As the title says. Despite WL2 still being ten days before its release, it’s gotten 22 ratings and a total score of five stars, a perfect score. That is ridiculous and misleading. It defeats the point of rating systems, which believe it or not people rely on when choosing a title to pay money for.

I fully expected this game to be hit with a barrage of perfect scores due to its nostalgic RPG pandering and the (understandably) desperate rpg fans who run purely on preconceptions nowadays, but this is going too far; No, I don’t care how good the beta was - Beta is Beta - The game is not out and should not be rated based on an unfinished product. It should be rated on its actual quality and functionality on release, which we DON’T know yet. Plus, if you want to express enthusiasm about something then this is not the way. If one has a favorite painter, it would be something like an insult to start praising his latest painting when it’s not done.

To preserve fairness, the ratings should be deleted immediately or pre-release day and really this site should have a lockout period of a week for the rating system, just so people can burn through their hype/actually play through the game and not rate purely on hype.

$110 backer here, played beta since day one, and I agree. I would not give it 5 stars (or any rating, really) based on the beta, but I am completely open to giving it 5 stars on release if I feel it merits it.