@zaldar: It's weird that you led with insistence that the writer was reading too much into it by equating a game to reality, but go on to draw those same comparisons in justifying a war crime.
The banality of the discussion around the percentage value of two stars is a pretty strong case for abolishing numerical scores in reviews. I remember Jeff saying that he was considering that once a few years back, maybe even before the whole discourse on criticism got all fucked up.
Of course, while part of me thinks that I'd love to see a community discussion where people actually had to read and respond to the text of a review, the rest of me knows the entire discussion would just turn to the lack of a score instead. Maybe that's why Jeff changed his mind about it.
This is a good read, Heather. It's a shame that a few people only seem to be able to interpret it as a personal attack against them for enjoying The Division.
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