Guild Wars 2

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns
lmao

The score is going up. It was 3.9 earlier.

Ashen.2907:

The score is going up. It was 3.9 earlier.

will you be celebrating once it stagnates at 6, my friend ?

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

The score is going up. It was 3.9 earlier.

will you be celebrating once it stagnates at 6, my friend ?

Celebrating?

What are you talking about?

Ashen.2907:

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

The score is going up. It was 3.9 earlier.

will you be celebrating once it stagnates at 6, my friend ?

Celebrating?

What are you talking about?

this expansion was a bust, so at least the people who play the game and are not completely deluded should recognize that

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

The score is going up. It was 3.9 earlier.

will you be celebrating once it stagnates at 6, my friend ?

Celebrating?

What are you talking about?

this expansion was a bust, so at least the people who play the game and are not completely deluded should recognize that

What does that have to do with what I said or referring to me as, “celebrating?”

Ashen.2907:

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

The score is going up. It was 3.9 earlier.

will you be celebrating once it stagnates at 6, my friend ?

Celebrating?

What are you talking about?

listen bud stop being a weenie over this

this expansion was a bust, so at least the people who play the game and are not completely deluded should recognize that

What does that have to do with what I said or referring to me as, “celebrating?”

listen bud quit being a weenie over this

Seriously, nuke it to oblivion I’ve never regretted paying for anything more in my life.

And i’ve made some seriously questionable purchases.

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

The score is going up. It was 3.9 earlier.

will you be celebrating once it stagnates at 6, my friend ?

Celebrating?

What are you talking about?

listen bud stop being a weenie over this

this expansion was a bust, so at least the people who play the game and are not completely deluded should recognize that

What does that have to do with what I said or referring to me as, “celebrating?”

listen bud quit being a weenie over this

Seriously, what are you going on about?

I noted that the score is currently higher than it was a few hours ago. You know, made an accurate and honest post. Can’t say I am happy with the current trend, but I am not going to lie about it.

Personally I hope that HoT scores very low because I do not care for verticality, jumping puzzles, or general platformer style gameplay and hope that a poor score for HoT will encourage Anet to avoid emphasizing this sort of content in the future.

I’m not going to vote till I get into WvW, after I get through this ridiculous pve grind to get my Revenant Herald spec… but if I had to vote today I’d give it a 0. I’ve spent most of the day simply finding ways of getting to the hero challenges, only to find that I need some stupid mastery precursors to get the hero challenge done.

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

I’m not going to vote till I get into WvW, after I get through this ridiculous pve grind to get my Revenant Herald spec… but if I had to vote today I’d give it a 0. I’ve spent most of the day simply finding ways of getting to the hero challenges, only to find that I need some stupid mastery precursors to get the hero challenge done.

The truth… Most people are so quick to just quit and or give a bad review after playing for about 20 minutes.

Play it through then rate it.

Interesting that a good percentage of the “positive” reviews spend more time namecalling people who don’t care for the expansion than actually talking about the expansion. Seems the usual suspects found the site.

It’s funny that all of the positive reviews are blanket 10’s that do little more than admonish anyone giving a negative review. The fanboys are out in a tour de force, only there to skew the rating.

It should be a 3.9 permanently. I think that’s accurate.

I hate this expansion. I haven’t been playing this game very long, but I already have 5 level 80 chars. All leveled primarily through pvp experience books. It’s nice that I can take my characters, and go do pve or wvw(which I do quite a bit of) without having to excessively grind for gear or hero points. At least it was nice. If I like a new build using the new traits that I paid money for… now I have to grind more pve than I’ve done in my entire playing time to just get 1 spec for 1 character.

Add on to that, the new zones suck. I just want to get hero points, that’s it. To do so, however, I need to grind a lot. Then once I’ve mindlessly done events, I can jump around for 30 minutes trying to get to a hero point. Then I find out that I dropped into an area with 5 veterans and 1 champion who just 1 shot me before I can even move. Time to move on to trying to find the next hero point, only to find I need yet more grinding to even get there. Yes, I spent all day today trying to figure out this pve crap that I’ve never had to even touch before.

Thank god my girlfriend had the sense to not buy the expansion, as she’d instantly quit the game and never play again. She’s not good at jumping puzzle type things, and gets lost very very easily. I couldn’t imagine her trying to find her way around the new areas. Please just change the point requirements for the new specializations to something more reasonable like 100, or put in a pvp alternative to gain the points. I do want to have my main spec line available for when I do other things, after all I paid good money for it.

