Metacritic Reviews

[Dante1041]

Just curious here, but did anyone else receive a refund from Square completely unbidden? I just noticed a reversal on my bank account from where I pre-ordered, however I did not request this, and have been playing the game (was playing when I got the reversal notification). I haven't seen, and cannot find, anything on the website announcing that they will be refunding due to the issues, so wondering what's going on? The launch is having issues, I can deal with that, but if they gave me the game for free because of them, that's pretty awesome.

[Livi]

Welcome to the Call of Duty era!

[Waliel]

Ignore every 0, 1, 2, 10 like I usually do and we end up at at score of 6.9 at the time of posting; 0.1 higher than the metacritic user score. I'd personally rate this game 8-8.5.

[FluffyM]

Nobody worth talking to even reads Metacritic anyway. Keeps the trash people away, fine with me.

[lenn1]

I like how people are mentioning Rift and swtor had smooth launches when they made the HUGE mistake of having too many servers. After people began to leave the starting areas, those servers became ghost towns. I quit both of those games because it took way to long to find a group at higher levels. Eventually they had to merge servers which is something I don't want this game to do down the road.

[FarzanZand]

I like how people are mentioning Rift and swtor had smooth launches when they made the HUGE mistake of having too many servers. After people began to leave the starting areas, those servers became ghost towns. I quit both of those games because it took way to long to find a group at higher levels. Eventually they had to merge servers which is something I don't want this game to do down the road.

Indeed. SWTOR had an awful awful launch. I had to switch servers twice because they became ghost towns. I couldn't even start a dungeon due to the lack of players. Most servers had population issues the first few months. Some had about 5-10 in home town at prime time instead of 200 at other servers. :/

But once I managed to get on a server with a good population, the game was quite good.

[xDUMPWEEDx]

MMOs generally have issues at launch. It will get better, don't worry.

[KaiRune]

I hate, Hate, HATE the way people think that because MMOs have been around for a bit now that all server issues should have been ironed out. Thats like claiming we should know how to cure cancer now because we've had YEARS of practise at it :/

"WoW was horrendous at launch"

"That was 10 yrs ago n00b! They should know better!!!"

Oh, sorry I didnt realize that SE are using 10yr old server tech.

Idiots lol

In 2 weeks this will all be a memory, so if the impatient want to leave let them. They dont affect my enjoyment of the game, actually by leaving they make it a better experience because I dont have to read their bullshit posts

[Somi]

wrote my review just to up that terrible number

[Namasu]

FFXIV:ARR is also kind of getting blasted on Amazon as well...but that was expected. I wrote my own review and rating to offset some of the score just like I did with metacritic. I feel stupid for doing such a fanboy job that I would never think of doing to begin with but many of these reviews aren't even about the gameplay at all and they are just blatant Square Enix bashing just because that's the cool thing to do for the past year.

If they at least wait a week and keep going at it and still have issue with login and character creation then that's I wouldn't mind if FF14's score plummet to a 1 at that point. In any case, if you have time, do write an honest review and rating based on gameplay and not some temporary technical issue that every MMO faces.