mmorpg's review

[Xatsh]

Unfortunaly anyone who does not see a flaw in this review is one of the following

1) Horribly misinformed (since the reviewers information is wrong...not opinions but what was presented as fact is 100% wrong)

2) A forum troll

3) or just plain stupid


As said many times no one cares about the content... because everysingle person almost agreed that the game is deserving of a 5.1 score atm. I am a fan and I will say that is right.

It is the fact a review that is useless to readers was released days before a game changing update. and the content of it is wrong... everything they rumored is proven fact...

A review is designed to help those considering buying the game.. THE REVIEW DOES NOT REFLECT THE GAME ANYMORE! so there for it is dmging to the game without a reason.

[Joeking]

A review is designed to help those considering buying the game.. THE REVIEW DOES NOT REFLECT THE GAME ANYMORE! so there for it is dmging to the game without a reason.

Square had it coming for being a weirdo and not fitting in...

[Murugan]

I know it hurts reading those comments of other peoples experiances with the game. I do understand how you feel and that it somehow bursts your bubble of misconception that everyone loves this game. I was also living in this same dream world untill I woke up one day and tried some other games.

That's it, everyone who is still currently playing the game is doing so because they have never played another mmo...

I don't think anyone is under the impression that everyone loves the game in its current state, least of all the people who actually make the game. Hence the revamping and the massive game changing plans before they are willing to charge for it. However people who post nonconstructive insults and insinuations about the future of the game based on nothing but their biased and misinformed opinions like both the reviewer and many of the commenters, and even yourself, deserve to be called out for it. Some people call it trolling, but that label is pretty inflammatory. It's misleading though for people who look to these sites for useful information about video games and instead receive amateurs' unfiltered opinions.

Thank you for paying 0% attention to what I typed.
Not once did I say anyone loves the game.
I said that it creates a negative image of the fanbase, which in turn further damages the game's reputation. This will hinder FFXIV from becoming the success SE is working hard to make it in to.

With that type of comprehension and analytical ability she should write reviews for MMORPG.com!

[Abriael]

I have no problem with people saying the reviewer did not do their job properly.
The thing I had a problem with, and what the moderators of that site have a problem with, is the name calling and insults not relating to the review. It was like a zoo in there. There is no excuses for some of the things that were being said in there, no matter how you look at it.

This also creates a negative image of the game's fanbase and in turn, the game it self. In the end you can be blaming part of the game's lack of popularity on the players who post things like we saw in that review's comment section.

Oooh i'm so moved.

Please. The namecalling was minimal and you're massively overdramatizing it (I see a pattern here). What the 99% of people said is that the reviewer doesn't have a shred of professional integrity and that she can't do the job. Which is simply the blatant truth.

Gaming journalists like her are people that bash other people's work for a living, it only suits them well to be on the receiving end once in a while. It's also a useful learning experience (that looking at her past articles she doesn't seem to be catching on that well, which is a further problem).

The only thing there's no excuse for is seeing someone that quite obviously has ran out of argument to defend this travesty of a review warping the facts in order to paint this poor excuse for a writer as some kind of victim.

It's also absolutely laughable to try and blame the community for any kind of lack of popularity of the game. WoW has the most obnoxious community to ever appear on a MMORPG, yet the game is massively popular. Besides, the FFXIV community is quite good quality, if you exclude some rabid haters that do nothing else than spouting venom against the game and would defend anyone that bashes it to hell and back.
THAT is indeed quite shameful, but every game has it's trolls.

[Abriael]

Sadly I think its a good review and pretty accurate at this current time in the games development.

Filling up a review with massive use of negative hyperbole is the exact opposite of being accurate.

I am so sorry guys, I really am, I know the truth hurts so much and I do understand how a lot of you feel and that you want to defend the game. But dont lie to yourselfs, you know deep down that this review was almost spot on, dont pretend it wasnt. I was also in denial for many months just like many of you are now, some of us just take longer to realize it than others.
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LOL. Please. Cut the condescending tone. You're not in any position to teach any lesson here. Everyone here is in pefect control of their mental abilities. The fact that you don't like the game doesn't give you any form of high ground.

Quite the contrary, the fact that you're still here writing this kind of crap without being able to simply move on if you dislike the game so much means that the problem is on your side.

I know it hurts reading those comments of other peoples experiances with the game. I do understand how you feel and that it somehow bursts your bubble of misconception that everyone loves this game. I was also living in this same dream world untill I woke up one day and tried some other games.

So you think that anyone that likes this game does so because he doesn't play or hasn't played any other game? Talk about a "bubble of misconception" LOL.

Personally, I played almost every single major (and many minor) MMORPG released since the beta of ultima online, and plenty MUDs before that. I currently play Age of Conan, EVE Online, Forsaken World and Champions Online on top of Final Fantasy XIV. Chances are that I played and experienced more MMORPGs that you ever will in your whole life.

The same goes for many, many others that play adn appreciate this game.
Many of us like this game even more *because* we played many other games, and we know how many of them are simply clones of the same concepts rehashed over and over.

