The first reviews on Metacritic for the expansion “The War Within” of the game World of Warcraft have been released. The score so far is 85.
Eurogamer: 100; TheGamer: 90; Guardian: 80; PC Gamer: 80.
thoughts?
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Dawnbreaker dungeon: 100.
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Why is Thrall not a Troll?
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Honest opinion, I never listen to reviews, especially company reviews that review games professionally. 0/10 would not recommend
Realistically though, I find it hard for them to review when we don’t have all the content. Atleast wait until we get the last chapter of story and the first Raid.
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dawnbreaker score: -1
nice try.
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My user review would be somewhere in the 60-70 range.
All things considered it’s above average so far but 90s and 100s are definitely inflated scores for an expansion that hasn’t even seen its first season.
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Commercial Reviews are cancer to the industry and especially to the customer.
The Reviewer get paid directly or the publisher pressures them to not bring them any money again in the form of ads, if the outcome of a review is not on par with the business.
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Not sure why outlets review mmo expansions so early, pretty sure some of these places gave SL high marks and look how that turned out.
That said, I’m liking TWW so far, just feels like DF 2, which is a good thing.
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All of them are. Check the user review compared to company reviews for any expansion and it’s night and day.
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They seem to even have a hard time honestly rating the games that they genuinely dislike on these review sites.
Like the review will read as if there is nothing redeeming at all about it and then they rate it a 50.
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I was serious. It’s my favorite dungeon, and it’s not even because of all the stupid ways players get themselves killed. I enjoy flight in dungeons!
So you’re the one.
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8/10 seems fair for what we have access to so far.
Its a great world and it has great quests.
But i wont actually be able to rate the base expansion until the season starts and i can start doing higher level delves.
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Meanwhile, users will review bomb anything if they think it’s woke as 0/10.
Luckily, Metacritic exists and consolidates everything to let us make an informed decision.
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Review bombing goes in both directions. the 10/10 one liners and the 0/10 .
In the end you cant trust anything.
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Gaming Journalism lost credibility years ago, and it’s only gotten worse.
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Not really, rarely is someone going to 10/10 a game they’ve never played, while the inverse is extremely common.
Not to mention, how many reviewers be it company or gamers have the same taste as someone else?
Can read 1000 reviews and still need to try it for myself regardless.
Well, just look at the reviews of the customers and the reasoning “the UI ist great 10/10”
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For me it’s around middle, it’s pretty average and bland but I do like some things in the mini-expansion.