Peter Molynuex Asks Reviewers For Special Treatment
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October 7th, 2008
In general, reviewers judge games as they are. If a game receives a significant patch that fixes a glaring flaw that the game in question may have had, it wont affect the score which the game received. A good example would be Lair and how the poor controls destroyed the experience, and although those were patched, the game was not re-reviewed. A little while ago, we reported that one of Fable 2′s major features, online co-op, would be added in shortly after the game launched. So what does this mean for Fable 2′s review scores? Peter Molynuex took it upon himself to personally, via letter, ask reviewers to take the significance of online co-op into account.
“I have a favour to ask you — we build this game not only to appeal to gamers like yourself, but to appeal to anybody. So please, please, please, please, please find somebody who doesn’t play games, watch them play it and see how their world turns out, because I think it’s only when you see those differences that the unique experiences comes through.”
While he clever avoided asking reviewers to actually pretend that online co-op was available. Whether reviewers will go through with doing this “favor” for him remains to be seen, but I for one don’t think that providing a letter requesting to, essentially, ignore a fault that the game has is a respectable move to any degree.
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