Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

[Agony_Aunt]

Hey Ant, SC's Metacritic rating is down to 3.9/10

Star Citizen

Star Citizen for PC game reviews & Metacritic score: You wake up... The hum of the fusion drive reverberates through the ship's hull. It reminds you that you should probably replace it soon. A quick check on the M...

www.metacritic.com

Do something useful and go give it 10/10 eh?

/r/sc have picked up on it.

Not happy that their released/unreleased game is getting reviewed.

 

[LittleAnt]

It would appear the poor reception is spreading, as SC's Metacritic score is now down from 4.5 to 3.6

It could get interesting if the faithful swarm that score to raise it, but in doing so trigger professional publications reviewing the game/alpha/mod...

I think the faithful will swarm it. A lot of negative reviews are from players having not tested the game. I guess it's currently a playground for the refund community (easy to spot with the 11 years narrative they are the sole to use, other just use 10 years. Or talking mainly about development cost or ship cost). A lot of honest reviews...

There is no "game".
Pacman & Tetris each have 10 times more gameplay loops than this.

EDIT : yeah, they have found it
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/vi4xfv Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/vi4xfv/star_citizen_has_a_metacritic_review_score_of_39/

Posted on refund june 22, mass negative critics june 22.

 

[VR Golgot]

So the review total was negative before the refunds sub even found it. Interesting.

And you think people who’ve refunded have never played the game. How exactly would that work?

 

[cigwatch]

So the review total was negative before the refunds sub even found it. Interesting.

And you think people who’ve refunded have never played the game. How exactly would that work?

That starcitizen_refunds person surely is influential.

 

[Factabulous]

If the game can only garner 36 positive or negative reviews in total then that's probably more of an issue than the fact they have some negatives ...

 

[VR Golgot]

Ok I’ve found the problem. The Refunds guy just spent money and went to Citcons…

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/vimj0w/_/idedgrt Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/vimj0w/i_dont_even_have_the_game_and_every_comment_i_see/idedgrt/

No mention of playing the alpha at all. FUD dismissed.

 

[cigwatch]

DAT SC REFUGEE WAVE
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/vi6i7j Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/vi6i7j/ed_odyssey_smokes_sc/

 

[Xink]

Totally organic feedback, independent reviews by real people.

 

[Viajero]

Totally organic feedback, independent reviews by real people.

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Pretty sure the negative ones are the same. Welcome to Metacritic.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Wow, a whole 50 reviews. Nearly. That wave of referees really cranks out the reviews now. Soon there will be hundreds. Thousands!

 

[VR Mr Teatime]

Wow, a whole 50 reviews. Nearly. That wave of referees really cranks out the reviews now. Soon there will be hundreds. Thousands!

Somebody should do a kickstarter to really get the reviews rolling in...do I smell a new monetisation opportunity?

 

[Xink]

Leave a positive review for the chance to win a brand new concept only ship worth $999.99!

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Pretty sure the negative ones are the same. Welcome to Metacritic.

What is funny is the more fans write reviews, the more it validates SC as being a released product.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Yeah, let the market speak for itself, not the shillministers.

 

[StuartGT]

...an early access released product, but yes.

What is funny is the more fans write reviews, the more it validates SC as being a released product.

Star Citizen was released as early access years ago, so while it's taken a while for Metacritic to catch on it is better late than never.

SC markets itself as Playable Now with flashy trailers, and has a 30 day refund period, while also being in alpha development awaiting core tech and features to be implemented.

But yes, I agree that as more user reviews of the product come in, the likelihood of gaming media news outlets deciding to review it too increases greatly: "those that played it have reviewed it, it's time we did too".

Eurogamer did one years ago, but other sites didn't reciprocate.

Star Citizen, I am disappointed

Star Citizen is a bit like an Instagram account: what you see looks amazing but the reality is hollow. As it stands, at…

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[cigwatch]

Somebody should do a kickstarter to really get the reviews rolling in...do I smell a new monetisation opportunity?

One of the new ships is called The Reviewer.

 

[Frank]

What is funny is the more fans write reviews, the more it validates SC as being a released product.

I just hope these rabid SC fans don't notice how odd their one single review statistic looks and go on some sort of reviewing rampage

I don't want other games' score skewed by folks who think $10,000 is a normal amount to spend on a computer game

I mean... how will I ever trust Metacritic again?

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

One of the new ships is called The Reviewer.

Another one, and that is @Mole HD 's favourite, I believe, is the Accountant.

 

[StuartGT]

I've posted the Metacritic info to Spectrum. Wonder what Nightrider-CIG will make of it?

Star Citizen currently has a Metacritic score of 3.6/10 from 47 reviews - Star Citizen Spectrum

It looks like Metacritic recently opened up the Star Citizen page for user reviews, the first being back in February of this year. Allowing user reviews for early access products is common for the...

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[PiLhEaD]

When it's working, it does look like a lot of fun, although I tend to play with myself more than others...

Source: https://youtu.be/QYHR0oPXDn0