Final Fantasy XIV, with it's innovations, is a breath of fresh air in comparison.

Before giving people this silly condescending tone, you better break out of your own "bubbles of misconception", and if you're unable to, then maybe you should just move on.

Besides, we're not even reading "other peoples experiances with the game", as several elements in the review in questions clearly show that the reviewer does not have an exprience with the game, or at the very least does not have a sufficently deep one to generate a valid review of it.

[Aramyth]

lol I don't take that website seriously. They reviewed the Lord of the Rings Online expansion Seige of Mirkwood as the best expansion of that year. All it did was add 5 levels, 1 12 man raid, skirmish instances and 1 new area. Some best expansion of the year.

But meh, they weren't too far off with this review. The timing for it was bad. They waited 10 months, why not wait two more for the full year. Oh well. lol

[giftforce]

Just wait until they do a re-review at PS3 release before calling them out on their bias. Patch 1.18 will probably not be enough to shift this game from a loser to a winner, so it's kind of a non-issue and a waste of everyone's time to fixate on every minor problem with these opinion pieces they call reviews.

There is still so many unresolved and prevailing issues with this game which I am sure will remain even after patch 1.18. When the game is fixed (post ps3 release), then we can think about reviews and whether they are worthy to be posted on the internet. Patch 1.18 or no patch 1.18, the game is still substandard.

So for all the good it does ranting about the loss of journalistic integrity in today's society, you might as well not bother because the final verdict is still the same. 5.1/10

Which kind of says it all.

[Kallera]

This review was poorly timed, and the screenshots do nothing to convince me that the player was any more credible or played any longer than Gifthorse's lvl 1 Pugilist, who will also likely not play after 1.18 goes live.

Which means both of their opinions will be invalid in a matter of days, and says a lot as to the value of reviewers the website has when their timing and reviews are comparable to forum trolls; playing off major updates for hits and drama.

[Abriael]

Just wait until they do a re-review at PS3 release before calling them out on their bias. Patch 1.18 will probably not be enough to shift this game from a loser to a winner, so it's kind of a non-issue and a waste of everyone's time to fixate on every minor problem with these opinion pieces they call reviews.

There is still so many unresolved and prevailing issues with this game which I am sure will remain even after patch 1.18. When the game is fixed (post ps3 release), then we can think about reviews and whether they are worthy to be posted on the internet. Patch 1.18 or no patch 1.18, the game is still substandard.

So for all the good it does ranting about the loss of journalistic integrity in today's society, you might as well not bother because the final verdict is still the same. 5.1/10

Which kind of says it all.

Doesn't matter (and i find it massively fun that people still blabber about the score). What matters is that the review is chocked full of hyperbole (which makes it a misrepresentation of the game), and even more that the game will simply be different in two days. Better of worse is inconsequential.

Misinformation is always detrimental.

[Preypacer]

Sadly I think its a good review and pretty accurate at this current time in the games development.

I am so sorry guys, I really am, I know the truth hurts so much and I do understand how a lot of you feel and that you want to defend the game. But dont lie to yourselfs, you know deep down that this review was almost spot on, dont pretend it wasnt. I was also in denial for many months just like many of you are now, some of us just take longer to realize it than others.

Lets hope 1.18 makes things better.

I'm so sorry that you seem to have completely overlooked, ignored, or not comprehended the 30-odd pages of posts where people have explained - many times over for some people (such as Abriael) - quite specifically exactly what their issues are with the so-called review.

Here are the main issues, in bullet-form:
- Inaccurate information (ie. describing confirmed changes to game systems as "rumored")

- Gross use of hyperbole to exaggerate issues with the game, making them sound worse than they are.

- Suspicious timing for a review to be posted, given how long they waited already, and considering an important, game-changing update is only days away that will render several complaints in the review inaccurate.

Seriously, think about that. They've waited 10 months to review the game, ignoring repeat requests - entire threads worth on that site - of requests to review it. Then, suddenly, a mere 4 days before a major patch is released, they decide "Okay. The review must be posted now. We absolutely can not wait any longer"? Come on. That's suspicious by any measure.

- Evidence that the reviewer apparently spent very little time in the game and, likely, saw little more than a couple hours of gameplay (including the intro sequences) given their level in the screenshots they included, yet felt qualified to opine on content far beyond what they had actually experienced.

- Including UI as part of the "graphics" category. Aside from being absurdly misplaced, it also results in that category being given a lower score... for something that has nothing to do with graphics.

- The reviewer either didn't do their homework to keep up with the latest developments in the game, or deliberately ignored them, prior to posting their review.

I honestly don't know how you could have read pretty much even one page of this thread and have not picked up on at least a few of those bullet-points.

No one is complaining about the score. Some are saying it may have scored higher if it was more responsibly reviewed, or perhaps if they'd waited for some changes coming with 1.18 before reviewing it. No one, that I can recall in this entire thread, is upset that the game got a low score. I wonder how many more people are going to argue that strawman before it sinks in...

Also, I agree... the condescending tone in your post is really not appropriate, nor is it necessary.