Somewhere in the Arenanet building someone had a brilliant idea. By locking character mobility, hero points, and mastery points behind gated experience bars, they could make players circle the same area over and over and OVER again to make a content release seem much bigger than it actually is.

Now dont get me wrong I am having fun playing the expansion right now (a lot more than some of my other friends anyway), but if I had to objectively rate this expansion it would probably only get a 4/10 from me.

Lol I clicked on the link and it was 10 positive, 26 negative, then read 3 reviews, then refreshed it and it’s 57-52 now…

Haha I guess we now see who and how vocal the minority is.

Who trusts a rating system whose overall score is based on so many 0/10 and 10/10 reviews 3-4 days after release.

Should be the last place to look for any semblance of valid review, the demographic of players influencing that score seems pretty clear. Ragers and white knights.

There are quite a few reviews giving the expansion a 10 that don’t even discuss the actual game, but rather try to discredit any and all criticism leveled against the it. Most of these reviewers have just one review in their history; perhaps they didn’t realize we could check that…perhaps they didn’t realize how thinly veiled their white-knighting would be when they rushed to ArenaNet’s defense.

My favorite review is this one…

“Even if ithink it need improving, not-so-smart ppl using score to get theyr way needs to stop. And this 10/10 is to help that at leats in a small way. Go ANET”

That’s one’s ironic on many several levels. Objectivity, it appears, it not required to review video games on Metacritic.

fireflyry.7023:

Who trusts a rating system whose overall score is based on so many 0/10 and 10/10 reviews 3-4 days after release.

Should be the last place to look for any semblance of valid review, the demographic of players influencing that score seems pretty clear. Ragers and white knights.

Not talking about reviews, but the # of ragers who thought they were the majority.

darkace.8925:

There are quite a few reviews giving the expansion a 10 that don’t even discuss the actual game, but rather try to discredit any and all criticism leveled against the it. Most of these reviewers have just one review in their history; perhaps they didn’t realize we could check that…perhaps they didn’t realize how thinly veiled their white-knighting would be when they rushed to ArenaNet’s defense.

My favorite review is this one…

“Even if ithink it need improving, not-so-smart ppl using score to get theyr way needs to stop. And this 10/10 is to help that at leats in a small way. Go ANET”

That’s one’s ironic on many several levels. Objectivity, it appears, it not required to review video games on Metacritic.

There are many 0/10’s that are also not justified.

Eddie Mo.7169:

fireflyry.7023:

Who trusts a rating system whose overall score is based on so many 0/10 and 10/10 reviews 3-4 days after release.

Should be the last place to look for any semblance of valid review, the demographic of players influencing that score seems pretty clear. Ragers and white knights.

Not talking about reviews, but the # of ragers who thought they were the majority.

I don’t really see that as being relevant. One extreme is just as bad as the other and both are minority subjective opinion.

darkace.8925:

Objectivity, it appears, it not required to review video games on Metacritic.

^This.

I don’t know the last time I saw real reviews on metacritic as opposed to protest reviews used to “punish” companies.

darkace.8925:

There are quite a few reviews giving the expansion a 10 that don’t even discuss the actual game, but rather try to discredit any and all criticism leveled against the it. Most of these reviewers have just one review in their history; perhaps they didn’t realize we could check that…perhaps they didn’t realize how thinly veiled their white-knighting would be when they rushed to ArenaNet’s defense.

My favorite review is this one…

“Even if ithink it need improving, not-so-smart ppl using score to get theyr way needs to stop. And this 10/10 is to help that at leats in a small way. Go ANET”

That’s one’s ironic on many several levels. Objectivity, it appears, it not required to review video games on Metacritic.

Heyy, I wanted to post something similar but you beat me to it. Oh well, I’ll just post it anyway. Enjoy:

There are quite a few reviews giving the expansion a 0 that don’t even discuss the actual game, but rather try to discredit any and all praise leveled against it. Most of these reviewers have just one review in their history; perhaps they didn’t realize we could check that…perhaps they didn’t realize how thinly veiled their hate-mongering would be when they rushed to bash ArenaNet.

My favorite review is this one…

“So depressing and dull one loses interest in the new ‘content’ after say 20 mins of trying to figure out which mushroom to jump on to reach the champion you cannot fight. Soulless game that forces players to play the new ‘areas’. Problem is no one wants to play there.”

