MEA scores higher than GTA5 and the dangers of online reviews

How were there even enough GTA5 reviews in a month to move the average?

Turns out GTAV only got that high because you could mod the damn thing.

Frostbite is still a bitch to mod, but it scores higher than GTAV without mods? Heh. Which one's better, I dare you.

Yeah, I just read the post on the nexus. I'm not particularly interested in GTA, but that seems to be big an warrants some outrage.



That said, it has nothing to do with design decision but with support. So OPs argument still isn't valid.

I think that this would typically be a good means of delivering a message except that in this case the game is 2 years old. Take Two might pay attention if they believe it'll impact future sales, but that has to be the message not just "don't take our mods for GTA 5."

Well lets see. NPD released US sales figures for May and 4 year old GTA V is number 3 on the list. MEA is not even on the list.

Yep MEA is just crushing a very old GTA V LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO

Indeed it is.

I'm not a GTA fan, but this move may set precendence. Don't allow mods in order to cash in on microtransactions and other stuff modders aren't allowed to produce anymore.

That attitude is quickly becoming a plague in the gaming industry. All too many companies make it next to impossible to mod their games. They don't care about longevity, they only care about squeezing even the last dime out of their customers.

Never take away mods if your game allows it. There are games who rely on it to extend their lifetime, and their creators often realize this. XCOM, ironically another title published by Take 2, is one of them. Mods were promoted to the point that they released full tools for the game. Now I worry, and I'm not inclined to get any DLCs or the expansions for XCOM2. Another is ArmA, both made and published by Bohemia Interactive. Between Buldozer, Oxygen and the sheer easiness to create scripts in ArmA (you literally need a .txt file editor and enough skill to change the file type) and they very well realize this, even making a competition with the total prize pool of 50,000EUR (That's fifty grand in euros, you read that right) and promoting high quality mods.

Long story short: mods are important to people. They allow them to fuck around. I mean, ArmA has Halo, Star Wars, some Star Trek worlds (creator of which has passed away, unfortunately...), imaginary stuff, militaries from all over the world (seriously, ACR, Norwegians, British, Russians, you name it, you can probably find it on the Workshop or ArmAholic), historical themes (WWII, I saw WWI once back in the day, a Munich treaty based mod, maybe even the Napolean era) and realism (Go look up Advanced Combat Environment and you'll get PTSD from just that alone). All of this not only increases the playtime exponentially (I haven't even gone into the mission editor - with EDEN editor out for a while now, it's literally foolproof to make and publish a decent mission with enough effort) but it also brings in people who might not play it otherwise.

The backlash for mod removal will be great, and we should be glad. GTA will probably start dieing now. Hopefully, EA is paying attention and even if they decide to not throw in full mod support, they will at least accept the existence of modders. They are, after all, people passionate enough about their games to create their own content with NO gain asked. Those are customers that are pretty likely to come back for the sequel and DLC regardless.

I think what the OP is trying to say is that Metacritic scores are easily manipulated and not a reliable tool to determine how good a game is. Myself I prefer to ask friends, watch reviewers I know to share the same taste as myself, and watch clips of gameplay.

Here's a very big difference: GTAV is a solid game, Andromeda is a dumpster fire.

lol still not what this thread is about.