If you’re a visitor to mmorpg.com, you’ve probably found yourself stepping into the middle of a controversy. Apparently yesterday’s review of Fallen Earth caused such an uproar that mmorpg.com’s staff saw fit to remove it from the website. I decided to get my super sleuth kit, and by super sleuth kit I mean grabbing part 1 off of Google Cache before it was deleted.
Aside. From. Numerous. Very. Short. Sentences that only an obsessive grammar Nazi like myself would notice, I can’t say the review was this beating that players seem to see it as. It applauds the game’s crafting system, while shaking a finger at the idea of being a “jack of all trades, master of none.” In fact, the only bad thing that the reviewer mentioned was lag, and a lot of lag. Fallen Earth has a lot of lag. The controversy, that took me about an hour to unearth, is that the reviewer’s computer did not meet the minimum specifications to play the game.
I don’t do reviews on MMO Fallout, but I do play them.Despite what some may assume when they read my articles, I don’t just sit on the sidelines and bicker about MMOs. When I talk about Planetside’s server merger being a bad sign, while Dungeons and Dragons Online going free to play is a good sign, I have played both: In the past couple months even.
The problem with MMOs is that they are never a finished product, and what is a gripe one day is a feature the next. What was a good feature may be gone the next day. MMOs are such an ever changing landscape, that it is impossible to get a review down that you won’t have to update every few months.
If you were to read a review of Guild Wars from back in its release, you would hear about Hero Battles and Team Arenas. After buying the game and installing it, you would find that both pvp modes are nowhere to be found, and in fact were removed this week and replaced with the Sealed Deck/Codex Arena maps.
I won’t try to embarrass the writer by posting the retracted review here, foremost because I don’t think reviewing an MMO is a good thing to begin with.
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