Install Steam
login
|
language
简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese)
日本語 (Japanese)
한국어 (Korean)
ไทย (Thai)
Български (Bulgarian)
Čeština (Czech)
Dansk (Danish)
Deutsch (German)
Español - España (Spanish - Spain)
Español - Latinoamérica (Spanish - Latin America)
Ελληνικά (Greek)
Français (French)
Italiano (Italian)
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
Magyar (Hungarian)
Nederlands (Dutch)
Norsk (Norwegian)
Polski (Polish)
Português (Portuguese - Portugal)
Português - Brasil (Portuguese - Brazil)
Română (Romanian)
Русский (Russian)
Suomi (Finnish)
Svenska (Swedish)
Türkçe (Turkish)
Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Українська (Ukrainian)
Report a translation problem
Discussions Rules and Guidelines
Report this post
the good it has going for it is that its simple (its easy to turn your brain off and just kill things), has loot rarity, and base building freedom.
the bad is that most days you cant play without constant kicks, major lag (ive seen 135k ping), code 01 haunting your dreams because you have to click 100 times before it lets you join, and many many other annoying bugs. NPCs didn't even show up because server congestion day 1 and that was a bug in the beta tests they conducted yet they failed to fix before EA launch.
My review of the game sits at negative. "game and all features shown are fully playable." they lied and until they can truly say the game and ALL the features they have shown are playable then my review will sit at negative.
(also if a majority of reviews play for an hour then review bad those are still valid reviews. its a game developers job to keep you entertained. Video games are entertainment. If you are losing customers within an hour you have failed to deliver something entertaining to the majority)
Completely agree with you there, I didn't want to go into details but that's what I meant by "the reviews are valid and the game is bad".
2. Leave positive review using these accounts -> better review score on datasheet
3. Advertise -> We made a blast game . Gimme money
4. Get investment
They lose 30% of investment but will get a lot in return. Thats the pattern.
Perhaps it shouldn't be taken seriously, you gave valid reasons why. But I don't totally agree with what you said either. I don't think any MMORPG studio can and have fixed anything instantly or be fully transparent about what went wrong instead of apologising and keep working as they have been or so I would assume. Communication could be better but talk is cheap and can just as easily make things worst. Nothing needs to be polished at the moment, it just need to be playable, and playable it is. Sort of.
That being said, this game is poorly optimized, bare-bone, empty, shallow and on top of all that, they actually implemented a damn P2W cash shop, lol. Anyone who supports this game, it's developers or anyone associated with this crap should have their gaming privileges revoked.
Skill issue.
Seriously though being able to login is pretty darn crucial to an MMORPG that goes without saying, but it's also one of the least important thing to review that most quickly become wrong and obsolete.
Just for the sake of argument (and take what I say with a grain of salt now and always) were we to consider refunds as a part of the equation we would have to consider the reverse too. I do believe this would drastically improve the sub-1-hour category by 50% or more, and only slighty worsen the 10-hours-plus by maybe upward to 10%.
And THAT right there is the key. Yes, the longer the playtime, the more likely the review is to be positive... because the people who had negative experiences have already quit. People who are not having a good time are not going to stick around.
Do all the negative reviews mean the game is bad? Not necessarily. But it does mean in it's current state, the game is not good. There are bugs galore and server issues. People getting banned from the Discord. Being in Early Access can excuse things only so much.
Maybe the game will get better. Maybe not. Only time will tell if the devs are willing to listen to feedback, and have the skills to fix things. But there is no denying it's off to a rough start.
I don't believe that's true.
Again just for the sake of argument (I'm not making an argument in favor of the game itself, just staying on my general topic) I went ahead and filtered 250 recent negative reviews that were in the 2 hours automatic refund windows. Out of those "only" 100 were refunded.
That's 60% of the sub-2-hours negative reviews not being refunded. Obviously one can draw whatever assumptions they want from that heavily cherry picked number out of this heavily cherry picked topic of mine. But one my own assumptions would be (unsurprisingly enough) that those 60% negative at least didn't quit so to speak, some might be waiting for the login raid boss to be nerfed safely under their refund window.
Obviously in a vacuum the game is bad right now. It's terribly bad. Right now. The reviews tell that story. But the reviews... they lie. THEY LIEEEEE.
(posted here cause that other thread is gone)
Gotta give me at least 3 tries for this one.
My objective best and the closest to a true answer to your question -> RuneScape. Launched in 2001 and an healthy population which has been growing again for the last few years.
My subjective best and most seriously played -> WoW. Enough said. The people like what they like.
My favorite, most loved and second most played -> Anarchy Online. Technically still alive but I can't imagine the player count is more than a thousand daily.
Now I feel exposed; the dirty things I'll do for points I won't even win.
Tell me the real answer or I'll cry.
Reviewers are a little less strident now.