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.

[Synthesis]

Ahah. MMORPG.com has their collective panties in a bunch about receiving criticism on this ill-advised review, it seems

Ouch , no freedom of speech ?! You didnt say anything harsh.

This alone just more convinces me, that the review was rushed out on purpose before the patch release to provide bad review at the end.

Anyway fact is the game didnt improve much with 1.15, etc. These were more over minor and major fixes with some little addons. In the end UI is still bad with flawed design, imo.

mmorpgs:

We feel we’ve waited more than long enough to give FFXIV a fair shake. Check back with us later this year for an update after those changes are live.

If they re not complete jerks, they will update the review as is told here in the future.

[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.

[Delsus]

Ouch , no freedom of speech ?! You didnt say anything harsh.

This alone just more convinces me, that the review was rushed out on purpose before the patch release to provide bad review at the end.

Anyway fact is the game didnt improve much with 1.15, etc. These were more over minor and major fixes with some little addons. In the end UI is still bad with flawed design, imo.

mmorpgs:
If they re not complete jerks, they will update the review as is told here in the future.

What I have been saying was more worthy of a ban then what Abriael said they have no integrity to me now

[Abriael]

What I have been saying was more worthy of a ban then what Abriael said they have no integrity to me now

Simply said, my arguments were too compelling and solid for them to allow me to state them further. No one likes to have their lack of integrity exposed so evidently, and it takes further integrity to accept it

It could be a nice theme for an editorial, but honestly I'm too busy actually informing my readers to waste my time further exposing an amateurish website that can't even take some solid criticism (or implement readable graphics, but that's a different matter).

I'll just re-review the game myself when the time is right (probably after this round of patches), since my editors greenlighted a regular space for MMORPG re-reviews. Now it's EVE online's turn, then Age of Conan (since they both had very relevant updates that warrant a new review). Probably around the end of september it'll be FFXIV's turn.

[Jynx]

To me it's not odd, it's suspicious. They've probably got an ulterior motive for doing so.

I doubt it, chances are they just didn't want to wait and they probably "Finished" with the play part of the review weeks if not months ago. They make no mention of any of the real updates to the system.

I think they are just lazy.

[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

[Cichy]

MMORPG is the kind of site that would review a game just before 1.18 to keep it's score low. You really think MMORPG does not get compensation for stuff like this? Well, in FFXIV's instance it isn't as great as a threat as other games. However, sites like these usually only like to keep scores high with companies that give them hand outs

and that's the truth.

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.

[Delsus]

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.

What people dont like is that it was reviewed before a potentionally game changing patch, the only logical reason is because they want the game to fail, give me another reason why it gets reviewed just before the biggest patch released?