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be careful going to Gamespot
Wraithmire
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Right when I went to gamespot, about 5 seconds later my nod32 virus scanner detected a trojan, one of gamespots banners contained it apparently.
Just letting you all know, maybe it was a false detection or something...but still, be careful if not.
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I quit going to that site long ago. Their reviews are the worse in the industry.
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I go there every day at least twice, and never catch anything.
And as for the above comment, how are Gamespot's reviews the worse in the industry compared to everybody elses? Or did you leave IGN out of your comparison?
"There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
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Haha, I love when gamespot "reviews" video cards but yet they say they didn't have a sample in the offices to test. haha
yea gamespot got me today, lucky windows one care gaught it and removed it as fast as it was placed on
That sucks. Thanks for the warning.
...Oh, and about worst reviews? That definitely goes to XPlay.
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The thing that got me was when they reviewed the WoW expansion. Every other MMO expansion that I've seen them review, if the expansion didn't include all new content for every level up to max they took off bigtime for it. But on the WoW expansion they didn't hardly even mention anything about it. And I personally loved the EQ2 expansion "Echoes of Faydwer". I played both of the expansions and found the EQ2 expansion to be infinitely better put together and presented. It was really good with lots of new stuff for all levels. But they gave it a low review. Here are some of the other reviews for comparison. You can see they were way off the mark.
That's just one example. I've read others too that left me with a bad impression of them. That one just sticks in my mind, because I know that was an awesome expansion for EQ2. I like both games and have no fanboi-ism's towards either one and know that EQ2 expansion was better. Plus, like I said, they didn't hardly care about the WoW expansion having mostly upper level content. Another thing they took off for when it came to other MMO expansions.
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The thing that got me was when they reviewed the WoW expansion. Every other MMO expansion that I've seen them review, if the expansion didn't include all new content for every level up to max they took off bigtime for it. But on the WoW expansion they didn't hardly even mention anything about it. And I personally loved the EQ2 expansion "Echoes of Faydwer". I played both of the expansions and found the EQ2 expansion to be infinitely better put together and presented. It was really good with lots of new stuff for all levels. But they gave it a low review. Here are some of the other reviews for comparison. You can see they were way off the mark.
That's just one example. I've read others too that left me with a bad impression of them. That one just sticks in my mind, because I know that was an awesome expansion for EQ2. I like both games and have no fanboi-ism's towards either one and know that EQ2 expansion was better. Plus, like I said, they didn't hardly care about the WoW expansion having mostly upper level content. Another thing they took off for when it came to other MMO expansions.
Mate, it's one point? What's the big deal?
Mate, it's one point? What's the big deal?
I gotta second that question. A 7.5 is even classified as "good" on Gamespot.
Well to be honest Burning Crusade really is a shitty expansion, the only reason it got those raitings is simply because WoW has over 7 million subscribers and at least half of the people doing the reviews play the damn game im sure. And Echoes of Faydwear is definetly the best expansion yet for EQ2, and the raitings for it dont do it justice.
Point being here that the raitings these sites give are, and will never be accurate for MMORPGs, simply because they only play them for a few hours, it takes days/weeks to really experience an MMO.
"There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
Boba Fett
Even so, a review is nothing more than an opinionated critique of a game. Every site/mag gives odd scores now and again that we'll disagree with. To me, the scores don't make the review bad unless it's filled with fabrications or just poorly written.
/shrug.
All the major sites, and mags give weak-assed reviews of games. It's just part of playing the game. If they burn their bridges, they don't get "exclusives" and so on. So they file limp dick reviews that don't really bitchslap games that need it(see VG reviews).
Even this site is guilty of it, a bit, I feel. While there's always been contests going on, there's like 3 at a time going on now? Add the suddenly draconian-ish moderation and the addition of some new admin types, and draw your own conclusions.
If a magazine, or site wants to get to talk to the players, then they have to play ball.
That being said, there are some sites like F13 that pull no punches, but are lucky enough to be friends with all the players in the first place, so they don't have to do the usual song, and dance. Plus, they're small enough that they fly under the radar to the extent that they can get away with things that Gamespot, IGN, or even MMORPG.com couldn't.