Wishpig wrote...
Personally I only trust the reviews that give this game somewhere in-between 4/10 to 9/10. Any higher or lower than that is too extreme and hints at a very bias opinion.
Do you seriously not see how absurdly ironic this is? "Anyone that doesn't give this game a score above just below average is very biased".
I haven't played DA2, but I have absolutely no will do to so either, despite playing Origins right now and finding it decent to good, with occasional extremely subpar parts. I can't pass final judgement on DA2 as I haven't played it, but to say that anyone who gives it a score below 4 should be ignored is nothing but pure stupidity.
And it's equally stupid to pretend that any raid, ignoring whether it actually happened or not, should be ignored. If it did happen, it's a safe assumption that few of the raiders did it because they're dumb little kids who think it's the cool thing to do. The possible raiders would have done it because they saw major problems with the game. If a large group hates it because they see it as a sequel that completely ruined the roleplaying, screwed up the designs, removed gameplay elements, retconned the universe and was made with the mentality of "press button to make something awesome happen" (or whatever the quote is, I'm not entirely sure), then they should be effing listened to. Not ignored. You can't just ****ing dismiss everyone that doesn't like it as a troll.
And everyone saying "it's just one thing, it doesn't matter" is extremely ignorant and missing the point. A lot of people are quite clearly very disappointed with the game. You see more and more negative news about it every day, from DRM to the way Bioware handles any dissiding opinions on their forums, to the music composer supposedly saying that it was rushed, and yet you see reviewers giving it amazing scores. People are seriously wondering if those scores were bought, and they are angry because Bioware is completely ignoring what they have to say about the game, not to mention vilifying them. People are getting pissed because they see Bioware as huge, lying, pricks in this, and Bioware does absolutely nothing to help the situation. Instead they ban people because they have strong negative opinions of the game, while even stronger positive opinions are welcomed.
Just look at this:
Flunkorg wrote...
riiight.
More "bioware is evil"
propaganda... whats next? Your gonna provide "proof" that everyone who
works at bioware is natzis? Actually, i think thats already been done

Do you see this? He's calling anything he doesn't like "propaganda". He's saying that proof and facts should be ignored. He's religiously devoted to Bioware, for ****'s sake! And no one bats a damn eye, instead making snide remarks at the one who apparently found that Bioware is rating their own game perfectly white telling people to ignore the people rating it badly.
People are angry at Bioware, and in many cases completely justified in it, and every new thing we hear about them or DA2 is just another drop in the glass, or another straw on the camel's back.