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2/22/13 5:14:22 PM#101
Usually, if your goal is to be clear and unbiased, you don't say: "I'm not reviewing this game because I have an extremely negative bias toward it, so I'm having a stringer I pay do it for me." The stringer obviously knows your bias since you have no problem telling everyone in the free world, so of course he's got an implied incentive to agree with the guy signing his checks and of course the review makes the game out to look like the worst thing since the Black Plague! Don't get me wrong - I'm sure the game sucks ass, but considering Rift and SWTOR scored ridiculously high... and both sucked ass as well... I'm kinda left scratching my head. Yet, I do know Trion opened the checkbook for a special column on this site and SWTOR had bought avertising. Considering both games were, at best, WoW Clones with maybe 1 or 2 additional gimmicks, I do have to express a bit of dubiousness toward this review. SWTOR also had ridiculously crappy load times, graphical bugs, and insanely choppy controls (hell, my Jedi Sentinel would actually not attack sometimes when I pushed the button 15 times.). And don't even get me started on the bugs Rift had at release. Let's get a little consistency of reviewing here. How does this game score a 1 in Innovation while games like Rift score 7-8? The only way Trion could have possibly innovated less is if they used the "World of Warcraft" logo, then Xed out the Warcraft and handwrote "Rift." I won't go as far as to say the fix is in, but I can't help but wonder if that 1.7 would have been closer to 7.1 if the War Z developers had hired Paul Crilley to do a column and paid MMORPG.com a generous stipend. That's all I'll say. EDIT: Eh, nevermind what I just said. There's a time and a place to defend the title being crapped on and point out a few inconsistencies, but this title isn't worth defending. While I think MMORPG probably should have gone with a 5, considering that's what they gave freaking Final Fantasy 14, the game that was so craptacular its own developers pulled it from the market and apologized to us, a 2 ( rounded up) is not out of the question for this game. |
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2/22/13 5:33:56 PM#102
get this guy to re-review afew of the so called big AAA games, lmao i wonder what he would have given the crap that has been churned out over the last few years.
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2/22/13 5:48:50 PM#103
Fair points, but let's not also ignore the fact that MMORPG has always, historically, gone out of their way to find the gold inside a horse apple... often times to the sheer bewilderment of the readers. For the best example, read the series of reviews of Warhammer Age of Reckoning when it first came out. I was left scratching my head and saying: "Are you *sure* you played this game? The game barely even works, has no more PvP than WoW does... yet markets itself as a PvP MMO... and you're giving it a 7.4." |
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2/22/13 5:49:58 PM#104
1.7? You must have been in a charitable mood... ^^ I doubt I've seen a single game make so many of the classic mistakes at once, as this one does.
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2/22/13 5:56:37 PM#105
Not often you see so many agrees that a game sucks, I do believe this must be the world first on game sucks agreements in a single thread on mmorpg.com
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2/22/13 6:05:08 PM#106
Originally posted by Cylint ^^^^^ He loves you long time. |
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2/22/13 7:03:42 PM#107
Remember, the guy they got to do this review isn't a regular staff member here. It would be interesting to see some of his other MMO reviews, if there is any.
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp? |
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2/22/13 7:38:00 PM#108
Originally posted by sibs4455 If this guy would get to critical with the major titles, they probably wouldn't let him review them for this site anymore. Remember that guy who wrote a negative opinion on SWTOR while the rest of the staff was celebrating it? |
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2/22/13 7:45:30 PM#109
Kind of sad that this is one of the few games that MMORPG.com was allowed to be brutally honest with. MMORPG isn't getting any income from The War Z, and everyone else on the internet is bashing The War Z as the "in thing", so it's a very safe review to lather with insults and mockery. Later, MMORPG can refer to this review when accused of making biased reviews, and show all their readers that indeed, they are not biased. They bashed a game and gave it a shockingly bad score when everyone else was doing the exact same thing.
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2/22/13 7:48:58 PM#110
More like people don't understand the new genre coming out, also this review has a lot of lies that I already pointed in another post up there yet no one commented my post because they know I'm right and I only stated facts. The review is biased and full of lies that is all. |
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2/22/13 8:08:26 PM#111
There are FAR worse games than this out there. It's starting to feel like a mob-mentality has taken over regarding WarZ. It's now cool to hate on it, so everyone does. True it's not a great game, and the developers have tried to pull some shady shit, but the level of outright hatred aimed at it makes me suspect that there is something else going on here...
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JDogg126
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Joined: 8/16/08
You've ruined your own lands, you'll not ruin mine! |
2/22/13 8:13:01 PM#112
Originally posted by Zixizor The review is actually quite accurate. I'm not entirely certain how you can say that it's not or defend this game or its developers. It is a very badly made game and the developers sought to cash in on the DayZ craze by trying to beat the DayZ standalone to market. I think the funny thing here is that the utterly fraudulant The War Inc has actually bought DayZ stand alone all of the time the developers need to make that game something really special. Instead of trying to rush to compete with The War Z, the devs for DayZ have the total luxury of saying that their game will be released only when it's ready. That's not something that would have happened without such an utter failure as War Z trying to beat them to market. |
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remyburke
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Joined: 7/03/04
I liked MMOs better when gamers didn't play them, and just geeks did. |
2/22/13 8:16:06 PM#113
This game is the best example of "cash grab" I've ever seen in my 36 years on this planet. What a steaming pile of shit.
Playing: Nothing Played: AC1, AC2, AO, AoC, CO, CoX, DAoC, DCUO, DN, EVE, EQ1, EQ2,
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2/22/13 8:19:57 PM#114
Originally posted by Volgore That guy wasn't let go because of his negative SWTOR review, it was because of some of the comments he made. I can't remember exactly what it was but I do know he acted like a tool.
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2/22/13 8:21:41 PM#115
Originally posted by ironhelix That's why almost everyone is "hating" on The WarZ.
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xer0id
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Joined: 9/06/08
Purge the unjustifiably, Execute the retardifycation in this world. |
2/22/13 8:22:30 PM#116
Originally posted by YamotaHm
"I like to watch anime, as much as I like to play games."
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2/22/13 8:28:18 PM#117
Originally posted by Ginaz Yes, that was "the official" story. |
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2/22/13 8:42:40 PM#118
What's the real story, then? Does it involve black helicopters? I remember reading what the guy wrote and thinking "yup, I can see why they let him go". I wish I could find it but I can't be bothered to right now.
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2/22/13 8:58:37 PM#119
7.5-8? Lol. Right
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2/22/13 10:02:39 PM#120
Did it ever occur to you that the reason "everyone" was bashing the game was because it actually does suck? No, that cant be it...
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