Honestly, it's misleading and just brings into question too many variables. There's no guarantee developers will and/or can deliver on promises made with regard to future content and fixes.
Your list and ratings are absolutely spot on. I've only played the bolded titles, but I'd give them the same scores more or less.
Yeah it is, the only reasons I didn't rate it higher are that 1. "Effects and Cause" really outshine everything else, like, the rest of the campaign is decent to good but it never even tries to reach for the greatness it found in that mission again and 2. I wish it was longer.
As many people have pointed out about this, that editors note just makes the author come across as a smug prick calling out other reviews as if this is the only one done correctly. Absolutely mention the patch has improved things, list how it now runs, absolutely! That's the state of the game at the time of the review publishing but when the game has a staggered launch and people, paying fans, have access to the full game and it has a huge amount of issues, posting a review in that time is perfectly valid listing the problems.
The editors note makes him look like someone wanting to get out of writing about games to making games.
And then got scrapped and rebooted to focus on live elements... I don't think it's in development in any significant capacity atm.
They occasionally, when they send over review code, will let us know "X or Y isn't available in-game, and is coming on a patch available on or near launch day". Off the top of my head, Spider-Man had a patch that was a few days after the review embargo, but what we got prior was treated as the final product and what most reviewed.
This. It was a day 8 patch, not a day 1 patch. And it was clear no patch was changing anything about this game this early.
Lots of people made game suggestions already, but I feel it's worth noting that all the vault games don't require Premier. You get them with the basic version of Origin Access too for £20 per year. Premier just means you get new games on day one too, like Anthem. Those games hit the vault a number of months later when even a basic sub allows you to play them like you own them. It's a much better value proposition imo.
Titanfall 2 campaign as it's amazing, Battlefront 2 campaign if you want some Star Wars story, Apex Legends as you get extra coins, Unravel as it's short and sweet.
Yup. EA knows jack shit about game development/bad design decisions. All they care about is money. They give money, work on advertising the game, tell devs to somehow implement MTX and use Frostbite bc it doesn't cost them extra money.
Nope.
It's very unresponsive.
They're only human after all, you cant put the blame on them.
We're blaminng EA because the GaaS focus obviously comes from them. They took a rugby team and made them play football. No amount of time could compensate the lack of fundamental capabilities.
To be entirely fair, shit happens. It's possible the development took that long because of EA (for eg. EA demanding changes and revisions). We don't really know.
