why bad ratings?

[Blitzwing]

why bad ratings?

[Zuko]

Because people actually expect Nick to make a game like BOTW, a game that costed like 120 million dollars to make. People have unrealistic standards for what kind of game Avatar needs.

Sure, Avatar does deserve a big AAA game. But it's not going to happen. These people are just stupid.

The game is serviceable. My biggest complaint is the online co-op can be very unstable.

What really pisses me off about these people though is a lot of the negative reviewers aren't even playing it. A lot of the reviews they just have 0.1 hours on record. Like they bought the game and booted it up just so they could close it immediately, leave a bad review, and refund it. They didn't even play.

The disgusting thing about this is it's not GameMill's fault at all. They did what they could with the budget they were given. Nick is at fault here. But by buying the game with the sole intent of just immediately refunding it, all these people are doing is hurting GameMill. They aren't hurting Nick. Immediately buying and refunding is how you end up getting people laid off who did nothing wrong. The people doing this should have their asses beat.

[pashkevich]

Not gonna happen though. Customer is not interested in dev's budget and/or time management problems (no matter if its devs themselves or higher standing managers). They will just burn down any chances of this game for instance to get patched properly and eventually be a very good game based on the TV series. People just want "Zelda" level game. And they want it now. Without even an attempt to remember, what was, for example, a mess The Cyberpunk on release. And that it took some time eventually to patch up the game properly. A result? Game is great (although it received, as I personally think, an unfair reward "for best support" of the year or smth, but it is still great), the community understood, that game's main problem was NOT the devs. It was extremely poor time management, which almost resulted in a disaster for devs after all. What happens here? Well...you can see. Nothing good, and it really makes me furious. I am OK with paying that cost, this game DOES deserve it. You are not? OK, damn it, refund it. But, please, DO NOT write a negative review based on less than half an hour gameplay. Your review only means that it didn't meet YOUR own expectations from the game, but it DOES NOT mean that the game is bad itself. But statistics shown for newcomers does not explain it. New people will only see "mostly negative", and clearly not all of them will investigate why. Yeah...that's the reality.

[Zuko]

Originally posted by pashkevich:

Not gonna happen though. Customer is not interested in dev's budget and/or time management problems (no matter if its devs themselves or higher standing managers). They will just burn down any chances of this game for instance to get patched properly and eventually be a very good game based on the TV series. People just want "Zelda" level game. And they want it now. Without even an attempt to remember, what was, for example, a mess The Cyberpunk on release. And that it took some time eventually to patch up the game properly. A result? Game is great (although it received, as I personally think, an unfair reward "for best support" of the year or smth, but it is still great), the community understood, that game's main problem was NOT the devs. It was extremely poor time management, which almost resulted in a disaster for devs after all. What happens here? Well...you can see. Nothing good, and it really makes me furious. I am OK with paying that cost, this game DOES deserve it. You are not? OK, damn it, refund it. But, please, DO NOT write a negative review based on less than half an hour gameplay. Your review only means that it didn't meet YOUR own expectations from the game, but it DOES NOT mean that the game is bad itself. But statistics shown for newcomers does not explain it. New people will only see "mostly negative", and clearly not all of them will investigate why. Yeah...that's the reality.

I will say, the concept of the game I enjoy, but the amount of content might not be worth $50. That is a lot of money to be fair and do think the price tag is one valid criticism. I'd say maybe $30 would be good. Or maybe more stuff to do in free mode would change my mind on that. Maybe I want to go back and play as best girl, Suki, but what is there to do? Maybe collect 2 things you missed and then it's just a level with a few scattered enemies.

[Grand Captain Speedy Dash]

Looking at the trailer, it seems like a $20 game not $50. I haven't played it so I can't speak to the actual quality but many moments of characters seeming stiff and lifeless in the trailer.

A game's expectations should correlate with the price tag, if it's a budget game then the price tag should reflect that. As far as I can tell the price tag here, warrants all the negativity.

[Parmethyst]

Yeah price point is an issue for me as well, I get that they're probably running on a budget, but when there's something like Hades existing for a better value at a better price why should I go for this with about double if not more of the price (depending on the region)? The only way I can think of justifying for the high price is because of the licensing of "Avatar" titled game but that shouldn't excuse everything else, this definitely would fare better had it's not at this price point.

[NNT Tsubajashi]

Originally posted by Zuko:

Because people actually expect Nick to make a game like BOTW, a game that costed like 120 million dollars to make. People have unrealistic standards for what kind of game Avatar needs.

Sure, Avatar does deserve a big AAA game. But it's not going to happen. These people are just stupid.

The game is serviceable. My biggest complaint is the online co-op can be very unstable.

What really pisses me off about these people though is a lot of the negative reviewers aren't even playing it. A lot of the reviews they just have 0.1 hours on record. Like they bought the game and booted it up just so they could close it immediately, leave a bad review, and refund it. They didn't even play.

