UNFAIR game review comparison

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Let’s compare the 3 most helpful reviews on Metacritic by each of the categories:

Positive 8/10

Mixed 7/10

Negative 0/10

What we can see here that the so-scalled “white knight” has provided the most well-rounded review of the game, praising its positive sides while acknowledging the negatives and the potential for improvement.

The mixed review, while short, has a valid criticism of patch 1.1.

The negative review, on the other hand, is a tantrum by an angry “black knight” with no constructive feedback whatsoever.

The next time you bash “white knights” please remember that they’re the only ones providing actual constructive criticism instead of hopping on the “D4 bad” bandwagon.

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That’s not a white knight… that’s someone who sees the issues but still enjoys the game enough to play it with those issues and sees that work is being made to remedy things. A white knight claims the game is amazing and ignores faults.

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the white knigths are a joke get a life kids

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I feel like the white knight is making a number of false statements:

Some systems are already stated to be more than 3 months out, such as leaderboards, other issues players have reported on have been acknowledged but not indicated as to whether fixing them was possible or a timeline (such as zooming out)

We already know that the game is not going to be “polished and great” within 3 months.

I’m as hopeful as they are, but this is pretty misleading.

The black knight has no constructive feedback and is only screaming, while the white one is ignoring the actual timeline laid out for the game and making false statements.

It’s kind of odd that they’re rated as being highly helpful. Screaming doesn’t help. Neither does pretending that the game is around the corner from being perfect. Both the white knight and the black knight in your example are actually being kind of unhelpful.

Why are they rated as being helpful then?

Conclusion? We like to jump on alike viewpoints and support them ^^

I’m going paddleboarding today!

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Could u do a fair review of all the other 4600 user reviews, score them according to your well-roundedness index and come back to us the final turnout?

edit: how much would this get on ur index?

Good game, the only bad thing is that the game contains microtransactions. Oh well… game’s nowadays…

This was a review that gave 8/10. It has waaaaaay fewer words than the 0/10 one u quoted. It certainly looks like any review 8/10 can’t be trusted now because of this one example.

by making this comment, I risked getting banned again. Still I say what has to be said

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Raing something 8/10 that is not complete… that is madness, if you buy a car and only get the steeringwheel, engine and 2 tires… would you rate it 8/10?

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Not sure if that’s your creation, but props for calling it out as such

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The negative are most likely tired of repeating themselves and just paraphrasing at this point.

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If by “well rounded” you mean gaslighting I completely agree…

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When have these dime a dozen gaming review sites EVER BEEN CORRECT?

I’ve never seen these reviews grounded in facts and real-world data at any point in my life. Why would you think they are now?

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I’m a casual player who enjoys playing a couple of weeks per season in most ARPGs and I’d give D4 a 6 if I was feeling generous.

The 8 is misinfo that could cause someone to waste 70 dollars instead of buying a better ARPG. I’d have probably called D4 an 8 if I was rating it immediately after playing the campaign the first time and hadn’t tried the T3/T4 slog.

Let me correct the first paragraph of text

The. game has much improved gotten worse with the pre-S1 patch. It is rapidly improving deteriorating. If someone wonders if it’s worth it now, it’s still not a 9 7/10 game and probably won’t be in the next year. However the developer listens ignores the player base which is now showing patch after patch and has promised fixes for critical bugs found in the beta as the main content in S2. We are getting smoother and smoother overall systems and general mechanicssignificantly more lag and rubberbanding than we had at launch and are removing entire mechanics such as renown because they annoy the users so much.

I hope to see a game worth playing past the first play of the campaign eventually, but I can’t really see that happening until at least S3 and I’d be amazed if there was enough endgame content for the more dedicated players within a year.

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eh, the guy who did the 0/10 review still made more effort than the d4 devs.

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Don’t think the OP understands what a white knight even is.

It’s not surprising though, most of the activision fanboys aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed

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No because the car would literally not function… a better analogy would be rating the car 8/10 because the power seat doesn’t adjust in ways you think it should (so riding is uncomfortable), the steering column doesn’t telescope (again ride comfort), and the suspension is too hard for your tastes (ride comfort, but due to the fact you bought a sports car).

The game functions, it is just lacking fun (ride comfort) for most people. For some people all those things are perfect…