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Getting ripped apart on Metacritic
Puremallace
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http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/star-wars-the-old-republic/user-reviews
Someone pissed in those reviewers Cherios because some of them are raging hard lol
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LOL yeah I saw that too. I wouldn't put too much stock in it though. There are a lot of people that feel very strongly about SWTOR in a negative way heheh.
Whether these people constitute any form of a majority has yet to be seen.
Are you team Azeroth, team Tyria, or team Jacob?
User reviews mean nothing on metacritic.
User reviews mean everything to a game.
"It would be awesome if you could duel your companion. Then you could solo pvp".--Thanes
Rating an MMO on release day doesn't make a lot of sense either.. Most of the zeros are probably people who gave a shot at the game during the test weekends and didn't even bother to go through their origin world..
And, as it already been stated, user rating on metacritic is like this with every major release these days.. Sad cause it could be a useful tool if people would bother using it correctly..
Exactly.
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"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
All from people who have never played the game. It's really sad that these people have so little going on in their lives, and so much hate that they have to try so hard to shit on other people's enjoyment like this. They've even going through and negatively flagging any positive reviews.
I think the problem is that your average metacritic user should be rated about 0/10 as a reviewer these days.
The negative user review displayed begins "It this was your usual aspiring MMO, I could call it quite good". Reviewer gave the game score 0/10. The reviews on metacritic.com are clearly indication of something, but I'd say that something doesn't have very much to do with game's quality.
I agree. Though i havent played SWTOR, if i wanted to and looked at reviews, i always look more towards the User reviews.
The Deep Web is sca-ry.
Same here. I look at user reviews much more than 'professional' reviews for games.
I'm kind of surprised at the reviews on Metacritic that SWToR is getting. Reading through the reviews, it seems like a lot of people didn't bother reading about the game before buying it. I'm not sure what people expected, but it wasn't what they got.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
Right because the users are typically fair in their reviews.
Posting this again for emphasis. Exactly.
2.1 out of 10 for MW3? I'm not a COD fan at all, never have been but seriously that's just ridiculous, this is agenda not a game review.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if most of the low scores on there turns out to be from WoW players. Anytime a new mmo that comes out that threatens WoW they come out of the wood works bashing the new game. SWTOR is the first mmo that truly will give WoW a run for it's money and they cannot stand it.
Can't see how anyone can label TOR as a WoW clone. Yes it's a bit like it but it does things no other mmo does. Companions, not just pets, they help fight, they sell grey (trash) items for you so you don't have to travel all the way back to town. They go on their own missions, I believe they can craft for you, etc.
Then there's the light and dark choices that effect your characters looks. The more dark choices you pick the more evil you look.
Bet most of them giving low score has never once played it or played it only for a short amount of time.
I don't think that being open with your plans should be a free ticket out of criticism.
For example, if I told my art teacher that my painting was going to be a blatant rip-off of a Picasso piece, would she be wrong for criticizing it as being derivative?
Are you team Azeroth, team Tyria, or team Jacob?
The problem is that users have no sense of proporation. They just vote 10 for "I like it" and 0 for "I don't like it."
Are you team Azeroth, team Tyria, or team Jacob?
Exactly which is why I don't feel user reviews are any better or more informative than the professional ones.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
I rarely go by the user reviews on metacritic. People can't be relied on to make a fair and unbiased review, where as an official reviewer for a magazine will in the interests of being taken seriously. A user cares little for that. If someone just doesn't like the game they will only cover the bits they don't like, even if there were bits they didn't mind.
You also get the age old cases of people scoring a game down because they ahd trouble getting it, because it had anti-piracy measures or because they just didn't get it etc, etc.
Some user reviews will be excellent and meaningful, but of a game's user reviews you could probably discount over half for bias and being non-constructively written.
Better to be safe rather than sorry and read the critic reviews. Find a magazine/site you find you trust, either because you have similar tastes to the reviewer or because they give reviews that are long and detailed.
Or just play the game and decide yourself...I often find that's best.
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Glib self serving gloating is not a great attrribute to express Pure. Just play Rift and stop worrying about SW it will fail or succeed one way or the other and the world will keep on spinning.
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I am at work, so I need entertainment. Trion has been silent in December so I got nothing to read there. TOR is fun to watch considering i plan on playing it at the 30 day mark.
Pretty much says it all.
They are either one end or another.
In any case, I hardly think it matters. People who are going to play this game are going to play it. People who wouldn't, won't.
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Its always best to try it out your self, user reviews are too obsurd, professionals are paid and they make good conversations buti in the end the game gets a good review.
I tested the game in beta and found it not my cup of tea, however you might think its the greatest or latest poop in the market.
So try it your self and see how it goes.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan-
How about actually working? works for me but I'm home now so the SW:TOR entertaining shall begin in a while.
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You can get a pretty good idea of what a game is like from user reviews, so I always read them.
Nothing beats hands on experience, though.
the best part is how the negative reviews talk about the game, while most of the positive reviews are reviewing the negative reviews. I dont know if there is any significance to that; I just thought it was a funny observation.
Anyone slightly intellignet can see that the vast majority of the bad writes ups are nothing but subjective content.
It's a shame that any random internet user can express their "opinion" no matter how subjective, and have it affect scores that only average numbers regarding the votes.
No filter on the malacious, biased, or just plaing entitled and stupid. Folks that like the game are playing it and outweigh the number of reviews/opinions period.
If you look at the reviews, many of them come off as people who didn't think the game was going to share anything in common with any other MMORPG at all. Maybe because it was Bioware + Star Wars...I don't know. They certainly didn't expect the game to have any common ground with World of Warcraft (or EQ2, etc., etc.)
I totally understand people have opinions, but it just seems kind of silly to buy something sight unseen, and then be surprised that it's not what you expected it to be. It's even sillier to be angry that it doesn't resemble a game that's being shutdown because it didn't make enough money or that it shares common ground with a game that's made more money than any other game in the history of the genre.
Your analogy assumes that SWToR is a blatant rip off of World of Warcraft, rather than a game that uses game mechanics common to the genre.
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I don't agree or disagree with the reviews...they are opinions of people who bought the game,so they can't be wrong. It will be interesting to watch the review numbers as time goes on though.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.