Guild Wars 2

DusK.3849:

Since we’re comparing the overall reception of GW2 to D3, this is relevant:

Guild Wars 2: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/guild-wars-2
Diablo 3: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diablo-iii

Pay no attention to the critic reviews sections, that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about overall, and that includes users. Each game has enough user reviews to warrant each as an accurate sample size to gauge gamer satisfaction with each title. See the difference between the two games?

Inb4 “hurr durr Metacritic’s bad because I say so”

I have to point out that GW2 is a lot newer compared to D3.

The game progression and life cycle of both games are different as well.

The user reviews for D3 were hovering around “mostly positive” 2 weeks to a month after D3’s release date, so there might be a chance the average user review score for GW2 might meet the same trend of going downhill after some time.

Hence, it is only relevant to compare the statistics of two games at similar points of their life cycle rather than having the first game’s population mostly reached endgame, while the second game’s population still hovering around midgame content.