It’s weird to review an MMO expansion like a regular game release, but it’s about in line with what I would expect to see in terms of score. It’s good stuff, even if it’s pretty formulaic.
I feel like, if you play WoW for any length of time, you kinda know what to expect from an expansion.
That said, TWW has done a lot of cool things in those formulas. Class design for some of these hero specs has been perfection.
I mean the game is good, and this is the best WoW storytelling we’ve had since either Legion or Wrath, but I want to see Blizz sustain it. TWW will only be able to be fully and accurately critiqued in like 4 years from now.
How can we even know at this point? It’s been a week…
I wonder how many of these review sites currently have advertising money being thrown at them for TWW as well.
Might be awkward to give it a 70 right beneath a giant “buy tww now!” banner.
Yet they still do
So
Grudgingly, yes. Especially when it’s an advertiser’s product.
I don’t think that means they don’t inflate scores for certain reasons.
Yeah, why you’re taking any journalist seriously since they don’t play games?
Also, since you didn’t includ the link to the metacritic, gonna looks like i have too. 
https://www.metacritic.com/game/world-of-warcraft-the-war-within/
“Wait months and THEN look at the reviews to see if this game right for you…”
Why?
Pretty much. 
And MMO’s are pretty much never-ending or finished, so this abritarty “Wait until all the story is out” or etc doesn’t work.
Not a lot of people are going to be waiting get the “Full review” for a game that is ever changing, never ending. Either for most of us who play Online games, it’s now or never.
A Week in to review or earlier would suffice. They need to know all the basics.
If a reviewer can’t do that or have to wait a week in order to come up with a review, they shouldn’t be in business reviewing online games then imo.
i need more time to decide. stuck against a bunch of timegates for now
And we care because…?
I know how it works.
It’s kind of why I put the first part in there. If this was a single player game that launched with all content, I’d weigh a review a little more. MMO’s though, not so much.
Honeymoon and skewed stats/reviews.
I don’t take scores, reviews, etc… seriously anymore.
Again, my damn NDA, but as far back as 2000 I know this practice was being done.
It kind of does mean that.
Otherwise, I have no idea why Activision-Blizzard wouldn’t just inflate the score of every single game they release if they could just do it like you think they can without any sort of scrutiny. Seems strange of them to be selective over what games get high review scores.
That would never happen.
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Yeah, I mean, I would anticipate WoW expansions being rated higher because:
By no means does the consistent WoW ratings in expansion packs even remotely mean someone is being paid off.
I’m not saying they are being paid off. I am saying there are several indirect incentives. Such as early reviews needing to be pushed out in combination with aggressive advertisement campaigns that also make reviewers incentivized to drive clicks.
It’s not some grand conspiracy. It’s just capitalism bro.
Good or bad. Make it of it what you will. It’s still what we work with. 
Anyone that thinks game reviewers are going to play a MMORPG for hundreds of hours and wait for seasonal content is nuts.
Xpac reviews for any MMORPG are going to be based on the leveling, zone design, music, and aesthetics.
Thats like hating a child because you hate the parent, lol.
I give every expansion a chance…go in blank slate and let the content speak for itself.
Fixed though for realism.