Because like I said earlier - Metacritic user scores don’t really have an impact towards positive, meaningful change. The positive reviews are just going to be there. The negative reviews are gonna be dismissed as a product of outrage culture.
If the Blizzard execs didn’t give a damn about metacritic user scores before, then you know that they don’t matter now.
0/10, 5/10, 10/10 in the end are aggregated. Who cares about individual review. No such thing as ‘review bombing’ for 0/10.
Er… ‘Who cares’ does not change the fact that 0/10 is review bombing. Its intention is to bring down the average score, regardless of its legitimacy. That’s what it is.
Blizzard refunded my $30 for the game. I couldn’t even play it because crashed so much. I won’t be getting any money back for the classic MC3 that I bought over 20 years ago. That too is now unplayable because of the forced upgrade. I will not give this company one more nickel.
No. If it leans heavily towards negative, people know something’s wrong with the positive.
You just said ‘Who cares about individual review’. Well to take that one step further, who cares about user reviews? Who are these people looking at user reviews who don’t already have an opinion about Reforged? Who are these people looking for a legitimate Metacritic Reforged score? And would they look at the overwhelming 0/10 reviews and think ‘Hmm, this is legitimate’?
And finally… why would those ‘people’ matter? The only ones who matter are the execs at Blizzard who have the power to incite change, and metacritic is not the hill they die on.
Reforged is already surrounded by bad reviews elsewhere. It doesn’t take metacritic to steer people away. ‘People’ already knew this was terrible days before the metacritic was dropped below 1. Refunds are even automated and readily available now; there is literally no need to inform ‘people’ who are interested in Reforged for what they already know.
At very beginning this suppose to bring WC3 back again.
But things turned like Nostalrius forced to play ‘official’ WoW Classic servers now.
Hm. WC3 classic owners doesnt stole it but forced to buy AND play WC3R. Only one way.
New blizz politics doesnt feel right with all of this ‘banned footage’ crap.
Copyrights, copylefts.
0/10 is fair, not only for game , for all Blizz did this days.
They’ve been announcing fixes since the 29th of Jan.
It’s already on Matt Morris’ twitter.
This statement simply reiterates the fixes that they’re already working on.
But let’s be clear - they’re not actually addressing the crux of complaints here that are beyond ‘the game doesn’t work for me 0/10’
The big things like the ‘false advertisement’ is not being addressed, it’s openly stating their intention to stick with the current campaign. Same with the graphics. They’re not going back on the TOS/EULA.
They’re going to make Reforged functional. And for that, we already know they were doing that since last week.
That’s not how reviews are supposed to work though.
It’s not supposed to be a platform to cry about how butt-hurt you are.
It’s about to discuss the good and the bad of the game to determine it’s worth in consumer consumption.
Admittedly, it is trickier to review a game like this because it’s status as a remake essentially makes it impossible not to compare it to the original. As a reviewer you have to find a balance between reviewing the game on its own merits (which is arguably very out dated now) and comparing it to the original (in which this is an inferior product in terms of multiplayer, but a superior one in terms of single player campaign).
I would agree, but your argument depends on the situation imho. If it was very split on the thoughts of the game, then i think a lot more people would say what you’re saying, but due to it being the VAST majority saying it’s bad, someone looking in isn’t going to just pin it down to ‘outrage’
Why? because not are people only seeing the poor reviews, there hearing it from news outlets gaming and none gaming, they’re hearing it from youtubers, streamers, friends, forums, Reddit, etc. I think it gets to a certain point people will go,“okay, this is actually bad” when so many outlets are saying the same thing.
imho time will tell, I’m sure many people thought nothing happen when it came to Bethesda, but they completely lost the good will of their fans and the gaming community. Blizzard is walking down that same road.
Color and shader issue is regarding ‘from the original Warcraft III’ which means it’s a fix to SD assets; namely the color disparity that was known about during beta and made it to release.
‘other features’ is ambiguous. Like I said, some of these were covered on Twitter, and we know ‘Custom Campaign’ mode is being added in, with them also acknowledging that people liked the 2018 UI. There is no clarity in this update on what features are and are not being considered.
These were things already mentioned prior to the recent metacritic news.
1- The game isn’t really as bad as people are making it out to be. Yes, it IS bad, but for the most part, it is playable. Perhaps not completely functional right now, but it can be played.
2- The reaction of 0/10 review scores is not proportional to the actual reviews. People can justify their score based on credible reasoning, but if anyone knows Reforged as a functional remake that has plenty of bugs and missing features, then reasonably the 0/10 reviews can be easily deemed outrage. 0/10 reviews are not reflective of the actual product, rather they are specifically targetting the current state of the remake.
There is context here, and that’s the ‘63%’ of critic scores too. If there is such a huge disparity between the critic scores and the user scores, then it’s not as simple as taking users word on the basis that there’s thousands of more reviews. If it’s really that bad why aren’t critics also giving 0/10’s? Does this help make user scores seem more credible?
Also with Bethesda - They lost goodwill, sure. But I bet you Doom Eternal will still sell very well despite whatever good will was lost through their other games. And that’s sort of my point here - reviews of Fallout 76 didn’t exactly go towards having Bethesda make Doom Eternal a better game, and it likely won’t keep players away from buying it either. It may for some, but I doubt it would make a large impact overall.
Same can be said of EA. They were steeped in controversy over Battlefront 2, yet Fallen Order seems to be doing fine. And I don’t think it’s because EA turned a new leaf, even if lootboxes were at the center of the issue. They ‘listened’ as far as not making another Multiplayer Star Wars experience
Actually my friend a 0/10 is perfectly legit. I’m not reviewing reforged as a total package which includes TFT. I’m reviewing what it added AND most importantly what it TOOK from this game. Especially as a classic player that didn’t even pay 30 dollars for this piece of crap. If I could give it a NEGATIVE score, I would.
