Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
As a single play through story game this is an 8/10, as a game as a live service this game is a 3/10. Categorically awful to play year round and pay the sub the whole time.
While I agree with it being maybe a 3/10 as a subscription mmo/live service game, at least since quite some time, I have to disagree with it being an 8/10 as a single player story game.

Because if I were to treat it as a single player story-focused game then I would inevitably have to compare it with other AAA single player games and compared to those it often also falls woefully short, mostly due to the gameplay that the MSQ offers but especially when it comes to story presentation. Even if I were to go as far as to only compare it to story-focused single player games from around 2013 when ARR released.
As a single player game it simply gets dragged down by it's mmorpg design.