There is nothing new to do after a handful of hours. Why wouldn't it be fair to review it at that point. With the knowledge the game is adding the requirement to spend gold upon death and that they are adding microtransactions after release, I'd give them an even lower score than the current average myself.
They've stated they are adding microtransactions after launch. They will likely be selling gold with those microtransactions, and they'll probably increase the cost of dying when they do.
Loading up your page with ads to cover the lost revenue from people using adblockers just justifies adblockers and pushes more users towards using them. Websites still don't get it; they screwed up big in the nineties and they'll be paying the price for the rest of the life of the internet until they fix their face.
Avoid this mess and save your trial for an actual game, like State of Decay 2
There are some early access and alpha games like No Man's Sea and Playerunknown's Poor Performance.
Play a different game instead. That's a neat trick.
It took them half a decade to push out what is a glorified early access alpha version, there is no way they are gonna put out anymore content at a reasonable pace.
Nah it will sell well... no other exclusives for the XB1 besides State of Decay 2, Xbox-only owners gotta buy something to play. Doesn't even deserve a quarter of a mil considering it has less content than most early access titles, though.
The beta was holding back server issues and post-release disappointment.
Yeah, I'm not even mad its a XB1/PC exclusive, as I have an XB1 (sadly). I'm mad they spent zero effort into making it an actual game with actual content and rather on pre-release hype and astroturfing articles.
I don't even think that review was paid for, rather just clickbait for a game they knew wouldn't fare well in other reviews. I actually doubt they played the game at all outside of the beta. How can you review a game that gave you a review copy only hours before the full release, and then review the game in full the next day? Hint: You don't.
This is Microsoft's big attempt to make the game pass worthwhile, that's it. "Look, we are giving you AAA first-party exclusive $60 games!"
No mention of the fact that the game is barely worth $20 in its current state. Shame that this had to be the game to push Gamepass, as all the money clearly went to pre-release astroturfing rather than content development.
Saving mine for State of Decay 2. Microsoft has announced NOTHING else that even remotely piques my interest, and Crackdown 3 is never gonna come out.
Shame that they let Crackdown 3 be in limbo since their first E3 but as soon as Scalebound missed a deadline they axed the whole project.
Doesn't matter if you cared or used it, you were sold a console with features that were removed, and as long as you were aware of them when you purchased you are owed.
@KillZallthebeast
Where do you work that you make $65 every 5 minutes? Lemme get in on that.
Sold By Thieves.