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

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DonFerrari said:

Azzanation said:

Reason I am asking is because if many in here want to jump on SoTs reviews based off Critics than all games should be considered equal. I remember you defending Gran Turismo Sport that suffered the same fate as SoTs with its lack of content at launch where the game sits on a 75 Metacritic. Someone like yourself who is a GT fan, do you consider GTS a bad game because its a 7 game by majority of critics?

Reviews are nothing but guidelines, I can see that some gamers fall in love with games that reviewed averagely. To me games are only judged by those who actually played them. 

Yes all games scores should be considered equally (even if I personally think Nintendo scores are inflated and that a lot of points taken from franchises on other consoles are overlooked on Nintendo), so yes GTS suffered low score on reviews (reason I were saying the reviewers were doing a very lousy job, which can also be the case for SoT).

I don't consider GTS a bad game (and neither that it have low content), and also didn't say SoT is a bad game (unless you can find any quote saying this). What I said and repeat is that the score is low and that for a long time 70 and below on VGC was considered a bad score (and sure enough if I didn't know about the game a 69 score would probably prevent me from buying it, as probably someone that doesn't know GT would put other games in front on priority list due to score).

Too many gamers on this site just want all there games to be perfect and anything below a 9 is insulting. Some of my favourite games of all time are in the 80s by critics. I couldn't care less if its a 90/100 or a 60/100 if I can enjoy it I will play it. I personally say 7 isn't a bad score, its an average score, if it was a bad score it would be marked in Red on Metacritic.