MEA scores higher than GTA5 and the dangers of online reviews

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.

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.

So what is it supposed to be about, other than to compare apples and oranges. Such as design flaws vs failed customer policy. Bioware didn't spit into the faces of their customers. Rockstar did. Bioware created a game that wasn't liked by a number of people, Rockstar created one that was liked, but punched the customers into the face two years after release. It's not the least bit comparable.

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

Fans are obviously abusing reviews for GTAV, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are abusing reviews for Andromeda.

The game just sucks.

Speak for yourself.

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

You don't get what these games are about. The modding community taking up where the company left and making most moddable games so much better. It's not overreacting, if they suddenly take that ability away from the community but a natural reaction. They're perfectly in their right to do so, but that nobody expected the backclash after that kind of move is beyond me. It's kind of big and probably not understandable to someone playing on a console. Granted, GTA only had 129 files on the nexus. But one has to understand precedence to get the scope of what they are doing. They even sued a modder providing some file for free, as a labor of love, according to the discusion on the nexus website. And all because they want to sell their cards to players. That's the same as if someone from the company had stepped up to slap each and every player to the face. That's what the outrage is about and that's why it's not the least bit comparable to MEAs reception. It's not about design, it's not about glitches or bugs, it's about taking something from the community more than two years after the gae was released on the PC.

How fan reviews can abuse the the system based on their personal feelings and not what the game itself offers.

lol still not what this thread is about.

Fans are obviously abusing reviews for GTAV, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are abusing reviews for Andromeda.

The game is low quality and just sucks.