Why the bad reviews?

cardiackod75

This has been getting poor reviews well before this cluster of a launch. Just curious why? When I can get on its just like oblivion/skyrim as far as game play guild etc and I love it. Is the MMOP aspect getting most of it or just the game in general getting crappy reviews?

Zusia211

Well obviously if you cannot play the game you won't give a good review.

wrlifeboil

The reviews on launch day are heavily influenced by login issues. If they can't get in, they can't really play the game to see how good or bad it is.

qsnoopyjr

Because of crash bugs
Because of dupe bugs
Because of quest bugs
Bugs bugs bug bug bugs

That's why it has bad reviews

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Stilled Bugged to this very day too.
Which is extremely sad how they ignore fixing BUGS in the game.

Amsel_McKay

cardiackod75 wrote: »

This has been getting poor reviews well before this cluster of a launch. Just curious why? When I can get on its just like oblivion/skyrim as far as game play guild etc and I love it. Is the MMOP aspect getting most of it or just the game in general getting crappy reviews?

Many class skills still dont work, PvP lag, lack of new content, balance issues, quest bugs, server bugs (early on PC), bank bug (PC early), crown store after promising never to add a cash shop, vet levels are a few I can think of off the top of my head.

armyveterab2012

Reason why most of the bad reviews is because the game lags a lot even when you have good internet connection plus on top of that the server shuts down no matter if you're on the North American make a server or the European server it's happened to me quite a few times

qsnoopyjr

Also, the game is painfully stale
Rescue king
New zone...
Rescue king again
New zone...
Rescue queen again
New zone...
Rescue this new person
New zone...
Rescue

Rescue rescue rescue
Static mobs
Static things
Too much spent on voice acting, yet, its pretty poor quality if you ask me.
NPCs just scream the same stuff over and over again.
Not worth $200,000,000+ investment on voice acting

Game is just painfully average, no different than any other MMORPG.

Everything in Francis review is... Spot on.
That's why this game is listed as...
Just another average MMO.

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Game would be something if that $200,000,000 on voice acting was good enough to the point that NPCs were sophisticated enough to try and carry a conversation with you. Game acknowledges what you do and the NPCs try and motivate you to do better and what not and actually try and talk to you...

NPCs run over to you and cheer and do all sorts of crazy things..
There is software out there that AI will try and carry a conversation with you... Yet nobody uses it. Nobody taken advantage of it.

Sadly, NPCs in this game are a bunch of dumb rocks.
They don't even acknowledge you, they don't even turn there heads toward you and run over to you. They just shout whatever lore there programed to shout. Very dull, how they do that yet they don't turn there head, they don't run over to you, they just stand there like they don't even care.
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ESO went the no risk route..
Mimic other MMORPGs
Just be average route.

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No risk, comes no reward.
Hence you get a bad review.
Because we already have enough "average games"
We need more innovative games.

Zorrashi

The great majority are influenced by the rage and irritation that comes with launches--primarily not being able to login in and continuous or spotty lag. Even when you get a good connection, the game still likely has bugs and glitches, which only adds to the initial player's irritation.

The game itself may be good and rich, but if you can't so much as get to those good and rich area then the game overall might as well be subpar and worthy of bad reviews. That being said, most of the bad reviews (right now, at this time) come from the login errors and kickouts.

Funkopotamus

Flaws and gripes I have are.
1. Gamertags being used in a MMO. "srsly....
2. Allowing transfers to transfer anything other than character ruins the economy
3. New players will NEVER catch up/ be able to compete with transfers at end game unless the transfers stop playing the game for 6 months. "Wouldn't be a huge deal if this game had end game content besides PvP.
4. No chat box will ruin the community as a whole as there is basically no in game trading, or guild recruitment, or even role play for those that do so.

Those are the top 4 reasons this game gets bad reviews. I would say it will get roasted on a lot of reviews as all of those are fairly important to most MMO players. There are a lot of player I know of personally that are not buying ESO because of the first 3
Number 4 can be fixed with a patch. The other 3 are just HORRIBLE decisions by ZOS and I am sure sales numbers will reflect that along with reviews.

Will I be playing it? Sure I had this game paid for since may 2014 so why not..
Will I be here in a month from now? Maybe.... I will say that after most of the new player base figures out #3 they will NOT be.

RobDaCool

Wife got me this game, not sure why, I played it for a few days and actually felt like I was ripping Gamestop off getting $33 store credit for it.

sadownik

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

Also, the game is painfully stale
Rescue king
New zone...
Rescue king again
New zone...
Rescue queen again
New zone...
Rescue this new person
New zone...
Rescue

Rescue rescue rescue
Static mobs
Static things
Too much spent on voice acting, yet, its pretty poor quality if you ask me.
NPCs just scream the same stuff over and over again.
Not worth $200,000,000+ investment on voice acting

Game is just painfully average, no different than any other MMORPG.