That one’s so ironic on many several levels. Objectivity, it appears, it not required to review video games on Metacritic.

And the positive reviews are now out weighing the negative by an increasingly comfortable margin, twice as many positives as negatives

fireflyry.7023:

Eddie Mo.7169:

fireflyry.7023:

Who trusts a rating system whose overall score is based on so many 0/10 and 10/10 reviews 3-4 days after release.

Should be the last place to look for any semblance of valid review, the demographic of players influencing that score seems pretty clear. Ragers and white knights.

Not talking about reviews, but the # of ragers who thought they were the majority.

I don’t really see that as being relevant. One extreme is just as bad as the other and both are minority subjective opinion.

darkace.8925:

Objectivity, it appears, it not required to review video games on Metacritic.

^This.

If matters if one side or both sides think that the one side was the majority. No we know that it isn’t the majority.

Straylight.7529:

darkace.8925:

There are quite a few reviews giving the expansion a 10 that don’t even discuss the actual game, but rather try to discredit any and all criticism leveled against the it. Most of these reviewers have just one review in their history; perhaps they didn’t realize we could check that…perhaps they didn’t realize how thinly veiled their white-knighting would be when they rushed to ArenaNet’s defense.

My favorite review is this one…

“Even if ithink it need improving, not-so-smart ppl using score to get theyr way needs to stop. And this 10/10 is to help that at leats in a small way. Go ANET”

That’s one’s ironic on many several levels. Objectivity, it appears, it not required to review video games on Metacritic.

Heyy, I wanted to post something similar but you beat me to it. Oh well, I’ll just post it anyway. Enjoy:

There are quite a few reviews giving the expansion a 0 that don’t even discuss the actual game, but rather try to discredit any and all praise leveled against it. Most of these reviewers have just one review in their history; perhaps they didn’t realize we could check that…perhaps they didn’t realize how thinly veiled their hate-mongering would be when they rushed to bash ArenaNet.

My favorite review is this one…

“So depressing and dull one loses interest in the new ‘content’ after say 20 mins of trying to figure out which mushroom to jump on to reach the champion you cannot fight. Soulless game that forces players to play the new ‘areas’. Problem is no one wants to play there.”

That one’s so ironic on many several levels. Objectivity, it appears, it not required to review video games on Metacritic.

My personal favorite is the “grind grind grind… 0/10” that’s all he wrote.

All the new numbers prove is that the pro Anet “activists” are more fanatical than the negative “activists”

There are very few honest reviews in that entire mess.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

All the new numbers prove is that the pro Anet “activists” are more fanatical than the negative “activists”

There are very few honest reviews in that entire mess.

Which is already invalidated by the current forums status.

Cuz when I want to hear the real truth about a game and is the ONLY DECIDING FACTOR if I play or not. I choose metacritic.

Eddie Mo.7169:

If matters if one side or both sides think that the one side was the majority. No we know that it isn’t the majority.

Not really.

When I first saw this score mentioned over 12 hours ago here it was around 3 or 4, now it’s up to 7. As such I don’t place merit on it or what it represents in regards to who outnumbers who.

For all we know it could be a handful of people with disposable accounts and as mentioned the “majority” of the recent 10/10 “reviews” are from first time users obviously back lashing against the initial negative responses.

Grain of salt.

Most of people who like expac are playing expac. The ones that RAGE are making whiny cry baby threads and make 1/10 score on websites. But now as we can see scores went up and continue to do so, because the amount of raging casuals is very low compared to the general player base.

Archy.1046:

Most of people who like expac are playing expac. The ones that RAGE are making whiny cry baby threads and make 1/10 score on websites. But now as we can see scores went up and continue to do so, because the amount of raging casuals is very low compared to the general player base.

So let me get this straight. When the number of negative reviews outnumber the positive, it’s because a vocal minority is the only one bothering to review the game. But when the number of positive reviews outnumbers the negative, it’s a vocal majority? Is that what you’re saying? Surely I’m just misunderstanding what it is you’re actually trying to say?

darkace.8925:

So let me get this straight. When the number of negative reviews outnumber the positive, it’s because a vocal minority is the only one bothering to review the game. But when the number of positive reviews outnumbers the negative, it’s a vocal majority? Is that what you’re saying? Surely I’m just misunderstanding what it is you’re actually trying to say?

