans, but realistically, reviewing an MMO 10 months after is fair

Nope. Either you review a MMORPG game right after release (given enough time to experience the game to write about it factually), or you review it AFTER some major patches that make that review relevant.

Reviewing it ten months later out of the blue and four days before a major patch (not to mention little before other major patches that will come between the next couple months) simply means that the review will be irrelevant and inaccurate in four days.

Knowingly doing that simply shows an enormous lack of integrity on the part of the writer and the publisher behind him, giving a base to suspicion about possible ulterior motives.

MMORPG journalism is a complex affair, and timing is everything, due to the fact that patches can change games radically (even if they are not "Miracle patches", which normally don't exist, what does exist is constant and continuated work in the right directluin). Poor timing makes for poor gaming journalism.

You can do it right, or do it wrong. There's no in-between when your work is based on judging someone else's work (which is indeed a delicate job). In this case, they did it wrong.

[Quisi]

Nope. Either you review a MMORPG game right after release (given enough time to experience the game to write about it factually), or you review it AFTER some major patches that make that review relevant.

Wow I guess we have some new law here. Oh my fanboys... you gotta love them and their excuses.

[Krausus]

Wow I guess we have some new law here. Oh my fanboys... you gotta love them and their excuses.

Oh the haters... you got to love how they desperately cling onto a forum of a game they hate in hopes that everyone will agree with them because they are always right no matter what.

[Abriael]

Wow I guess we have some new law here. Oh my fanboys... you gotta love them and their excuses.

It's not a law. It's called "journalistic integrity". And yes, it should apply to gaming journalism as well.

I'm sorry if the concept of "integrity" is so alien to you. Maybe do you need me to elaborate further?