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i wonder if they will apply review scores to future expansion packs, or if they will adjust the original scores to take in to account the new content?

as has already been said, this isnt a game that is done until a sequal, its a game they plan on updating and expanding for TEN YEARS.



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I'd say letdown/disappointment is better wording than critical failure.



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Tamron said:
i wonder if they will apply review scores to future expansion packs, or if they will adjust the original scores to take in to account the new content?

as has already been said, this isnt a game that is done until a sequal, its a game they plan on updating and expanding for TEN YEARS.


They have been reviewing expansion packs from WoW and other MMOs for a while now and they do review DLC for other games sometimes, so if they make future reviews on new content that will most likely be seperate from the base game.



platformmaster918 said:
Captain_Tom said:
DarkRPGamer007 said:

With all the hype surrounding the game, many thought Destiny would be huge both in sales and from critics. But looking at gamerankings.com, which takes numerous reviews and then averages them, Destiny seems to be not doing so hot. High sales are guaranteed, but if negative press persits I don't see the game having very good legs. Look at Watch Dogs vs Mario Kart 8. Watch Dogs may have outsold it at first, but mixed reviews made it dip into a poor sales point, while Mario Kart 8 hasn't sold under 50k any week it's been out, which has been 3 months on vgchartz now. And Destiny has even lower ratings than Watch Dogs, so I believe after it's first month (if not sooner) it will take a nosedive into the point of no return.

Don't believe me? here's the ratings (http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html?site=&cat=0&year=2014&numrev=3&sort=0&letter=&search=Destiny)


I never expected it to get amazing reviews.  It's doing slightly worse than I thought it would, but oh well... They have already profited.  I'm sure the sequel will fix any issues they have now.

Not sequel, expansions.  Seriously how do people not get this yet?  Bungie said from the start this is a TEN YEAR PROJECT!  There won't be a sequel for a LOOOOOONG time and they will keep releasing expansions for the story and progression with new worlds to explore and new sections of the existing ones.

That is no excuse. Compare it to a real mmo like WOW. The first game on its own offered 10 times more story and good pvp, arenas and a bunch of classes and the next expansion like all, take a year to release and dont cost $35 like destiny. So its a ripoff and a disapointment. If its true that the game is incomplete and thats why tit got low scores then they should not have charged $60 for it. Each expansion on WOW is a game on its own that last a long time and its not just WOW, all other MMO's do it so destiny does not get a pass.



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75 is a good grade for a game, but not for something that was being hyped as the next big MMO. Activision are probably really frustrated right now with the decline of COD, WOW and now these grades.



A game sells $500 Million in revenue in 1 day, which by the way covers its entire development + marketing cost, I seeing Digital + retail sales at a steady pace during the next 5 days, and its a CRITICAL FAILURE ???

Some of you gamer's fish for hits and post some really funny stuff, but this is just outright HATE.

I'm pretty sure by now it has already outsold both MK8 & Watchdogs, which as you posted above, has been on the market for well over 3 months...............

Well, back to more PS4 Destiny.



75 is still decent



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Mr Puggsly said:
AZWification said:

Destiny might be a disappointment for some, but not a critical failure! That's going waaaaaay too far.


There are definitely lower than people anticiapted. Everyone was predicting high 80s or low 90. The mid 70s very bad given the hype.

Anyhow, I'm curious to see the meta score when more reviewes have been added. The final score could go up.

I don't know.. I still think " critical failure" is way too harsh.



                
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Tamron said:
i wonder if they will apply review scores to future expansion packs, or if they will adjust the original scores to take in to account the new content?

as has already been said, this isnt a game that is done until a sequal, its a game they plan on updating and expanding for TEN YEARS.

I just assumed this game would get a couple sequels. The game would have so much content if they supported it for that long



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Prediction: Switch will sell better than Wii U Lifetime Sales by Jan 1st 2018