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torok on 27 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.

That would stimulate devs to release broken games because they could patch it later and get a better meta. I prefer the way it is, because it's a punishment to rushed releases.

I love Driveclub on its current form, but I recon that Evolution deserved the score because they got the game delayed several times (it should be a launch title) and received budget increases and STILL managed to release it broken.



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torok on 27 June 2015
SvennoJ said:

Some reviews lowered the score because of server issues. Many day 1 reviews did not indeed.
At the time of review many reviewers felt track racers were outdated and far inferior to open world racers.
Plus the long delay might have also played a part in reviews, together with the fact that weather was teased at E3 yet still not included at launch. Add low car count, no car tuning (which are both actually a plus for online competition and leaderboards based on driving skills) and DC simply didn't fit the image of what a next-gen racer should be. 

Instead it's an amazingly polished track racer with old school addictive gameplay combined with endless online challenges. There is always something to try to beat.


Because they are total idiots. Maybe people should stop watching Formula 1 unless the races were on tracks full of traffic and people.

I prefer track racers because it's impossible to go after a best time on a sector with that ridiculous amount of cars crossing your way in open world racers.



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Acevil on 27 June 2015
Dr.Vita said:
Wait, is this game getting new reviews? o.O


Because this generation introduced Review Updates for some very stupid reason.  So now companies can release broken games, and they won't suffer as much from loyal fanbases, that are super forgiving. 

(Unless you are Ubisoft, only company that doesn't get a free pass.)



 

LudicrousSpeed on 27 June 2015
Aerys said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
I think people are badly mistaken when they assume DC scored what I did because of server issues.

A. Sony (or Evolution, one of them) said recently that the servers were functional for reviewers.

B. A vast majority of the low scoring reviews I have seen either don't even touch on network issues, or barely mention them.

It's not a situation where a 71 meta game would have been a 90 or something. Or even an 80.


You are mistaken by thinking a lot of reviewers didnt score DC according to the server issues even if they played without these issues, many gave it a lower score knowing all these issues.

And there was also the content, no weather, that made a big difference considering the weather is mindblowing and the most next gen weather we've seen so far.

There was also the small content, all these issues are now resolved, so yes, the game would be much closer to 80-85 now, Gamesrader is a good example, their preview went from 8 to 9,5


And yet most reviewers either didnt even mention it or gave it no attention in their review. And Sony says the servers handled reviewers just fine. Seems most of the reviews dinged the game for physics, handling, AI, and the scoring system. Pretty rain graphics dont fix those.

I actuslly had the same issues with my copy of the game and gave it another shot because of all the fuss it was getting with the weather. It was the same flawed racer just prettier imho.

As far as content goes you could say that about any title that gets free content added. Anyway, dont want to make it seem as if i am pooing on DC for no reason so this is my last post ITT.



Protendo on 27 June 2015

I think post reviews are great.

Let the buyer know what he's buying now.

That way things like Mortal Kombat X don't happen again.



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Qwark on 27 June 2015
Vasto said:
Qwark said:

Not the original but all DLC's feature rain, and the original tour is pretty short and they released a free tour pack with plenty of rain.


Which tour pack is it? Been thinking of getting the season pass if it contains all the packs.


It does contain all the packs, liveries and cars it is really great value for money 



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Aerys on 27 June 2015
LudicrousSpeed said:
Aerys said:


You are mistaken by thinking a lot of reviewers didnt score DC according to the server issues even if they played without these issues, many gave it a lower score knowing all these issues.

And there was also the content, no weather, that made a big difference considering the weather is mindblowing and the most next gen weather we've seen so far.

There was also the small content, all these issues are now resolved, so yes, the game would be much closer to 80-85 now, Gamesrader is a good example, their preview went from 8 to 9,5


And yet most reviewers either didnt even mention it or gave it no attention in their review. And Sony says the servers handled reviewers just fine. Seems most of the reviews dinged the game for physics, handling, AI, and the scoring system. Pretty rain graphics dont fix those.

I actuslly had the same issues with my copy of the game and gave it another shot because of all the fuss it was getting with the weather. It was the same flawed racer just prettier imho.

As far as content goes you could say that about any title that gets free content added. Anyway, dont want to make it seem as if i am pooing on DC for no reason so this is my last post ITT.

And yet you are wrong, a lot of reveiws mention the servers issues, and like i said, gamesradar is a good example you are totally wrong on the other "flaws" , we know why you cant accept that, dont worry



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Mummelmann on 27 June 2015

Why didn't they just give it better reviews to begin with if they knew that it would improve? I've heard that you can give higher scores pre-emptively based on future promise, in the event that your software has some weaknesses at release.



Aerys on 27 June 2015
Mummelmann said:
Why didn't they just give it better reviews to begin with if they knew that it would improve? I've heard that you can give higher scores pre-emptively based on future promise, in the event that your software has some weaknesses at release.


Nop, you can only do that if you're a squid



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SvennoJ on 27 June 2015
Mummelmann said:
Why didn't they just give it better reviews to begin with if they knew that it would improve? I've heard that you can give higher scores pre-emptively based on future promise, in the event that your software has some weaknesses at release.

That seems to be the standard practice, for example look at the reviews of Halo MCC.

How should games with content updates be treated? I guess it's too much work to update reviews yet a lot of games are far different from their day 1 version nowadays.