TENNIS AO Tennis

[cricket_online]

I guess that one's not "comprehensive, in-depth" enough to get a mention on BA's Twitter though unlike the one from their buddies at "FutureFive"...

IMO they messed up pitching that FutureFive review. Either maintain complete radio silence else risk looking like an organisation which's totally tone deaf and deliberately ignoring its customers. Surely they themselves should've realised how bad it looks tweeting a laughable review scoring the game a 8.5/10 when there are known shortcomings with the game. And sure enough Big Ant was blasted on twitter and it did them more damage than good coz folks who were not even aware of the game learned how poor the game was and how poorly IGN rated them as nearly every other user referenced the IGN review in their response.

 

[blockerdave]

IMO they messed up pitching that FutureFive review. Either maintain complete radio silence else risk looking like an organisation which's totally tone deaf and deliberately ignoring its customers. Surely they themselves should've realised how bad it looks tweeting a laughable review scoring the game a 8.5/10 when there are known shortcomings with the game. And sure enough Big Ant was blasted on twitter and it did them more damage than good coz folks who were not even aware of the game learned how poor the game was and how poorly IGN rated them as nearly every other user referenced the IGN review in their response.

and exacerbated by flagging the future five one as comprehensive and in-depth, by extension damning the other ones as not so. really poor "optics"

 

[Snowy]

Some players I have done so far...

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Is anyone able to actually download these with the logos? Or have you not uploaded with logos yet @Llewelynf

 

[Llewelynf]

I have shared them. Do they not get downloaded at all? I think my players are locked and that might be why. I will try upload them again.

 

[Snowy]

I have shared them. Do they not get downloaded at all? I think my players are locked and that might be why. I will try upload them again.

Kyrgios has no designs on the shirt other than the Nike logo. Roger has a big black square on the front instead of the disgonal lines. For me at least

 

[Llewelynf]

@Snowy try downloading Dimitrov, Federer, Djokovic and del Potro. They should all have logos shared. I just shared them again.

 

[Llewelynf]

In fact I just shared them all again. Try seeing if any of them are downloaded properly.

Not all have logos, only Djokovic (Plain white square) and those with Nike kit.

 

[Chief]

IMO they messed up pitching that FutureFive review. Either maintain complete radio silence else risk looking like an organisation which's totally tone deaf and deliberately ignoring its customers. Surely they themselves should've realised how bad it looks tweeting a laughable review scoring the game a 8.5/10 when there are known shortcomings with the game. And sure enough Big Ant was blasted on twitter and it did them more damage than good coz folks who were not even aware of the game learned how poor the game was and how poorly IGN rated them as nearly every other user referenced the IGN review in their response.

I get this, but it's pretty standard. Maybe an RT would have been better rather than having added their own blessing of it, but highlighting the good ones and ignoring the bad is hardly new on people? I think people get that that goes on.

Looks like that review got bumped down to a 7 after the twitter arguments, btw.

 

[Deleted member 9102]

It's not that the review was "positive", it was clearly corrupt/dishonest.

 

[Chief]

It's not that the review was "positive", it was clearly corrupt/dishonest.

Although some sites do accept stuff in order to review stuff, they by law have to make it clear when that has happened: I doubt very much that there's any dishonesty.

More likely that, this being a small tech site, rather than full time games, they just have a different outlook. There's another one here even better: http://techau.com.au/review-ao-tennis-on-xbox-one-x/

Reviews are sometimes wrong and factually incorrrect, but I see people leaping to the corruption angle waaaay too much - It just doesn't happen at this level. There's too much at stake.

 

[Deleted member 9102]

That's how it appeared to me - sure, without inside knowledge I would have no way to substantiate that claim, but I find it hard to believe anyone in their right mind could give the game 8+/10 without some sort of incentive.

And surely they should have the foresight to see that is how it would appear to some when they made that tweet.

At best the reviewer is clueless and knows little/nothing about the sport or the game (in which case why are they reviewing it), and in the worst case the review is corrupt. There is no good look for supporting such a "review".

 

[cricket_online]

I get this, but it's pretty standard. Maybe an RT would have been better rather than having added their own blessing of it, but highlighting the good ones and ignoring the bad is hardly new on people? I think people get that that goes on.

Looks like that review got bumped down to a 7 after the twitter arguments, btw.

The problem in this case was that a review from a no-name site was preferred over a prominent one like IGN. If you refer to a review/score from say IGN, Gamespot, Metacritic it's understandable but pointing to a review from a site nobody has heard of when the game is being called out for being rushed and with a number of shortcomings, it doesn't look good and all you end up is alienating your consumer base even more.

Although some sites do accept stuff in order to review stuff, they by law have to make it clear when that has happened: I doubt very much that there's any dishonesty.

More likely that, this being a small tech site, rather than full time games, they just have a different outlook. There's another one here even better: http://techau.com.au/review-ao-tennis-on-xbox-one-x/

Reviews are sometimes wrong and factually incorrrect, but I see people leaping to the corruption angle waaaay too much - It just doesn't happen at this level. There's too much at stake.

I don't think Big Ant or Ross "paid" anyone for the review. It's just that the optics don't look good at all. As for reviews, bad reviews happen all the time which don't reflect reality or what the users truly feel about the game/device. After all IGN was forced to fire their reviewer for giving a bad review/score (7/10 which was still not that bad) to Ninteno Switch after Nintendo Switch became a hit and users disagreed with the review. I'm sure there must be a lot of similar instances for game reviews as well. And this will always happen as reviews are one person or team's opinion about a game, which is almost always subjective and not an exact science.

 

[Chief]

After all IGN was forced to fire their reviewer for giving a bad review/score (7/10 which was still not that bad) to Ninteno Switch after Nintendo Switch became a hit and users disagreed with the review.

Yeah, so I'm pretty sure this didn't happen.

 

[cricket_online]

Yeah, so I'm pretty sure this didn't happen.

Well IGN did lay off the guy who reviewed Nintendo Switch soo after and it was all over the news...

 

[Chief]

Well IGN did lay off the guy who reviewed Nintendo Switch soo after and it was all over the news...

They *did*, but then there was a lot more to it. Nothing to do with that review.