Metacritic Reviews

[ZohnoReecho]

Metacritic is the last place you have to go to define your buying choices.
Most reviewers cried out that they were locked out. What's the point in making you login if then the server will crash? So that you can whine from "inside" that stuff isn't working until another emergency maintenance?
They are going to fix it. No company that provides a service is happy seeing its own product give issues and not working as intended.
Most people should put themselves in the shoes of the team members before spitting stupid comments.

[kurokawa]

The game is excellent.

Server issues and login at launch should have no impact on the review of a game.

That'd be like saying Barcelona are crap because you couldn't get through the turnstiles to see the match. Barca are excellent, 10/10, but maybe the guys who run the gates are a bit gash.

Server issues are the fault of SE and their data center operational procedures. A metacritic review for SE for their handling of launch? Maybe a 5/10 at best.

However, review the game for what it is. A masterpiece in my opinion. Worthy of a 10 any day.

[Issac]

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.

For all the 0's you see that come with reviews pertaining to connection issues, hit report and select "Topics outside of the product/feature scope."

Metacritic scores the quality of the game, not the initial staggerings of a launch. They're out of scope of the spirit of metacritic.

[jn2002dk]

For all the 0's you see that come with reviews pertaining to connection issues, hit report and select "Topics outside of the product/feature scope."

Metacritic scores the quality of the game, not the initial staggerings of a launch. They're out of scope of the spirit of metacritic.

So when critics reviewed SimCity and deducted points for the server issues they were out of scope too?

Sure...

[lilan]

well considering the comments and negative review MC still shows 7.4 not bad

[Zuhra]

Wait a minute.... Paying for something and expecting it to work is considered being "self entitled". I guess in the white Knight dictionary it may be so but for the real world it doesn't work that way.

The main difference is its an mmo. Name me 1 that has worked problem free on day one of launch.
Considering people are getting 33 days free (Early access clearly not counting), these so called "fans" are complaining about something that was almost garenteed to happen. The game got good, it got popular..it got REALLY popular. Now factor in the amount of publicity it has, the amount of 1.0 players AND the amount of selfish asshats who refuse to log off when they go to work, out or to bed.

And there you have it, my comment stands.

[DeceptionsWrath]

Well considering alot of people can't even get ON to play it... How could you give this a positive score? And we're not expecting a flawless launch, but being locked out of the game completely? Yeah... Way to run a business. Do you think SE would cut any slack on paying them? What if my sub runs out @ some point, will they take an "I'm sorry" as a few days payment? Highly doubt they'd accept an "I'm sorry" and be happy with it. I paid 80$ for a game i have to WAIT to play. Or play when i'd normally be sleeping. So yeah, no game means a 0 from me as well.

[Taika]

Well considering alot of people can't even get ON to play it... How could you give this a positive score?

If you haven't even experienced the game at all, how can you score it in any way?

Just wait until you get to experience the game and then review it when you actually know what you are reviewing. Surely a game is about more than just server queues and errors? I'm not saying this is something you can't take in consideration but to reduce the whole game to just that is just silly.

[Droughboi]

The main difference is its an mmo. Name me 1 that has worked problem free on day one of launch.
Considering people are getting 33 days free (Early access clearly not counting), these so called "fans" are complaining about something that was almost guaranteed to happen. The game got good, it got popular..it got REALLY popular. Now factor in the amount of publicity it has, the amount of 1.0 players AND the amount of selfish asshats who refuse to log off when they go to work, out or to bed.

And there you have it, my comment stands.

"Guaranteed to happen" If that's the case... If you and many other people can come to that conclusion, then why was this not foreseen, expected, and planned on their end? That crap ain't on the box I bought. If it's happened in a bunch of other MMO's before, why wouldn't you prepare for the worse case scenario etc? Even if you didn't "think" it'd get this much publicity, there should still be precautions made to cover your ass if such situation arises. Learn from other MMO's mistakes. I don't really think there is an excuse for this specific issue. Now rating the game because you can't log-in is dumb, and people who give it a score based on that should be slapped.