Metacritic Rating: the developer's explanation

[data010]

http://youtu.be/fgLGxmRyvks

[Robly18]

Hopefully this will make some of the critics take another look at the game. Who knows, they might rethink their ratings!

[Feline Entity]

Ratings are pretty much BS anyway. I bought the game and was satisfied with the unique experience. I really appreciate that he is still working on the game and thats worth far more than any number anyone wants to put on this game.

[Nasty Peep]

Originally posted by Ray Katz:

Ratings are pretty much BS anyway.

Basically. It's just some person or group of people that over the years have had their egos puffed up so much that they think their positive or negative opinions are more than opinions.
I tend to disagree with them anyway, I seem to like "bad" games more than I like "good" games.

[Robly18]

Originally posted by ♔Glass-headed Wallaby♔:

Originally posted by Ray Katz:

Ratings are pretty much BS anyway.

Basically. It's just some person or group of people that over the years have had their egos puffed up so much that they think their positive or negative opinions are more than opinions.
I tend to disagree with them anyway, I seem to like "bad" games more than I like "good" games.

Yeah, I've seen plenty a game with low ratings better than some with high ones.

Besides, it's blatantly obvious that plenty of them get bribed to give games high ratings. Just look at CoD Ghosts! It got an 8.8 out of ten! How is this possible!

[Tyler]

Daniel, awesome job standing behind your product and fighting back with humor. I had been deterred from buying this game for some time now, but that was a huge mistake on my part. I found this to be my guilty pleasure over the past week. It reminds me of the good old days of PC gaming. I love that much of the game feels open source and I can freely tinker with files without special tools. Medicore my ass, there is a ton of fun to be had... so much customization. :)

Chin up and press forward man. The fundamentail gameplay and backbone are solid, polish and bug fixes are frosting on the cake.

[Nasty Peep]

Originally posted by Drake Pryde:

Daniel, awesome job standing behind your product and fighting back with humor. I had been deterred from buying this game for some time now, but that was a huge mistake on my part. I found this to be my guilty pleasure over the past week. It reminds me of the good old days of PC gaming. I love that much of the game feels open source and I can freely tinker with files without special tools. Medicore my ass, there is a ton of fun to be had... so much customization. :)

Chin up and press forward man. The fundamentail gameplay and backbone are solid, polish and bug fixes are frosting on the cake.

Well said

[Warmarine]

Glad to see you still supporting the game despite some heavy fire from the Critics. Also you got balls to put the reviewer's quotes in the video. You already earned my respect with the game but damn that deserves more respect

[Zothen]

Originally posted by Robly18:

Hopefully this will make some of the critics take another look at the game. Who knows, they might rethink their ratings!

Data dropped the development a long time ago by simply definining the alpha state (still adding stuff) as "finished product". Imo theres nothing to rethink. Seeing this on steam looks like just another opportunity for him to grab money.

His "I fix stuff when I want and not when my customers see a need for it" -stance spoke for itself, too. Cortex Command is the first, best example of a game sold during development that didnt deliver. The exact opposite of Mount & Blade. Very, very bad business practice, no matter how much you tried to defend it.

Shame on me, that I bought the game years ago. Shame on you, Data, for a broken promise. Had a lot of potential.

[Andy]

It's pathetic to read all the comments by the rabid fanboys on here. The game deserves its low scores, because it's an unfinished, poorly prestented game. The reviews sum it up perfectly; It's a game with a ridiculous amount of potential that fails to deliver. Basically, it has a fantastic engine, but lacks proper framing. You have to make your own fun, because there is literally no gameplay to be found beyond skirmishing.

What Zothen wrote is correct. Anyone who has followed the development of this game, knows that Data has had a horrible attitude when it comes to development. He's literally said he doesn't care about the fans who have paid for and supported this game, and that he'll work on the game when he feels like it.

With all that being said, I've probably put hundreds of hours into the game over the years. I played it long before it was available on Steam, and have come back to it every two or three years. As I stated above, the game engine is fantastic. The problem is that the game lacks gameplay, beyond building and skirmishing. While that can be fun, without the framework to put the gameplay into context, there's no real goal to anything you do, and it still feels like playing around with an unfinished build. The campaign is laughable, and most of the other game modes are bare bones at best. What saves this game are the plethora of mods.

There is certainly fun to be had with the game. It's just sad that the game will never be nearly as good as it could have been.

[Andy]

It's not an insult, it's a fact.
If you defend a half-finished game, and can't see beyond your own blind fanaticism and realize that this is objectively a game that deserves a mediocre score, then I would say "pathetic fanboy" is a very apt description. The fact that you're incapable of seeing the many shortcomings this game has, and even pretend to be shocked that others do, epitomizes what fanboyism is all about.

I already stated that I've enjoyed the game and put a lot of time into it. However, as I am able to judge something by objective criteria, I can see why this is given a low score. It's called critical thinking, and relies on something more than personal preferences. I assume you refuse to reply, because you have no arguments.

[toroid]

Originally posted by lukaself:

Also, I'm pretty sure you can't just open quotation marks and stuff whatever you want in it, unless you have an actual quotation.

Is this[forums.datarealms.com] close enough?
-wtf steam? Why can't you do links properly? Here:

http://forums.datarealms.com/viewtopic.php?p=388557#p388557

Originally posted by Zothen:

Shame on you, Data, for a broken promise.

I'm fairly certain that Data never made any promises to his customers about what he does with this game. Which is unfortunate and disappointing for us, of course. (I stopped giving significant ♥♥♥♥♥ about CC a long time ago because of this, but I still like to follow the development.)

[HayJ*Maikelele<3]

Good

[dr46onfusion]

Quite frankly, without his 'team' I really don't think he'd get far with the original and older version alone.

[Nanostrike]

Frankly, the Metacritic ratings are accurate. My friend and I have had this game since late 2006 and in after all this time the game is still largely the same as it was in it's Alpha versions. It's still as buggy, unstable, and neglected by the developer as it always has been.

The developer pops back to the game every year or so to do some minor updates and make a big "Hey, this game is still active! See!?" show of it. Then he promptly abandons it again as the cash rolls in.

I don't expect this post to stay around long due to the developers previous reaction to any criticism of the game, but honestly folks, READ the metacritic reviews themselves. There's a reason it's rated so poorly and it's not because people are picking on this game.

[Jago]

thanks for taking my 20 bucks hope it helps.