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Headshot on 26 June 2015
ganoncrotch said:


Because if a person sees this game on sale in a few years time after all the launch hate has fully died off then they go to metacritic to see if the game is worth buying they see review scores in the 40-50 mark talking about issues the game had years ago.

Batman in its current state on the PC doesn't run, it should currently hold a 0% on meta, when the game is patched and working should it still be rated eternally as a game that doesn't run? just because of a launch window issue that would be gone from it.

Yes. Companies are granted far too much leniency in regards to broken games and false advertisement and can already get away with launching broken games and letting thousands of consumers down by lying to them. They already control the embargos and if and who receives review copies so they could essentially embargo their games reviews until launch knowing full well that it is broken to some extent and then plan to fix it within two weeks facing no serious lasting effect because all those reviews at launch have been removed. Companies already have too much power when it comes to reviews, they don't deserve good pr and advertisement from metacritic if they fixed their broken game 4 months after release.

Seriously how many reviewers are going to agree to rereview a game that already came out? Half as many as had reviewed it in the first place? Most likely around a tenth if that. Also, where do we draw the line in this? What if a game ages terribly? Are we to go back and rereview these games as well and if not why would we only rereview games that were broken and now fixed?



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Ganoncrotch on 27 June 2015
Headshot said:
ganoncrotch said:


Because if a person sees this game on sale in a few years time after all the launch hate has fully died off then they go to metacritic to see if the game is worth buying they see review scores in the 40-50 mark talking about issues the game had years ago.

Batman in its current state on the PC doesn't run, it should currently hold a 0% on meta, when the game is patched and working should it still be rated eternally as a game that doesn't run? just because of a launch window issue that would be gone from it.

Yes. Companies are granted far too much leniency in regards to broken games and false advertisement and can already get away with launching broken games and letting thousands of consumers down by lying to them. They already control the embargos and if and who receives review copies so they could essentially embargo their games reviews until launch knowing full well that it is broken to some extent and then plan to fix it within two weeks facing no serious lasting effect because all those reviews at launch have been removed. Companies already have too much power when it comes to reviews, they don't deserve good pr and advertisement from metacritic if they fixed their broken game 4 months after release.


Pro tip - If a massive game is coming out and there is a review embargo on it.... it isn't because the company is afraid it will review too highly, don't buy games before you see reviews like this, common sense 101 really here.



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Angelv577 on 27 June 2015

I am enjoying DC ps plus edition so far which by the way, my ps plus subcription expired and I am still able to play it and earn trophies. Very weird.



globalisateur on 27 June 2015
Angelv577 said:
I am enjoying DC ps plus edition so far which by the way, my ps plus subcription expired and I am still able to play it and earn trophies. Very weird.


Yes, that's curious. Maybe it's intended by the devs to make amend?

Angelv577 on 27 June 2015
globalisateur said:
Angelv577 said:
I am enjoying DC ps plus edition so far which by the way, my ps plus subcription expired and I am still able to play it and earn trophies. Very weird.


Yes, that's curious. Maybe it's intended by the devs to make amend?

I hope so because I dont plan to subcribe for now.  How you got aware of it?



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HollyGamer on 27 June 2015

why not, they still selling the games, so this type of review will boost some sales. To bad for people who downplaying the games. Drive Club is a hidden gems.



GameMasterPC on 27 June 2015

+1 respect for GamesRadar for doing what no other site has done, actually updating its review to indicate the current quality of the game.



mymuro on 27 June 2015

19 months late and still can't get the ps+ edition done properly. They deserve low scores.



Headshot on 27 June 2015
ganoncrotch said:


Pro tip - If a massive game is coming out and there is a review embargo on it.... it isn't because the company is afraid it will review too highly, don't buy games before you see reviews like this, common sense 101 really here.

The average consumer who checks out driveclub on metacritic a few months after release and sees the low scores but doesn't pay attention to why they scored so low or does pay attention but doesn't bother to check if its fixed won't share this "common sense".



Lafiel on 27 June 2015
mymuro said:
19 months late and still can't get the ps+ edition done properly. They deserve low scores.

reusing your post from another thread? disappointing