/r/ffxivdiscussion: Data analysis of Dawntrail negative reviews (Steam)

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1000 hours in the game isn't necessarily a veteran player. That's about 2 months of playing all day (16 hours a day). Could easily be done during a holiday, summer break or while seeking employment.

Other games take somewhere between 6-40 hours. The MSQ of this game can be beaten in about 250-400 hours, depending on how willing you are to skip cutscenes. I'd argue that people that have played 1000 hours have seen a lot of the content in this game, and while one could argue if that makes them veterans or not, it at least shows some level of dedication to this game.

I don't think it's necessarily review bombing on Steam, but you're more likely to leave a review for a negative experience than a positive one. It's got to be extraordinarily positive (to the point of changing your view on life or something like that) to motivate you to leave a positive one usually, which to be fair, much of the story does motivate people to want to go out of their way to praise it for that, which probably explains why there are positive reviews at all.

Considering the reviews of the other expansions, which were much more favorable, I'm gonna say "Of all the takes you did, this is one of them."

The story in Dawntrail may not be for everyone but it's just one expansion. I don't get the people acting like it's the end of the world because one expansion didn't hit for them.

I don't get why you say this is people acting like the end of the world? This is just an analysis of the general opinion of the game based on public feedback. Dawntrail has its issues, especially when comparing it to the other expansions.

People have paid for a product and are entitled to an opinion. There are people that act like people disliking the current state of the game are a minority, and this post can just be taken as partial proof that the negative voices are not just naysayers, reviewbombers, Wuk Lamat haters, and "a loud but vocal minority".