Not a bad review. It just felt like I was reading a summary of these forums in the last few weeks rather than a review from someone who had played the game. The reviewer has obviously played the game and has picked up on a whole host of issues in their game time, informed enough to be aware of the wings update, yet claim they've not been witness to the player's impact on the galaxy.
Also, I felt less inclined to give most of it any weight when it opened with the expectation of the game being an mmorpg in space.
For me, the review sums up ED's flaws on the basis of expectation. Expectation tends to be derived from derivatives of "every other game". And ED isn't attempting to be that.
Many points raised are valid. Just nothing more insightful than any of hundreds of posts here. The bug list did it in, for me. Smacked of standard forum feedback right there.
Particularly the "NPC kill stealing" bug. Which isn't a bug. And is actually a tenet of the game's dystopian themes.
And has long since been essentially made easy to avoid anyway due to posts exactly like this review.
On a positive note, he at least "gets" the hilarity and enjoyment of learning a game without hand-holding. Which was all the more surprising when he then failed to derive any enjoyment out of progressing due to it being "easy to begin with but then really, really hard later on".
Again, it all just felt like this forum condensed into a single page; positive and negative comments alike.
