FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

[HighlanderClone]

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.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

There have been people arguing with me that the only thing they deleted were transphobic/culture war/Sweet Baby BS.

Oh, I'm so going to enjoy pushing this in their face.

[KageTokage]

Well, apparently Metacritic just purged a ton of zero substance positive reviews because they seemingly realized it was a bad look to only be giving that treatment to the negative ones.

[RabendaShin]

Well, apparently Metacritic just purged a ton of zero substance positive reviews because they seemingly realized it was a bad look to only be giving that treatment to the negative ones.

That's what strikes me as odd - the 0/10 reviews with proper critique only get posted as 0/10 (rather than the 5/10 they actually are) because leaving anything higer than 0 is not an effective way of conveying discontent with the expansion. There are too many blindly loyal fans just posting "10/10 loved it".

A 5 and a 10 still rounds to 7.5, something the expansion in my opinion isn't supposed to be scored at, and so the average score is inherently skewed.

And then the actual criticism gets drowned out by the people posting 10/10 just to spite the people posting negative reviews, because (according to them) you are not allowed to be critical of something you enjoyed playing before. This only increases the amount of polarising reviews and perceived bad actors. It's a sad cycle.

[HighlanderClone]

Well, apparently Metacritic just purged a ton of zero substance positive reviews because they seemingly realized it was a bad look to only be giving that treatment to the negative ones.

Frankly they should just filter all reviews with a NLP model, you either write it with substance or your review gets cut. We have the tech, CS majors literally are capable of doing this as an intern after their first year, there are so many NLP packages on Python and Python is a braindead language every first year learns nowadays.

This isn't a hard problem to solve, I hope they are not seriously doing this with manual labor.

[DaveFishnomer]

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.

It is now a 5.4

[AnotherHighlander]

It is now a 5.4

They apparently deleted a bunch of the positive spammy 10/10 reviews rofl.

[Amh_Wilzuun]

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.

I never once even close to implied that there was a conspiracy like that and I never stated it was a 100 ever. Complete straw man arguments yet no one is being rude to this guy.... this thread sucks. I hate it here

[Amh_Wilzuun]

Also you argued that the score will barely raise yet it has now risen from an 76 to a 81 after just a few more reviews. Which is 5 whole points. How does this not go against your entire argument that the score would stay around where it was?

[Karious]

Square Enix's strongest warrior.

[Amh_Wilzuun]

Square Enix's strongest warrior.

I spent all of endwalker on here criticizing this game (Island sanctuary, job design, lack of content, etc). Some of us aren't extreme in either direction. You don't know crap about me pal. I'm seeing some of you people here who have been especially flagrant in multiple other threads quote replying people who like the expac to start an argument. And these anti-DT signatures I'm seeing are absolutely mega cringe.