so thankful I started playing in Legion.
Had I started in WoD, BFA or SL, I dont think Id have kept playing WoW
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This is how simple minds work, stupid people only see black and white and are oblivious to grey. How about, “nothing lower than a 7 on this game we put a lot of money into or you lose access to early releases, interviews, no free disneyland trips, etc…”. One of a many examples of rating manipulation
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Too early to reviews, those are first impressions.
See below.
Why do we still show so much attention to these review sites after all the complaints and dishonest practices?
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Me too!
You’d have missed out for sure.
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Based on how much I’ve been playing and enjoying this expansion I’d say those review numbers are spot on.
Yeah yeah, it’s the, “honeymoon phase” but I don’t care, still like it.
What they do is hand out copies of the game to reviewers, if the publisher of the game is confident enough to issue review codes. Then the writers are tasked with reviewing the game, they play it for as long as they can, write the review, submit it for editing and then when the review embargo lifts, the reviews get published.
No money changes hands between the reviewer and the publisher.
Now obviously some reviewers may want to stay in the good graces of the publisher. So even if they feel a game is worth 2 stars, they’ll give it a 3. But that’s as far as it goes. If a game is truly bad, critic scores reflect that 90% of the time. We see that time and time again, because whenever a game people want to hate gets a low score from critics they cheer about it.
The fact that you seriously believe that reviewers are on the take when to this day zero evidence has ever been submitted proving that they are is laughable.
Every WoW expansion is rated a 80 or higher. Just saying, doesn’t seem right. (Not including classic since we’re on retail)
Let me add onto this before anyone takes it the wrong way. I don’t think they’re paid.
Seems pretty fair, without knowing how fair those critics are.
This further cements what we’re both saying. This whole ‘critics get paid to shill for games’ is just nothing but a load of hot air.
Activision-Blizzard is one of the most profitable publishers in the world. They could drown every reviewer in enough money to set them up to live comfortably for life. And yet their games, when they’re bad, get scores below 60? Yeah no, there are no ‘bought reviews’ here.
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After MOP classic I hope they skip WOD classic, and go straight to Legion 
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over rated
The problem about making reviews for WoW expansions, is that they do it based on the opening patch only.
A expansion is made of many patchs working as chapters, along 2 years. Imagining to give a score to a tv show based only on the first episode… makes no sense.
I’m excited for Legion classic too, pretty sure Retail will be a ghost town during that time.
It’s going to be fun, but yeah WoD classic…ugh.
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I’m holding off on any real committed judgement until we see more of the story and raids but for an expansion that is only in preseason I’ve had a lot of fun so far.
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yeah because gamers love giving things 0 ratings for goofy reasons
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I mean…no more than paid reviewers like giving a preseason mmo expansion a 100 for goofy reasons.
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I mean they are likely reviewing the “main” game which is the leveling story. While the dnd game is what matters to me, and most players, it wouldn’t make sense to have to wait a month before giving said review as it becomes pointless and dated to the target audience as by then they would have already bought the game or passed.
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Zelda OoT Score: 1
Review: dum
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