FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

[Exmo]

I love the way you think.

I would not eat at a restaurant with a 53% positive rating though.

Thanks! Videogames are not restaurants though. It's not like steam reviews mean Dawntrail is 53% good, that's not how it works. If I was curious about a game that I heard was devisive and learned most people liked it, I'd be encouraged to play it.

[yesnt]

Thanks! Videogames are not restaurants though. It's not like steam reviews mean Dawntrail is 53% good, that's not how it works. If I was curious about a game that I heard was devisive and learned most people liked it, I'd be encouraged to play it.

I also would not buy a game with a 53% rating if I was looking for a new game to play. Hope I cleansed your confusion.

[Exmo]

I also would not buy a game with a 53% rating if I was looking for a new game to play. Hope I cleansed your confusion.

You've gotten confused. Nobody gave Dawntrail a 53% rating. It's that most players enjoyed it. A videogame review score of 53% means something totally different than 53% of people liked it. Only the latter is true.

[SongOfTheWind]

You've gotten confused. Nobody gave Dawntrail a 53% rating. It's that most players enjoyed it. A videogame review score of 53% means something totally different than 53% of people liked it. Only the latter is true.

You have no idea how to judge player rating, do you? It’s a flop both from a publisher and developer point. No amount of copium would change that.

[CuteBucket]

You've gotten confused. Nobody gave Dawntrail a 53% rating. It's that most players enjoyed it. A videogame review score of 53% means something totally different than 53% of people liked it. Only the latter is true.

You realize that even the people who gave Dawntrail a "good" score, as in, literally any number above a 5/10 by these metrics, often talk about how they still gave it over a 50% score just because they enjoyed the battle content and still had fun in spite of the abysmal story, yeah? The PC Gamer review and other major outlets pretty much spent the whole review talking about how disappointed they were and still gave it a 7/10 because something-something games journalism blah-blah capitalism (I'm not going into that). Or they're just reactionary people assuming the only reason anyone could possible hate this expansion is because of a voice actor (it's not, that not even an issue I and most others have with the expansion).

But because some people have decided to make this an identity politics team sports thing, we have a small but loud group of people who only ever talk about this game as either "WUK LAMAT BAD" and "NUH-UH WUK LAMAT GOOD." Read some of the actual good faith reviews with a shred of nuance and thought put into it, positive or negative, and you will see that the vast majority of people (that means way over 50%, just to be clear), at minimum, did not enjoy the story this time around, but still gave it an overall positive review because they liked the fights and the graphics update.

A 53% approval rating of anything is not good. In no universe is that considered good. Not for a video game. Not for a restaurant. Not for a politician. Not for a hair salon. Not for a test score. Not for an job. Not for a review of some cheap crap of Temu. Not for satisfaction with a surgical outcome. About the only thing 53% is any good for is getting a bill passed in congress in a nation with a pretty broken political system, so I don't think that's a point in its favor either.

Enjoy your copium, I'm glad someone's having fun, I guess.

[Red-thunder]

You realize that even the people who gave Dawntrail a "good" score, as in, literally any number above a 5/10 by these metrics, often talk about how they still gave it over a 50% score just because they enjoyed the battle content and still had fun in spite of the abysmal story, yeah? The PC Gamer review and other major outlets pretty much spent the whole review talking about how disappointed they were and still gave it a 7/10 because something-something games journalism blah-blah capitalism (I'm not going into that). Or they're just reactionary people assuming the only reason anyone could possible hate this expansion is because of a voice actor (it's not, that not even an issue I and most others have with the expansion).

But because some people have decided to make this an identity politics team sports thing, we have a small but loud group of people who only ever talk about this game as either "WUK LAMAT BAD" and "NUH-UH WUK LAMAT GOOD." Read some of the actual good faith reviews with a shred of nuance and thought put into it, positive or negative, and you will see that the vast majority of people (that means way over 50%, just to be clear), at minimum, did not enjoy the story this time around, but still gave it an overall positive review because they liked the fights and the graphics update.

A 53% approval rating of anything is not good. In no universe is that considered good. Not for a video game. Not for a restaurant. Not for a politician. Not for a hair salon. Not for a test score. Not for an job. Not for a review of some cheap crap of Temu. Not for satisfaction with a surgical outcome. About the only thing 53% is any good for is getting a bill passed in congress in a nation with a pretty broken political system, so I don't think that's a point in its favor either.

Enjoy your copium, I'm glad someone's having fun, I guess.

Your earnest explanation is wasted on white knights. There's a reason why they almost never talk about the actual game and spend most of their time talking about tangential, pointless issues like how to define "most".

[yesnt]

You've gotten confused. Nobody gave Dawntrail a 53% rating. It's that most players enjoyed it. A videogame review score of 53% means something totally different than 53% of people liked it. Only the latter is true.

Okay thanks for roesplaining. I would not buy a game with a review score of 53%. It's a really bad look.

[Oizen]

According to the Oxford English Dictonary, Average is defined as " the result of adding several amounts together, finding a total, and dividing the total by the number of amounts"
53% is the average of every review across both Steam and Metacritic, making it pretty clear its the Average review score assigned by the communites that use those respective websites.

Thus Dawntrail roughly translates to a 2.5 star Resturant

[Carin-Eri]

You've gotten confused. Nobody gave Dawntrail a 53% rating. It's that most players enjoyed it. A videogame review score of 53% means something totally different than 53% of people liked it. Only the latter is true.

Sadly, it seems that many forumites take issue with the idea that anyone might have actually enjoyed Dawntrail.

[Clockworks]

Sadly, it seems that many forumites take issue with the idea that anyone might have actually enjoyed Dawntrail.

Next time you order food, order from a 2.5 rated restaurant instead of a 4.5 or 5 stars one, and come back to tell us how great it is. Some people enjoy mediocrity or tolerate bad food, that doesnt mean the food in itself is good, just that some people tolerated it for different reasons, maybe it was late and it was the only thing open, or any other reason.