BfA compared to every other Expansion on Metacritic

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@Baeronn: More of a guess, but one or more (most likely more) of the following… Ion, Azerite, class balance problems, lack of additional connections / merges for small realms, pruning, professions being far less useful than in the (distant) past… Also, for some, just plain trolling… Some of the votes I saw when I looked in the past consisted of, for example, spam of “Fire Ion! Fire Ion!”, many many times… Not constructive, not really connected to any specific feature (or lack thereof), etc.

I am guessing here again, but I would say a fairly large number of the voters actually felt Legion was an improvement in comparison to WoD.

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@Trelw : Usually, I agree with most of what you say, but here you are wrong.

A honest person that wants to give a negative review because they had a bad time with the product will… give a negative review, and that means assigning it a score between 0 and 3.33 (or maybe 4).

This would be the dumbest thing to do, to discount the most negative votes, sorry to say so. It would mean completely trying to achieve some sort of bias you like based on your idea that “it shouldn’t be 0”, which is backed by… nothing. If someone didn’t like the game at all, giving it a 0 is perfectly entitled, just as when someone loves it they are perfectly entitled to give it a 10. On the other hand, an interesting exercise to make would be to simply count the negative votes, mixed votes and positive votes and a one off number if you think that voting was too visceral (which it wasn’t), like negative = 1, mixed = 2 and positive = 3, which would give a top score of 3 and minimum score of 1. But looking at the reviews (since they provide stats for those), there are 51 positive reviews, 21 mixed and 327 negative. This means that 81% of the users that bothered to leave a review made a negative one. That’s why BfA score is so low, because it is overwhelmingly viewed negatively there, not because “too many people gave it 0” or because, as you seem to suggest, negative reviewers were somehow “dishonest”.

Edit: there are stats about the votes themselves as well, not just reviews as I thought earlier. 238 positive, 65 mixed and 789 negative, that’s the ratio. It means ~22% positive, ~6% mixed and ~72% negative. That’s why it has such a low grade, not because people that wanted to give a negative vote made it somehow “too negative”, but simply because there are overwhelmingly negative views to the expansion.

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The only critical view is your own. For me I play this game every single day and have done so for 11 years. I couldn’t care less what other write about the game as long as I am enjoying myself. Onwards.

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Could you post the link please. Can we still vote, I’d like to add my vote.

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Was first one coming up when googling it, but here you go:
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/world-of-warcraft-battle-for-azeroth

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I’m confused… :upside_down_face:

Does the Metacritic score mean that:

A) I should stop playing the game despite the fact that I enjoy it, because it is de facto bad?

B) Blizzard should accommodate the negative reviewers on Metacritic rather than me?

C) My own opinion about the game is inferior to an arbitrary consensus?

Hmm… :thinking:

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?? MoP lost a lot of subscribers, and was the expansion that had all classes have the same abilities. MoP wasn’t aweful but it wasn’t really great either.

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D) Keep playing because I enjoy the game, doesn’t matter if other people don’t like it. :grinning:

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3.1? LOL I think it says everything how reliable this survey is and how influenceable people are in their opinions.

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So, who is it that influences people’s opinions in such a negative way?

YouTubers and Twitch Streamers? Why exactly would somebody who makes his living off World of Warcraft, express unjustified negative opinions about the game?

Do they want the game to die, so that they have to get a real job?

When even somebody like Bellular has pretty much only criticism left for the game, you should probably take this as a hint.

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Arbitrary numbers are arbitrary.
Make up your own mind if you like something or not.

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the fact that draenor had more points than pandaria just makes me not consider this list that good of a reason dude.

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We can’t really say how is BfA… Expansion is not finished, maybe another half will make our eyes explode of cool content :smiley: So you wouldn’t rate BFA 3, but 9 instead!

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Draenor had good features and everything else, the thing why people are complaining on WoD is lack of content in log periods of time.

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Need I remind you about dragon soul or Cata in general ?

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I don’t really pay much attention to these things where people can go mass down vote/give low scores. There is too much mob mentality. I don’t think it’s a true reflection of the people buying it.

If you feel negative about something you’re also far more likely to go out of your way to express that.

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Some days I feel I am still in Dragon Soul.

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As a matter of the fact yes. YouTubers and streamers live on clicks and likes and if talking crap about a game and triggering people (like you probably) gives them clicks and likes they will do it. There are tons of other games they can switch to

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There will always be critics, a good thing for development. But the bfa hysteria is not constructive criticsm. It doesn’t really help development when sheeple get involved.

BfA is my fav expansion, but I didn’t vote that anywhere. Just playing the game :slight_smile:

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This works the same for positive reviews as well. Simple fact is that different people like different things.

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