Metacritic score?
Don’t forget that a happy player usually doesn’t bother to let that know.
Unhappy player will make sure everyone and his dog knows he’s unhappy.
Even tho i’m also not too happy with HoT, take the score with a grain of salt.
A bunch of trolls are spamming the metacritic site with scores of 0 and writing GRIND GRIND GRIND. If you average the actual nicely written out reviews the score is much higher.
There’s some kind of club on reddit who are deliberately spamming that site to lower the score.
Which IMO is a perfect illustration of why sites like that can’t really tell you much. It’s like the ones who assemble lists of the “best” bands, albums etc. by getting people to vote on a web page. All it really tells you is whose fan base is computer literate enough to set up the most bots to spam votes.
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
It has gone up then a lot since yesterday.
Also Metacritic is generally not considered worthwhile since people either give 0 or 10 when they review, showing they have no clue how to score a game. Virtually no game can score a 0 (except maybe Superman 64) and a 10 should be the absolute creme of the genre.
A bunch of trolls are spamming the metacritic site with scores of 10 and writing more about other players being wrong than about the expac itself. If you average out the honest reviews the score drops even more.
Metacritic is kitten.
As stated it’s either angry players spamming 0/10 or fanboys spamming 10/10. I’ll wait on some actual gaming journalists to comment.
It’s not ONLY about “grind”.
-Maps in HoT have… questionable design. I see many ppl who didnt like… “vertical map sistem”. It’s can be realy uncomfortable. Those maps are realy… chaotic. And i dont like it too.
-Many bugs (events, HP, even story line).
-We didnt got new dungeon (many ppl like dungeon and fractal. i can see many guilds who doing ONLY fractal\dungeon). It’s one of the main cores of any MMRPG – and we didnt got it!
- And yep – stupid hero-points sistem and grind.
Remove all 10/10 and 0/10 and you get somewhat “real” score.
Don’t forget that a happy player usually doesn’t bother to let that know.
Unhappy player will make sure everyone and his dog knows he’s unhappy.
Even tho i’m also not too happy with HoT, take the score with a grain of salt.
If what you say is true, every release ever made would have a low meta score, your logic is flawed. I dont agree with the reviews mind you, just saying.
Metacritic is kitten
tated it’s either angry players spamming 0/10 or fanboys spamming 10/10. I’ll wait on some actual gaming journalists to comment.
…since when have gaming journalists been reliable or neutral?
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Remove all 10/10 and 0/10 and you get somewhat “real” score.
I agree, giving it 10 is just as stupid as giving it 0.
Metacritic is kitten
tated it’s either angry players spamming 0/10 or fanboys spamming 10/10. I’ll wait on some actual gaming journalists to comment.
“gaming journalists”
Metacritic is kittentated it’s either angry players spamming 0/10 or fanboys spamming 10/10. I’ll wait on some actual gaming journalists to comment.
…since when have gaming journalists been reliable or neutral?
I’d take their critique over the player base any day of the week.
Yup to busy playing to be rating but if I would it would be 8/10
Don’t forget that a happy player usually doesn’t bother to let that know.
Unhappy player will make sure everyone and his dog knows he’s unhappy.
Even tho i’m also not too happy with HoT, take the score with a grain of salt.
If what you say is true, every release ever made would have a low meta score, your logic is flawed. I dont agree with the reviews mind you, just saying.
It’s just a minority that votes, shouldn’t even care for the score.
The only reason the score is going up now because some players are spamming 10/10 to make it look better, it was as low as a 3.0 score yesterday.
Even if the score is a 10/10, or 1/10 average, the scores are flawed as just a minority has voted, and usually 99% of them are unhappy players, they just rate a 0 or 1 without any real reason given, and a ‘’white knight’’ gives a 10, without any reason given. (A happy player remains playing, while an unhappy player wants to let people know how he feels, or just to release some salt.)
If i was having fun on HoT, i wouldn’t be browsing the forums, just an example.
Sad to see that, but not entirely a surprise.
Player expectations are through the roof, and this xpac kinda shows that. ANet made an expansion with MORE content than players had asked for and had a perfectly smooth release.
However, players are frustrated that they don’t get everything they want on day 1 and actually have to play against challenging mobs for once.
I’ve played MMOs for over 7 years and this is probably the best expansion I’ve seen. However, MMOs are a really crowded genre that are filled with players who see everything they want spread across every MMO out there who don’t understand the scope of work it takes to create hardly any of it.
The ratings tend to get better though. Most of the bad ratings that make up the current score were given within the first 72 hours after release making me question whether these people actually gave the expansion a chance at all and tried all the new additions of the three major gamemodes before slapping a 0/10 on it.
Now after some time passed the more thought-out reviews pour in. You know, from people who actually took their time to test and experience the content in more detail. You can sort the reviews/scores by date and you’ll see how the green ratings start to outnumber the red ones.