FFXIV: ARR Metacritic Scores

[Welsper59]

The poor reviews that have stuff to do with the servers, not the game, are not very helpful. Just like Amazon reviews, people who focus on something that isn't part of the actual product (the game), will just not be looked at well.

Yeah, the servers are currently a problem, but they're actively working on fixing it. Heck, by next week, the servers are planning on being expanded. Obviously temporary problems for a game that works fine (the problem isn't bugs) affecting a score is pointless hate. Thankfully, a lot of people know that. And no, this isn't the same as Sim City criticism, a game that can clearly work offline and away from server reliance.

[Zezlar]

The poor reviews that have stuff to do with the servers, not the game, are not very helpful. Just like Amazon reviews, people who focus on something that isn't part of the actual product (the game), will just not be looked at well.

Yeah, the servers are currently a problem, but they're actively working on fixing it. Heck, by next week, the servers are planning on being expanded. Obviously temporary problems for a game that works fine (the problem isn't bugs) affecting a score is pointless hate. Thankfully, a lot of people know that. And no, this isn't the same as Sim City criticism, a game that can clearly work offline and away from server reliance.

To be fair there are a lot of people who are bad at reviews. A 1/5 shouting "1017" is just as bad as a 5/5 "I love it."

[theomen]

no one is saying the game is not good but not having enough servers for there buyers is just plain lack of common sense.

[Slambo]

People still use metacritic? MMO communities made those numbers mean nothing years ago.

6.8 now and dropping lol by the weekend itll be down to about a 3.0 which is amazingly similar to ff14 1.0, you can say the complainers dont matter but I bet we do :P either way we shall soon find out if SE continues to do nothing but hide, which seems to be their style

I really feel sorry for the people who go to metacritic to decide if something is going to be good before trying it. Probably the same people watching other players stream boring gameplay.

[PastaFarian]

The game is an 8. The infrastructure is a 2. Both matter.

[Medura]

i clicked on "see this persons reviews" on those who wrote negative ones. Seems all of them almost was people who just whine, no matter what games it was :P (one possitive game, 6 games with score 0 etc xD stupid kids is what we call those)

[Agatha_Heart]

6.8 now and dropping lol by the weekend itll be down to about a 3.0 which is amazingly similar to ff14 1.0, you can say the complainers dont matter but I bet we do :P either way we shall soon find out if SE continues to do nothing but hide, which seems to be their style