DriveClub New Review (Gamesradar)

[Ganoncrotch]

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.