Paging GDJustin to the IB2 thread!
I made it! Whew!
IGN Wireless should pull their 10/10 review for the time being. Seems strange to reward failure of such a buggy launch with a glowing review.
Pull the review? And put what in its place? At what point, SPECIFICALLY, would the review get un-pulled? "When the bugs are fixed" is not specific. Right now if, say, 20% of people are having problem, could the review be put back up at 10%? 5%?
My review score for IB2 and any other game is based on my experience with the game. And I didn't experience any bugs. I still haven't.
This illustrates the relative immaturity of iOS game reviewing community in general IMO. Countless perfect scores for a game that has glaring technical problems on all but the latest device(s).
I love the game personally and I haven't had any issues on iPad 2/4S but it's clear that there is a vocal group of unhappy buyers.
So wait a second, in the same breath that you state you haven't had any problems at all, you say that it's the "immaturity" of game reviewers that led to the high scores? Lemme ask you this, then - what would YOUR score be? Would you lower it, for issues you have never experienced or seen first hand? Is that a sign of GREATER critic maturity and integrity, in your eyes?
I've been reviewing and defending cell phone games for nearly six years,
since 2006, long before smartphones rose up and people actually started caring.
What's more, you're all lobbing some pretty wild accusations at Chair, and now at game reviewers, with woefully incomplete data. I'm doing my best to be a journalist and
gather actual data about the situation.
Those unscientific poll results, so far, have about a third of players experiencing crashes or sound issues. That's a
HUGE percentage to be sure, but it's still a significant minority. Should Chair have caught the bugs? Probably. But reviewers? As I said above, the only thing we can do is write based off our own experience.
