FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

[Red-thunder]

eh, you can call me a big softie cause I usually don't enjoy dunking on people. I'd rather keep dunking on CS3 and holding them accountable for their shit decisions and products.

Now that the story stopped distracting the masses from the rest of the product it at least makes people aware of the product they are being sold. Seeing how the perception of CS3 and Yoshi-PR as a "benevolent developer" has flipped for many, with people finally opening their eyes to the slop to the point of the ffxiv subreddit even openly being critical is very satisfying though.

That's why the white knights have become ever more unhinged just like the comment above me.

[Maltothoris]

You're talking as if you've been on these forums for years but it says you joined Feb 2025. I'm confused, how could this be??

It depends on which they decided to create the account. Take me for example. I got the game in Feb of 2014 according to my achievements but I didn't create my account until July of 2015.

[chip793]

I'd sooner trust a starving lion to not rip me apart over journo scores for anything so much as media-tangental.

[Swordsman]

Back for the free login campaign, it's been a minute.

Score Update: Steam reviews in the last 30 days fell to 27% (Mostly Negative).

Overall Steam reviews have fallen to 49% (Mixed).

I'm aware that something happened in the past few days that may have affected steam scores, but I'll have to do some reading on the forums and the ffxivdiscussion subreddit to see exactly what happened.

[SuperZay]

Score Update: Steam reviews in the last 30 days fell to 27% (Mostly Negative).

Overall Steam reviews have fallen to 49% (Mixed).

Fully deserved.

[Eorinn]

I gave a negative review personally cause its unacceptable that the servers are still locked after a year. It was supposed to be a temporary thing.

[PaulusHamsteru]

I gave a negative review personally cause its unacceptable that the servers are still locked after a year. It was supposed to be a temporary thing.

I'd probably do it too if I had the game on steam. The servers being locked after all this time is some bullsh*t. I don't RP or w/e, I just want to check the prices on different servers/data centers and can't because of the stupid server lock.

[Swordsman]

Fully deserved.

Not sure if your comment was in relation to the mod that got banned recently, but if it was, yeahhh... Did some reading into the third party mod that got banned. That honestly sucks for players who used the mod. I've never used the mod myself but I can still sympathize because it seemed like a good way for players to enhance their gaming experience and to make things interesting. Like why upset the playerbase even more, especially when SE even admits the game is struggling? I guess we will see in the future if this comes back to bite them.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Fully deserved.

Nope it's totally pathetic to write a review about something that isn't even in the game, just to try and ruin the games reputation. I hope out of spite they go for the base mods :P

[ViinaS]

Not sure if your comment was in relation to the mod that got banned recently, but if it was, yeahhh... Did some reading into the third party mod that got banned. That honestly sucks for players who used the mod. I've never used the mod myself but I can still sympathize because it seemed like a good way for players to enhance their gaming experience and to make things interesting. Like why upset the playerbase even more, especially when SE even admits the game is struggling? I guess we will see in the future if this comes back to bite them.

I can say I had an eye on the DT section on Steam.
The "recent reviews" have been Mostly Negative for months now.
The total score had been slowly slipping, from 52, to 51, to 50 and now finally to 49%.

There are a bit more reviews this months compared to the last ones (130 this month, average was 70 to 90 each month).
So, yeah there are a bit more this month, but the trend is the same. (right now 27% positive reviews this month, when on average over the last months it was like 30% to 35%)

But what does it even matter with the reviews in that section.
DT sucks according to reviews. For at leats half a year those numbers were similar, now only with a few extra ones.
Not like that would improve when the people are done with their reviews caused by Mare being shot down.

More negative ones will follow. I have subbed for 7.3 on release and not even a month later I was done with what it offered, now I just log in to do dailies if I can bother and... am unlikely to pay for another month of sub. For me, who did the things I wanted of old content already it's another content drought, weeks after the brand new patch...

The only thing now is sub to not lose my house and when a patch drops for one month...
I'll do that till 8.0, depending on if they salvage or continue like this will decide if FFXIV remains installed or not.