Metacritic Reviews

[jpem]

Past research known as FFXI would say otherwise. EA and Square Enix clearly handle their games differently. One constantly makes you pay over and over again for the same game for years and the other makes Final Fantasy.

Nah, they're not that different if you look at SE's recent trends of streamlining and caring about graphics over everything else.

[Jynx]

Think about it, people are down rating a game for a TEMPORARY problem.

Wether people like it or not, temporary issue or no the game was launched in a unstable state that did not allow people to play the game they payed for.

Server stabillity issues in the first week are no issue for me but it's a dealbreaker for some and they are entitled to their opinions, you and other people who use metacritic are also entitled to the option to ignore people who do stuff like give 0 reviews. I personally find that 0 or 10 scores tend to be the least informative about the actual product itself and more of a personal upset or unbridled praise.

If you really want to take review scores as a point of purchase then go by the industry standard, ignore user reviews and focus on what the critics give it....or you know do what any rational human does and make your own decision for yourself. People have a right to be upset, and you have no real reason to refuse them their right to dislike the game because of it. I'm enjoying myself, your enjoying yourself, what's the deal?

I do my part by informing people of like opinions of the game while not all are positive, I'm sure you and thousands of others do the same. Likewise with the negative reviews as well it can't just be all unbridled praise or hate there is bound to be both and those in the middle like myself. People have opinions, I guess to quote what a wise man once said.

[Zulyish]

Giving zero score for server stability issues is beyond stupid. The development team have done a fantastic job compared to v1.0. I know, since I couldnt get myself to play for > 2 hours and was missing FFXI the whole time . With ARR, I can finally say good bye to FFXI and this feels like a worthy successor.

This does not take away from the problems that we are facing, and the reason I suspect a lot of us are posting is because we are unable to login and character creation for most (all NA when I checked) servers is locked.

[Gramul]

Please don't be dishonest to offset dishonesty.

[PandaTaru]

Please don't be dishonest to offset dishonesty.

Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.

I'd gladly try honesty but here we cannot do more than give a very good score to offset the very bad ones, and write a review to notify people who look at this score before getting the game.

[TheNeoReaper]

So I felt compelled to go on Metacritic and give this game a 10 to offset the masses of idiots giving it a 0 for server issues. (I would honestly give it a 9.5 though)

Think about it, people are down rating a game for a TEMPORARY problem.

Also the original game only had 50 positive reviews and 150 negative ones. No matter how much people complain about not being able to login on the number of good reviews will always surpass the bad ones.

Good reviews, more sales = better content for us in the future. SE was not counting on this game receiving as much traffic as it currently is.

So please relax and stop abusing the metacritic scoring system.

You'll be okay little boy. White knight ranger go.

[Kuzak]

You'll be okay little boy. White knight ranger go.

lol

Liked

[Alhanelem]

So I felt compelled to go on Metacritic and give this game a 10 to offset the masses of idiots giving it a 0 for server issues. (I would honestly give it a 9.5 though)

Think about it, people are down rating a game for a TEMPORARY problem.

Also the original game only had 50 positive reviews and 150 negative ones. No matter how much people complain about not being able to login on the number of good reviews will always surpass the bad ones.

Good reviews, more sales = better content for us in the future. SE was not counting on this game receiving as much traffic as it currently is.

So please relax and stop abusing the metacritic scoring system.

The same thing happened in Diablo III because of the server issues that game had.

[Bobo]

I think Wow had server issues for over a year after that game got released.

[kosomoto]

I think Wow had server issues for over a year after that game got released.

So because 6+ years ago another game had server troubles, the server troubles of this game are justified?

Try using that logic in a courtroom.