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Eurogamer re-reviews SWTOR


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Fornix
11.26.2012 , 07:33 AM | #31
Quote: Originally Posted by Soluss View Post
The game was an 8 for about the first month. During the first month it was new and fresh design. It played like a single player game. Then you realize, this is an MMO and not a single player game. The freshness wears off. The illusion evaporates and the game does become a 4.
Which only emphasizes the point that as a reviewing site they failed. As a reviewer you ought to be objective, and not let hype or hatred influence your ratings. If you're blinded by a title in the early days, don't review it. If hatred towards a title got the better of you in the long run, don't review it.

But it's not-done to rate a title as 8 on one day and as 4 on another day. Sure a 7.7 or an 8.3 on a review could be considered as legit intra-reviewer bias, but 4 and 8 is just ridiculous. In other words, whatever they review as a 6 may be interpreted as 2 - 10 (or worse).

It's one of the reasons why you shouldn't even re-review things to begin with, and if you do, keep it realistic. As the only thing a site like Eurogamer does by doing this is hurting itself in the long run.
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11.26.2012 , 07:35 AM | #32
Quote: Originally Posted by Devlonir View Post
Tell me then which other Subscription MMO is currently above the 1/2 million mark? (and seeing TOR's activity has barely dropped between the time the 500k to 1 million was reported and the launch of F2P, it is very safe to assume it still had 500k subs at the start of F2P)

And it is Freemium with a subscriber option. You can count the actual subscriber numbers equal to those in full subscriber MMO's. Even WoW has a cash shop.

So really, which subscriber MMO is bigger according to you?
Subs were substantially lower than 1/2 million, its F2P now. Of course "activity" is up.

EvE has more subs than SWTOR, and global, do your own search bro.

Quote: Originally Posted by Vlacke View Post
1. Yes it is.
2. You are wrong.
Yes, i see your arguments they are soooooooooo strong

Quote: Originally Posted by Fornix View Post
keep it realistic.
He kept it realistic.

Its another matter that you dont want realistic.

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TheNahash
11.26.2012 , 07:39 AM | #33
Quote: Originally Posted by GrandMike View Post
EA cut down bribe money too, so truthful reviews come out now
Lol... if that's the case, then Eurogamer is not really Light Side lvl V now, is it?
Assuming what you say is true, when the money ran out Eurgamer just felt a bit "hostile" towards its former employers.

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Devlonir
11.26.2012 , 07:40 AM | #34
Quote: Originally Posted by Xatasha View Post
In this day and age it is better to test drive a game yourself and ignore all the reviews. Most of your forums and game sites are full of hate. It doesn't matter what game either when it comes to MMOs
A good wisdom indeed, just play what you want and see for yourself. And go if it doesn't fit your taste and no need to post bile on forums as you leave. Heck, I left GW2 after a few weeks of playing it, and I never posted on it's forums.

To those posters claiming to go to sites and check responses to see how everyone reall feels about it: Don't forget that just talking to people that agree with you most of the time made Republicans and some FOX News 'specialists' believe that Romney would not only win, but he would win with a landslide victory.

Just sayin'..
"Cows go 'Moo', Dogs go 'Woof', MMO Players go 'The PVP is unbalanced!" - Yahthzee
"I'm starting to get the feeling that BW and their MMO are not the dysfunctional ones." - Rafaman

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Fornix
11.26.2012 , 07:40 AM | #35
Quote: Originally Posted by GrandMike View Post
He kept it realistic.
Fluctuating between 8's and 4's isn't realistic.
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Monoth
11.26.2012 , 07:40 AM | #36
Quote: Originally Posted by VanderII View Post
Yeha
Star Wars: The Old Republic - vote 4/10
Guild Wars 2 - 9/10
Give it 6 months and Eurogamer will change there 9/10 rating of GW2 to 5/10
F2P is like driving on a long stretch of highway with toll booths every 1/2 mile

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Galbatorrix
11.26.2012 , 07:41 AM | #37
That review could have been posted by one of the severely jaded players on this board and I wouldn't have known the difference? That's what goes for "professional" journalism nowadays? Pathetic. It's no wonder I gave up on gaming sites like that one long ago.

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Glordin
11.26.2012 , 07:42 AM | #38
Spot on review.

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tzagheru
11.26.2012 , 07:42 AM | #39
Quote: Originally Posted by Fornix View Post
But it's not-done to rate a title as 8 on one day and as 4 on another day. .
f2p after only 1 year is not 'another day'.

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TheNahash
11.26.2012 , 07:43 AM | #40
Quote: Originally Posted by GrandMike View Post
No, they are not obliged to write fairy tales any more and can write and rate it as they should have in the first place.
But who made them write "fairy tales" in the first place?
Are you really that sure that this 4/10 is soooo unbiased, coming from a site that you are implying was being "bribed"?
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