1. When op made this topic the link had very low scores and low amount of votes. So that means the first guys who went voting were the ones that rage. I voted only an hour ago for example, because was too busy enjoying the game. Same for my friends and etc.

2. When 20 hours or so passed, the number of votes increased many times and so did the average score. Which means most of people actually enjoy HoT and the rage quitting whires are the minority.

Archy.1046:

darkace.8925:

So let me get this straight. When the number of negative reviews outnumber the positive, it’s because a vocal minority is the only one bothering to review the game. But when the number of positive reviews outnumbers the negative, it’s a vocal majority? Is that what you’re saying? Surely I’m just misunderstanding what it is you’re actually trying to say?

1. When op made this topic the link had very low scores and low amount of votes. So that means the first guys who went voting were the ones that rage. I voted only an hour ago for example, because was too busy enjoying the game. Same for my friends and etc.

2. When 20 hours or so passed, the number of votes increased many times and so did the average score. Which means most of people actually enjoy HoT and the rage quitting whires are the minority.

So I did understand you. Wow…okay then.

Yep I’ve been enjoying. Playing with my lvl 80 revenant doing the personal story getting HP along the way for my elete spec and getting experience for my mastery.

Archy.1046:

Most of people who like expac are playing expac.

Then why are the zones so empty?

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

god.2659:

Ashen.2907:

The score is going up. It was 3.9 earlier.

will you be celebrating once it stagnates at 6, my friend ?

Celebrating?

What are you talking about?

this expansion was a bust, so at least the people who play the game and are not completely deluded should recognize that

Aw but I am not deluded and I think its wonderful. :/

logan.5846:

Archy.1046:

Most of people who like expac are playing expac.

Then why are the zones so empty?

Mine arent :o

They would get a more accurate rating if they would silently cut out all 10 and 0 votes.

Aerwyna.2541:

logan.5846:

Archy.1046:

Most of people who like expac are playing expac.

Then why are the zones so empty?

Mine arent :o

Mine are.. mine are entirely dead…all the events are empty, and its not giving me the option to move maps ;-;

Dante.1763:

Aerwyna.2541:

logan.5846:

Archy.1046:

Most of people who like expac are playing expac.

Then why are the zones so empty?

Mine arent :o

Mine are.. mine are entirely dead…all the events are empty, and its not giving me the option to move maps ;-;

Aww, mine are wonderfully populated.

I wonder what thats all about :/

Aerwyna.2541:

Dante.1763:

Aerwyna.2541:

logan.5846:

Archy.1046:

Most of people who like expac are playing expac.

Then why are the zones so empty?

Mine arent :o

Mine are.. mine are entirely dead…all the events are empty, and its not giving me the option to move maps ;-;

Aww, mine are wonderfully populated.

I wonder what thats all about :/

Party me pwease so i can come to your maps then ;-; i just want the bladed chest piece xD

bLind.6278:

It’s funny that all of the positive reviews are blanket 10’s that do little more than admonish anyone giving a negative review. The fanboys are out in a tour de force, only there to skew the rating.

It should be a 3.9 permanently. I think that’s accurate.

And the 0 reviews that are out in force are generally substantive, patient, and well thought out?

Funny watching fanboys and haters square off and pretend that the other one is the bigger kitten. You’re all kittens. HoT has a lot of good (tons of quality of life, guild halls, polish, improvements to the base game such as leagues, additional content for every mode, variety ie repeatable adventures) and bad (lots of grind but not enough content to make said grind interesting, WvW map basically kills the game mode for lower tiers outside of EB, massive grindfest for one elite spec one char).

The funny thing is, both sides should be waiting to post until the fullness of the content is experienced. People forget, in addition, that this expac also includes living world updates and raids, neither of which are really here at the moment. 0s and 10s are both premature.

It went up to 7.1 (10/27/2015)

If i was to review the game, id give it a 5… BUT if the HP where different it would be an 8 or a 9….

This is childish, bombing review scores because you couldn’t read release info.

And that’s why I never trust metacritic user review// :> .

Consider the amount of kitten in the forum and stuff . It will absolutely inaccurate.

meh its like a 7.2 now, and the original game is like a 7.9 so meh

Whiners will always whine. Metacritic user reviews are always a joke. The maps are great, the events are great, the only thing that’s bothering me is the story bugging out. I rate it a solid 8.5. The Dragon Stand meta event is especially amazing.