FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

[HighlanderClone]

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.

Careful there, the FF14 cultists are now coalescing around the message that people like you giving a negative review are actually all just transphobes and Metacritic is only doing its job to combat hate.

[Turtledeluxe]

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

There's no reason to assume new critic reviews will trend differently. Literally none.

Granted there's no reason to assume these 4 perfectly represent future reviews. But 60 or less scores being there means either the expansion merits average to low scoring or that one critic is just an anomaly. If only a handful of critics agree with them, the xpac stays the lowest rated. Enough 60 scores will bring it down even if the shills spam it with 100s, which it's looking like no one even has the courage to do thus far.

[Aniise]

Careful there, the FF14 cultists are now coalescing around the message that people like you giving a negative review are actually all just transphobes and Metacritic is only doing its job to combat hate.

Oh, that wouldn't even surprise me xD
I mean, if you criticize anything today, buzzwords are gonna be thrown around to delegitimize your view. Kills any kind of debate culture, really.

[Amh_Wilzuun]

There's no reason to assume new critic reviews will trend differently. Literally none.

I mean what if… the next reviews are higher lmao

[Ratikal]

Literally 1984.

Make sure your review contains the following duckspeak.
"Media literacy, mentor, vacation, low-stakes, world-building"

[ClayyLmao]

I love the reviews that are like "Erm, these ignorant chuds forget this was supposed to be a low-stakes adventure, they're just mad we didn't save the world!" As if we didn't literally save every single reflection from Sphene at the end. They are literally self reporting that they didn't even play the entire expansion before reviewing it.

[Ratikal]

Heh, I think people are realizing the removed reviews. Here is a way-back from July 9th with 705 user reviews.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240707...xiv-dawntrail/

This unfortunately, I have to say "dude, trust me". Perhaps you can cross check me with the same method above. But this morning, this was at around 640 user reviews with a score of about 7.6. Now, at the time of this writing, its back to 783 and a score of 6.9.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/fina...xiv-dawntrail/

I'm all for free speech and review-bombing. If your product is good, any review bomb would be negligible. I'm interested in hearing of something good that was review-bombed to a considerable degree to no fault of the creator (so Helldivers 2 doesn't count).

[Karious]

Critic scores have bumped it up to 80 and 81 for PS5 and PC respectively. Looks like the gaslighting that everyone loves Wookie will continue.

[Turtledeluxe]

I mean what if… the next reviews are higher lmao

Again, you are arguing that 60 to 85 scores, which are the majority of scores so far, are anomalies, based on nothing. It's far more prudent to assume we will see more scores in that range.

You seem to be arguing some kind of conspiracy theory like these websites went out of their way to rate the xpac average.

Just because you think it's a 100, in your heart, isn't evidence that critics will suddenly change course for no reason.

And this is still accurate even considering the new scores. The overall score barely raises because the scores are still divisive, as I predicted.

[Swordsman]

Added 5 new critic reviews (critic reviews from PC and all consoles will be included). Metacritic undeleted many reviews so the user rating dropped. Main post updated.