Everything in Francis review is... Spot on.
That's why this game is listed as...
Just another average MMO.

...

Game would be something if that $200,000,000 on voice acting was good enough to the point that NPCs were sophisticated enough to try and carry a conversation with you. Game acknowledges what you do and the NPCs try and motivate you to do better and what not and actually try and talk to you...

NPCs run over to you and cheer and do all sorts of crazy things..
There is software out there that AI will try and carry a conversation with you... Yet nobody uses it. Nobody taken advantage of it.

Sadly, NPCs in this game are a bunch of dumb rocks.
They don't even acknowledge you, they don't even turn there heads toward you and run over to you. They just shout whatever lore there programed to shout. Very dull, how they do that yet they don't turn there head, they don't run over to you, they just stand there like they don't even care.
...

ESO went the no risk route..
Mimic other MMORPGs
Just be average route.

...

No risk, comes no reward.
Hence you get a bad review.
Because we already have enough "average games"
We need more innovative games.

Well summed up i would aslo add very boring mobs and most bosses. After finishing first zone ( i dont mean starter island) you have seen practicly all the mechanics. Mobs getting more hp and dmg but thats it. You have to wait till doing vet mode dungeons to see someting more interesting.

Phinix1

As others have said, video game review media "professionals" have no integrity and actually review a game poorly not based on the actual content but on the smoothness of a rollout. *** poor journalists IMO.

Also, in my experience no game has been trolled by as many jealous rival game companies as much as ESO. The level of slander and PR sabotage in this game has been staggering, even after Wildstar reps were caught red-handed trolling the forums and banned.

I think it all comes down to money. Obviously rival companies want new competition to fail, and will do anything they can to see it happen. If that means actually buying copies of the game and creating dozens of forum accounts to troll the community ala the Facebook study on viral negativity, then so be it.

Also, games like Witcher 3 get great reviews mostly based on graphics, which I admit are nice (though so are ESO's), yet I couldn't play that game for more than a few days before the pettiness of it's persistent world saw me bored and uninterested.

Seriously, a AAA title relying on "*Fart noise* Huh huh huh huh" as it's "immersive" world dialogue?

I feel like gaming has devolved somehow.

Chikenuget

AlienDiplomat wrote: »

As others have said, video game review media "professionals" have no integrity and actually review a game poorly not based on the actual content but on the smoothness of a rollout. *** poor journalists IMO.

Also, in my experience no game has been trolled by as many jealous rival game companies as much as ESO. The level of slander and PR sabotage in this game has been staggering, even after Wildstar reps were caught red-handed trolling the forums and banned.

I think it all comes down to money. Obviously rival companies want new competition to fail, and will do anything they can to see it happen. If that means actually buying copies of the game and creating dozens of forum accounts to troll the community ala the Facebook study on viral negativity, then so be it.

Also, games like Witcher 3 get great reviews mostly based on graphics, which I admit are nice (though so are ESO's), yet I couldn't play that game for more than a few days before the pettiness of it's persistent world saw me bored and uninterested.

Seriously, a AAA title relying on "*Fart noise* Huh huh huh huh" as it's "immersive" world dialogue?

I feel like gaming has devolved somehow.

Very unique opinion

Saturn

It's not a bad MMO, but the early reviews are also made by people who don't think MMOs continue to evolve. Launch of ESO on PC was good, the game was bugged to ***, but at least you could play it. The biggest problem right now is the lack of stuff to do, since the previous content update (with actual content in it!) was 8 months ago. The game also has a lot of really idiotic systems. For example the loot system that is based 100% on RNG, which sucks a lot when in endgame content you can get multiple traits on gear, meaning you will end up grinding forever because ZOS refuse to add a re-trait feature to crafting. There is also the scoring system for the competitive endgame leaderboards that contrary to their initial stated intentions now only rewards speed of a completion, nothing else and they changed it to avoid trials/dsa turning into marathon sprints...

Yet despite all of this, I still love the game. They do need to fix all the *** and make sure the game makes actual sense, which it doesn't at the moment, but that is all stuff for a different thread.

Peekachu99

Could be because the game has some serious flaws, maybe? And they didn't fix up anything between PC>Console. It's not rocket science. Every review so far has mentioned how horrid grouping and communication features are, because if you take off the rose-tinted glasses, those features are seriously lacking.