EA Stock Down Due To MoH Reviews
It's all just numbers.
Published: 8:30, 13/10/2010 by Dan Lee.
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EA has responded with the following:
“Critics’ scores are highly subjective. The game had the highest pre-orders in the 11-year history of the Medal of Honor franchise; this is an essentially big achievement considering Medal of Honor has been dormant for several years.
This is the first year in rebooting the franchise. Medal of Honor is part of a larger EA strategy to take share in the shooter category. This is a marathon not a sprint -– today’s Medal of Honor launch represents a step forward in that race.”
I could bang on all day about skewed perceptions of what is a good and bad review score, but we’ve been there before. What I will say though is that TSA’s review of the game was, on the whole, a positive affair and well worth checking out; Nofi spends no time talking about Modern Warfare 2, and actually focuses solely on Medal of Honor.
Source: Gamasutra
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13/10/2010 at 08:40
Member since: Aug 2009
I would have thought the ‘highest pre-orders in 11 years’ might have to do with the fact that there are more gamers than there were 11 years ago.
I thought the TSA review was great but across other sites the reviews aren’t so good and it does seem like its going to take them a few more attempts at this game to get it right.
13/10/2010 at 09:37
Member since: Mar 2010
Plus the fact that it would of only been PC and PS2, now we have 3 formats excluding the Wii.
13/10/2010 at 08:42
Member since: Jul 2009
the game is getting good scores so i dont understand. They shouldnt expect super duper scores.
13/10/2010 at 08:44
Member since: Jun 2010
This is one of the major problems – like you said 7′s and 8′s arent bad scores, but they get portrayed in that manner.
13/10/2010 at 08:51
Member since: Forever
Yep, this is what I was moaning about on Twitter.
If a film, or a restaurant gets an 8/10 it’s the best thing ever. A game? It’s shit, and analysts calling it ‘bad’ are the things that really stink.
EA never wanted MoH to ‘beat’ CoD and any reviewer comparing the two is lazy, IMO.
13/10/2010 at 08:58
Member since: Forever
It was always inevitable and almost unavoidable, like comparing PES to FIFA
The two were always compared when they were battling it out in the WWII arena, now that they’re both in the modern era means that they’ll be compared again
13/10/2010 at 08:59
Member since: Forever
Highest pre-orders in 11 years for the franchise? The last MoH came out when there was much fewer consoles around this generation, and before that I don’t recall pre-ordering being a popular thing to do.
I have no doubt it will chip away at the marketshare and this is a good first stab, but because of DICEs involvement in the multiplayer (the bit most people will play once they’re done with the 4-6hr campaign) is so similar to the superior BFBC2 I think they need to do something to differentiate the 2 franchises beyond merely choosing a publicity gathering setting.
And by all accounts they’ve sullied the good name of Medal of Honor Frontline by not bothering to HD-ify it, and left it looking as rough as a badgers arse.
Medal of Honor sounds pretty good though, so people really need to get over themselves that 6,7&8 are bad scores when they’re not, but perhaps EA need to shoulder some of the blame on this because they’re the one who obsess over metascores and reportedly are only interested in scores over 80 or 90 or whatever, and also reportedly penalise dev teams who miss out on this.
So it’s odd to see them obsessing over metascores when they do hit over 90 but dismiss reviews as ‘subjective’ when they fail to hit their self-imposed target
13/10/2010 at 09:09
Member since: Jul 2009
I’ve personally not based ‘my to buy/not to buy’ decision upon the scores, but upon the recurring themes running through almost every review so far… screen tearing, poor textures, texture pop-up, inability to distinguish enemies from background in certain scenes, significant frame rate drops and an average 5 hour campaign.
So, I’m not really that fussed about the score, it could be a 10, but if I read the same issues in every review (I’ve read 5 or 6 reviews so far) then that is what will swing my decision.
13/10/2010 at 09:18
Member since: Jul 2009
The IGN PS3 review is particularly damning, citing many technical issues and game breaking problems.
13/10/2010 at 10:04
Member since: Jan 2009
This is why I normally hate reviews (except for TSA). They’re normally a popularity and comparison contest.
13/10/2010 at 10:17
Member since: Feb 2009
The reason 7.4 is seen as being quite low is because so many games get so much more than that. Very few people can afford to buy all the games they want, so a lot will go for the games that score high. And when i say high, i don’t mean on the 1-10 scale, i mean in comparison to other games that are of interest to that individual. Personally, i can afford about 1 game a month at the moment. A game that’s scoring 7.4 out of 10 will not be purchased by me when there are a few others out there right now that score considerably higher than that.
13/10/2010 at 10:25
Member since: Mar 2009
What i think is happening here is that the game is not a bad game but that the single player is short. Like most FPS these days which some people buy just for multi player, but here lies the problem the multi player was developed by dice the same people who do BFBC2, and by all account BFBC2 is the better multi player experience and then what would be the point of buying medal of honor for a short single player when you could get the same but for less picking up BFBC2.
13/10/2010 at 13:12
Member since: May 2009
Now I feel better for wasting 65$ on MoH. Not the worst game ever, but it could arguably be called the most disappointing game of the year. Although its funny that they brag about how many pre-orders they got when asked about the stock drop, if it really was a “big achievement” the stock price wouldn’t have dropped.
13/10/2010 at 13:33
Member since: Sep 2009
They should just agree to scrap the whole review rating system as people no longer view it as a sliding scale anyway – unless something is 9+ it’s considered bad nowadays.
They should just have “Bad” “Average” “Good” ratings instead and so force people to actually read the content of the review rather than just comparing numbers…
How are they even comparible anyway? 4/5 is a good near perfect score but on Metacritic it converts to 80 but if that reviewer had a 100 scale he might have put it at 98. Again TSA’s 8/10 is a good score for this site and the review was positive but it’s ‘just’ an 80 on Metacritic. Who is to say that nofi wouldn’t have scored it 88 (or possibly higher) if he had a sliding 100 scale available to use? An 8/10 for nofi could be the same as a 96% from another reviewer. It’s stupid…
I don’t envy whoever on TSA is reviewing Black Ops – because if it scores more than 8/10 they’ll be complaints of bias or falling for commercialism!
13/10/2010 at 16:57
Member since: Feb 2009
This is a huge problem in today’s gaming world. To a lot of people, if a game isn’t given 9 or 10/10 then it means its crap.
I’m planning on picking it up cheap just for the Single Player, but may get it earlier if I don’t like Black Ops.