FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

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Not sure what happened but the Metacritic User Score plummeted to 5.2 following a wave of deleted user ratings. Over 200 user ratings were deleted.

I'm not one to trust anything from Metacritic in either direction, but something to keep in mind (that journalists don't want to talk about) is that review bombing goes both ways. Depending on the product, there will be corporate simps and paid shills that will influence votes. This is why I generally stick to sites where you can't leave a review unless you actually purchased the product. Those types of reviews can still be manipulated, but to less of a degree, and that manipulation will usually drop inversely with the price of the product.

[Awkward]

I'm not one to trust anything from Metacritic in either direction, but something to keep in mind (that journalists don't want to talk about) is that review bombing goes both ways. Depending on the product, there will be corporate simps and paid shills that will influence votes. This is why I generally stick to sites where you can't leave a review unless you actually purchased the product. Those types of reviews can still be manipulated, but to less of a degree, and that manipulation will usually drop inversely with the price of the product.

I think it was just reddit and twitter countering what they perceived as review bombing funny enough even though perception for the expansion overall is more in line with the 5.2 score now that the dust has settled.