mmorpg's review

[WillRiker]

I think the review was fair. It still remains to be seen what the game will be like in 3 days. They very well may screw this game up even more than it already is. I am hopeful they will be true improvements, but that remains to be seen.

[Kio]

I thought the review was fair, if you take it from the point of view of your average mmo shopper's first impression. Which is exactly what it is. Although it is truly a shame that it couldn't have waited until after September when most the major overhauls should have had time to be implemented.

I expect after the one year marker, we will likely have many revisit reviews.

The way I see it, most the reviewers come into the game with high expectation of greatness, and come away with an impression of a game that still needs a bit more work.
Most the player base invested in this game all agree the game needs a bit more work and have high expectations of greatness for it in the end.

[Abriael]

I thought the review was fair.

You're right in using the past tense. It WAS fair a couple months after release. It's already fairly inaccurate now, and it will be downright irrelevant in four days. Probably absolutely misleading in a couple months.

Considering that a journalist (in any field) has the duty to do all he can not to mislead his readers, this review is a trainwreck if i ever saw one.

[Galoot]

By, the sounds of this thread, no one really looks at this site prior to purchasing the game. The review is accurate, the game has flaws...but this is what is wrong with people. How many people actually read movie reviews before going to see a film...for one your spoiling the movie and another reason...what does a 50+ year old man have to tell me about a Sci-Fi or comedy film. When my personality is completely different from theres, as well as my sense of humor or even my attention span for some of these people. To me the review if nothing other then the same posts we see on the forums day in and day out, that this game isn't living to expectations. Yet most of these people still play and still have faith...this review is nothing and if we lose people based on it, I wouldn't have wanted them to begin with. Who wants a bunch of people who think like this guy...the game will be better and it will rock. For those of you that played FFXI...it was nut and bolts before PS2 release...look at the changes someone posted on the forums...http://zeusls.llima.net/download/ffxiupdatehistory.html

[Abriael]

You're making this into some kind of Blizzard/9-11 conspiracy. The review was fairly written. The author reviewed the game for what it is. Not what it can be. Not for what the company tried to do. Not for what SE done in the past. He looked at the game objectively and based it on his experience now.

I wonder what "experience" you're talking about.

Notice that the reviewer carefully removed her own character name from the screenshots (to avoid identification), and all the screenshots are from extremely low levels (physical 2, pugilist 1).

Something tells me that not only the review has been ill conceived and published at the worst time possible, but the author didn't play the game at all, or played it much less than it was necessary to even form an opinion on the game. Reading her rants, they seem coming more from reading some forums than from actually playing the game.

Otherwise, it doesn't really make the slightest sense to publish screenshots that come only from the very beginning of the game.

I do extend the courtesy of doubt to the author though, and in fact I asked her over twitter to let us know what levels she reached in the game before writing the review.

Somehow, though, I doubt she'll reply

[Cichy]

Notice that the reviewer carefully removed her own character name from the screenshots (to avoid identification), and all the screenshots are from extremely low levels (physical 2, pugilist 1).

Something tells me that not only the review has been ill conceived and published at the worst time possible, but the author didn't play the game at all, or played it much less than it was necessary to even form an opinion on the game. Reading her rants, they seem coming more from reading some forums than from actually playing the game.

Otherwise, it doesn't really make the slightest sense to publish screenshots that come only from the very beginning of the game.

If she leveled to 50 the game would get a score of 2 instead of 5 because only than she would grasp the full failure.

[Abriael]

If she leveled to 50 the game would get a score of 2 instead of 5 because only than she would grasp the full failure.

That's your (fairly laughable) opinion.

Fact is that reviewing a game before experiencing a fair chunk of it would be just another clear signal of lack of journalistic integrity.

[Xatsh]

That's your (fairly laughable) opinion.

Fact is that reviewing a game before experiencing a fair chunk of it would be just another clear signal of lack of journalistic integrity.

Every mmo developer does this...

why you get alot of mmo with scores of 8.5+ and they end up being completely lacking in content, originality, and balance once you get more then 2 days into them. They end up being the same crap as level 1-20 all the way to endgame... and then the game just stops outside meaningless pvp.

[Abriael]

Every mmo developer does this...

why you get alot of mmo with scores of 8.5+ and they end up being completely lacking in content, originality, and balance once you get more then 2 days into them. They end up being the same crap as level 1-20 all the way to endgame... and then the game just stops outside meaningless pvp.

Oh believe me, I know. I have been writing about games (and MMORPGs) for years. A journalist can play a MMORPG only so far before having to start writing a review.

Though, there's a big, big difference between playing a MMORPG a couple weeks (which is the bare minimum a reviewer should do, without being called on clear incompetence and lack of integrity) and playing it just a few scrawny hours, as the screenshots (and the article itself) seem to indicate.

There is nothing to experience, there is no content, you are feed the same mobs, leaves, environments till 50 with a side dish of terrible UI and a wrist slitting camera controls.

Thankfully you aren't a gaming journalist (but just a random hater). The kind of completely unrealistic hyperbole you just drooled is what clearly brands a very, very poor one.

Oh wait, what's another thing that plagues this lovely article? The widespread use of hyperbole.
Clearly a job welldone

[Cichy]

That's your (fairly laughable) opinion.

Fact is that reviewing a game before experiencing a fair chunk of it would be just another clear signal of lack of journalistic integrity.

There is nothing to experience, there is no content, you are feed the same mobs, leaves, environments till 50 with a side dish of terrible UI and a wrist slitting camera controls.