Reviewers shouldn't have to build their schedule around waiting for a game to hopefully one day being good and then reviewing it. Game comes out, it gets reviewed.
It really is. GaaS games are meaningless to me.
I don't care what Anthem deserves. The reality is these games will always be changing so reviews will never last. It's up to the reviewer when to review it, and they have every right to do so during launch week.
I didn't say it makes no sense that reviews become irrelevant over time. Of course they do. That's not the reviewer's fault though, that's the publisher's fault for putting out games that suck at launch. If you ask reviewers to not review at launch, then why should anyone purchase at launch?
Exactly. These games should not be launching in a state where they need gigantic patches to break an 8/10. If their publishers and their fans don't want these games to get branded with 7s, 6s, 5s, etc then they need to stop launching (and fans stop supporting games that launch) in incomplete and broken states.
And apparently this is an average game meaning this type of thing happens on average to all games. Would love to see her opinion on reviews being updated and reflecting the console brick. Worse was when Andy brought up apex in comparison to anthem, a game that breaks your console.
It makes no sense because the review is a document of the game more or less on day one. The difference between the day 1 version and the pre-release version (which by the way they charged extra to let people play) is negligible, it's still the same console-bricking $60 game minus a couple bugs and plus a couple other tweaks. Essentially what she's saying is no one should be able to review DMCV ahead of its inevitable day one patch (I don't know that it will actually get one, but you know what I mean). The review stands as a document of the critic's opinion of the game's first day *in general*, and its timestamp reflects that. This is what EA/BioWare want people to spend $60 on today (before the end of the fiscal year, no less) and it should be appraised today accordingly. Note that this in no way precludes reviews of the of the state game later; in fact I think as games as a service becomes more prevalent that seems a welcome premise.
Then uhh what? Reviewers have to support their business and blindly waiting for the game to hopefully someday get better makes no sense for most of them to do. Though of course they can if they want. You seem to only be interested in consumers buying the game months after release, but there are plenty of people interested in buying the game day 1 and they need reviews too.
You are assuming that the trajectory for Anthem is only up from here, when with two failures back to back from this studio we have no reason to assume this game will receive much of a long-tail.
I fucking hate this. You're a company with, what? 8 full-time employees now? Stop acting like its cute that you guys continually mess up very basic things that a one-person YouTube channel manages with ease. Is it too much to ask to have literally any of your producers pay attention to the show that they're producing? I'm genuinely curious what the people at KF do all day.
Urgh, I'll be skipping.
Not defending but basically it happens and it's probably a minority. So it got shrugged off.