The disgusting thing about this is it's not GameMill's fault at all. They did what they could with the budget they were given. Nick is at fault here. But by buying the game with the sole intent of just immediately refunding it, all these people are doing is hurting GameMill. They aren't hurting Nick. Immediately buying and refunding is how you end up getting people laid off who did nothing wrong. The people doing this should have their asses beat.

people dont expect BOTW levels of quality, especially not from a license game.
what people expect though, is a good working game, which is fun.
if you already bring BOTW in the discussion, let me ask you this:
would you rather get BOTW for 60 bucks (or 50, it actually is on sale (physical) pretty often, or that Avatar game for 50?
people would complain much less if its at 10-20 bucks, which was normal back when licensed games were pushed down our throats.
What ive also saw when playing with a friend who bought the game, was that the story wasnt even told correctly, the translations were not correct for many situations, names were wrong for some characters.

[Timmy]

Originally posted by Zuko:

Because people actually expect Nick to make a game like BOTW, a game that costed like 120 million dollars to make. People have unrealistic standards for what kind of game Avatar needs.

Sure, Avatar does deserve a big AAA game. But it's not going to happen. These people are just stupid.

The game is serviceable. My biggest complaint is the online co-op can be very unstable.

What really pisses me off about these people though is a lot of the negative reviewers aren't even playing it. A lot of the reviews they just have 0.1 hours on record. Like they bought the game and booted it up just so they could close it immediately, leave a bad review, and refund it. They didn't even play.

The disgusting thing about this is it's not GameMill's fault at all. They did what they could with the budget they were given. Nick is at fault here. But by buying the game with the sole intent of just immediately refunding it, all these people are doing is hurting GameMill. They aren't hurting Nick. Immediately buying and refunding is how you end up getting people laid off who did nothing wrong. The people doing this should have their asses beat.

They expect us to fork over 50 bones for this crap remember? Naturally with prices that high peoples expectations will rise as well. Sadly Nickelodeon doesn’t seem to care about giving this franchise the highest quality games it deserves. GameMill knew what they were puking out here, they ain’t some innocent victim like you try to portray them. GameMill should’ve told Nickelodeon to piss off with their greed instead of welcoming them with open arms.

[danktuna]

Originally posted by Zuko:

Because people actually expect Nick to make a game like BOTW, a game that costed like 120 million dollars to make. People have unrealistic standards for what kind of game Avatar needs.

Sure, Avatar does deserve a big AAA game. But it's not going to happen. These people are just stupid.

The game is serviceable. My biggest complaint is the online co-op can be very unstable.

What really pisses me off about these people though is a lot of the negative reviewers aren't even playing it. A lot of the reviews they just have 0.1 hours on record. Like they bought the game and booted it up just so they could close it immediately, leave a bad review, and refund it. They didn't even play.

The disgusting thing about this is it's not GameMill's fault at all. They did what they could with the budget they were given. Nick is at fault here. But by buying the game with the sole intent of just immediately refunding it, all these people are doing is hurting GameMill. They aren't hurting Nick. Immediately buying and refunding is how you end up getting people laid off who did nothing wrong. The people doing this should have their asses beat.

People aren't expecting a AAA game. They are expecting a game that gives them a good time for the price point. If this game wasn't $50 it would not receive as much hate. If you are charging $50 there are expectations that come with that.

[TNX.]

Have you not seen gameplay? $10 at best. They want $50...and it's not even a AAA game

[sokolowskin]

Cause this is SHOVELWARE! DON'T BUY THIS OR ANY OTHER GAME FROM GAMEMILL OR SIMILAR COMPANIES

[Dariken]

Burning Earth is the best one in my opinion, though the first one was pretty good too.

[Sparrowlicious]

Probably because we don't need *another* and *another* game that retells the entire plot in a subpar way? If I wanted to watch Atla, I'd watch Atla. It's available to stream on multiple platforms and even if it wasn't, you can get it on DVD.

Atla has a great lore with great opportunities to make an interesting game with an original story.
This ain't it chief.

[JoeCatius]

People will defend literally anything huh. This game is literally worse than any avatar game that came out before it. Like just go back and play those. They are quite cheap right now, tell the same story better, and overall give you a better experience. They are literally spitting on the fanbase with this one, STOP DEFENDING IT.

[ZIGS]

Because bad game

[Kryptuq]

Originally posted by JoeCatius:

People will defend literally anything huh. This game is literally worse than any avatar game that came out before it. Like just go back and play those. They are quite cheap right now, tell the same story better, and overall give you a better experience. They are literally spitting on the fanbase with this one, STOP DEFENDING IT.

tbh, its not bad. The PRICE is bad.
like most people already said here, 50€ is a totally joke for what they deliver to you.
Gameplay wise (im talking about COOP) its fun when i'm honest.

Good thing that Piracy exist