FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

[RabendaShin]

Ah, the scored dipped below 6 for a good while, and now magically a 100 good reviews have reappeared. Dawntrail appears to be very divisive.

[genuine_stranger]

Ah, the scored dipped below 6 for a good while, and now magically a 100 good reviews have reappeared. Dawntrail appears to be very divisive.

The story is written poorly, some still enjoy it but can't accept it that the writing is not praised as much as they would like. The fights have been universally praised as far as I could see.

That's mostly the whole debacle.

[Swordsman]

Added 7 more critic reviews, updated Metascore and User Score.

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.

I kinda wonder if Metacritic uses a system where user ratings are automatically held if they exceed a certain number of ratings in a given timeframe and then an actual employee has to manually review the ratings to see what's legit and what's not.

[Tullius]

Ah, the scored dipped below 6 for a good while, and now magically a 100 good reviews have reappeared. Dawntrail appears to be very divisive.

While there is a minor problem with some people being unable to articulate their feelings, and unable to provide an honest review score that coincides with their criticisms, the unfortunate reality is that review aggregators often run interference for these media companies. They have a history of manipulating review scores of both games and movies.

[OliverQ]

I could actually see myself replaying Dawntrail in its entirety just to pore back over this adventure and look for missed details and re-experience the highs and lows. That’s a first for me, nearly a thousand hours in.

It's really hard to take reviews like this seriously. I have like 6 alts. I've played up through ShB like 4 or 5 times and never get tired of it, and have done Endwalker 3, almost 4 times. DT is the only expansion I have really no desire to do again on my alts, especially the 1st half. I can tolerate the 2nd half.

[Isala]

It's really hard to take reviews like this seriously. I have like 6 alts. I've played up through ShB like 4 or 5 times and never get tired of it, and have done Endwalker 3, almost 4 times. DT is the only expansion I have really no desire to do again on my alts, especially the 1st half. I can tolerate the 2nd half.

Really feels like the usual "We got paid for this review" jargon, doesn't it?

[Verathel]

It's really hard to take reviews like this seriously. I have like 6 alts. I've played up through ShB like 4 or 5 times and never get tired of it, and have done Endwalker 3, almost 4 times. DT is the only expansion I have really no desire to do again on my alts, especially the 1st half. I can tolerate the 2nd half.

Yep and will 100 percent skip the cutscenes when I do it again on an alt and never did it for any expansion beforehand from Heavensward to Endwalker.

[HighlanderClone]

Added 7 more critic reviews, updated Metascore and User Score.




I kinda wonder if Metacritic uses a system where user ratings are automatically held if they exceed a certain number of ratings in a given timeframe and then an actual employee has to manually review the ratings to see what's legit and what's not.

Well it is the same company that owns Fandom.com so I can easily see them doing this stupidly.

[AnimaAnimus]

It's really hard to take reviews like this seriously. I have like 6 alts. I've played up through ShB like 4 or 5 times and never get tired of it, and have done Endwalker 3, almost 4 times. DT is the only expansion I have really no desire to do again on my alts, especially the 1st half. I can tolerate the 2nd half.

Between places like Twitter that encourage even non players to go and review a product positively or negatively and the fact that corperations pay review sites for good reviews I don't even bother to look at them anymore. At this point they are there for the investors, not the customers or the potential customers. So I judge a product on my own experiences. And when it comes to DT all I have to say...

I have been here since the beginning, I have 5 characters and each and every expac I go through the story at least 3 times before the big influx of content, then level my other 2 through it when I have down time but always have them through the .0 msq before .1 drops. The expac however, instead of doing the story on my alts, I went back and started a new character on WoW in the Pandarian remix so I have it ready for the War Within. I never thought, in the past 14 years I have been playing this game, that I would ever prefer spending time in WoW over FFXIV becausee WoW had the more engaging game (and to be quite frank the more engaging and welcoming community)

[Turtledeluxe]

Still sitting at an 80. IGN dropped an 8. I foresee it hitting 882 or 83 tops at this point. The lowest rated xpac.

And deserved imo. It was an xpac I finished in spite of its flaws.