FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

[Starlord]

Remember, there are bitter people out there that will go out of their way to create new accounts just to Give it a low score, happens with a lot of games.

Thats why you really can't trust what others say, only your own opinion.

[Rolder50]

Huh, it was like a 8.5 user score when I checked a couple days ago. Guess people are finishing the story and seeing it's kind of bad, huh

[DiaDeem]

[angienessyo]

Several media outlets have stated on Twitter that they won't publish their reviews until the raids are released, and they are currently inclined to give high scores based on their initial impressions.

This is honestly how it should be. As someone that raids and engages with the end game, my view of an expansion has more to do with how I feel about the content. I don't skip the story or anything, I just spend way more time in the game raiding, doing stuff like criterion, Eureka, EX trials, etc.

[DaveFishnomer]

Remember, there are bitter people out there that will go out of their way to create new accounts just to Give it a low score, happens with a lot of games.

Thats why you really can't trust what others say, only your own opinion.

Yes but it goes both ways, people will sign up multiple times just to give it a score of 10, eventually these kind of things even out with some sort of bias to on side or the other but it should not be segnificant, there are courses about that in uni when learning statistics, user agency to cheat is something that is taken account in these systems.

tldr: it evens out +-.

[DaveFishnomer]

This is honestly how it should be. As someone that raids and engages with the end game, my view of an expansion has more to do with how I feel about the content. I don't skip the story or anything, I just spend way more time in the game raiding, doing stuff like criterion, Eureka, EX trials, etc.

Honestly I dont think so, most players dont do high end content, most players will remmber any xPac by its story alone not by raids or extremes

[Swordsman]

Yes but it goes both ways, people will sign up multiple times just to give it a score of 10, eventually these kind of things even out with some sort of bias to on side or the other but it should not be segnificant, there are courses about that in uni when learning statistics, user agency to cheat is something that is taken account in these systems.

tldr: it evens out +-.

Yeah, review padding, which is sometimes done by company-paid shills or overzealous fans.

[Isala]

You just activated the trap card, it's a trans person and if you say you didn't like you're automatically framed as transphobic, it's the ultimate tool for companies to shield them from criticism!

Careful, now. They'll call you phobic for daring to use the term "trap card"...

[Striker44]

Huh, it was like a 8.5 user score when I checked a couple days ago. Guess people are finishing the story and seeing it's kind of bad, huh

Or review bombing is indeed happening when the bitter cabal couldn't stand seeing that most people are in fact really enjoying the game.

[Lieri]

For whatever reason I rarely agree with the critics score. I agree more with user scores. In so many games it's like that as well. More generic and representative of actual players, I guess.