Quote Originally Posted by Exmo View Post
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.