Sea of Thieves is Microsoft's fastest selling first party new IP of this generation.

[DonFerrari]

Azzanation said:

DonFerrari said:

Saying below 80 metacritic on VGC have been considered bad for a long time is taking a lowkey shot on a game? If you are asking me about reading warnings be careful about the part of keeping civil.

You said yourself, when the best game and which people want to play are near 90 score, a 80 is considered an average game so 70 is on the bad portion. Games aren't looked as arithmetic mean, it is just that for something that you have limited time to play or budget, a 69 isn't considered average or good, for most people it's considered not worth to try.

Have you bothered to check the caveat he put with "cracked down this gen"

You are quite new to VGC, for several years games below 80 were scoffed at over here.

So Don, quick question. Do you consider anything scored a 7 a bad game?

If I were to give a 7 to a game it would be on the realm of the forgetful, won't touch this anymore. If you are asking about metacritic, for the history of VGC 80 have been considered average and 70 bad, and you won't ever see me in any thread saying I agree or use metacritic for anything (in fact most users on this site don't agree with metacritic and when looking at reviews prefer to look at a reviewer that have similar taste to them). Still the point stand (not that SoT is bad because of the metacritic) but that a 69 on metacritic have been considered a bad score (not a bad game, you can differentiate right) for a long time on VGC.