Quote Originally Posted by Exmo View Post
For fun I did a super quick check for steam reviews of FFXIV

DT = 4300 reviews, slightly less than half liked it (ie 2k)
EW = 1300 reviews, most liked it
ShB = 800 reviews, most liked it

Don't you think it's odd how the count for DT is three times more than that of EW? That's such a suspicious uptick.

The fact that DT has double the number of positive reviews as EW is also notable and funny, as if people go out of their way to counter negative reviews which go out of their way to counter positive reviews. This whole thing seems manufactured as sin. I don't know how anyone can look at the state of this and think it's organic.
People are more likely to express their discontent than the other way around, it's as simple as that.

Like it or not, but Dawntrail is the first time that much people have been disappointed, that much being probably the majority of players, so it's the first time so many expressed their disappointment. And I'm not saying that the majority thought of Dawntrail as bad as a whole, that's probably not the case (it's not for me for example), but disappointed, that I'm sure of it.

Every metric is showing that, press scores at it's lowest since Realm Reborn, user scores, content creators, even reddit is no longer a place where it's nearly impossible to say anything bad about the game - a think I would have thought impossible a few months ago.

I will not pretend that there isn't some fake reviews in those user scores, but trust me as someone who is a fan of Bioware and who liked Veilguard, Dawntrail isn't even close to have been a target of "raid of false reviews for bad reasons (politics, griters & co)".

I would say even worse for Dawntrail, Steam is a proof that it's not that easy to do it, since even Veilguard that is the target of an insane amount hate is above Dawntrail in user score.