Kraxis,

I still only get 1 vote. It was after direct discussions with some putting up 5 stars that I had enough. 5 star at this point *while knowing the problems* is assinine at best, and certainly disingenuous. So I elected to send a message to counter what I consider fraudulent voting. The reviews I've read certainly aren't a 1 star white wash. (That double post might have been in error, I had that happen to me once on a hardware review--the review didn't appear for quite awhile so I thought it got lost in cyberspace, so I reposted it. Then both of them appeared next to one another in just a few seconds. Groan, thwarted by technology.)

Another issue is that most folks rate things within a few days of purchase if at all. So when it is all shiney and new, and the patches are still on the horizon, optimism tends to prevail (and that is good.) Now we are on the other side of that. I don't think many of us would rate it as highly now as we would have before. (Which is a real problem for me with 5 star reviews.) To me that is where the genius was in rating the game now. Incidentally, it would make just as much sense to do so with a game that greatly improved through patches after a shakey start.

I am amused by all of Quietus collusion, sabotage, and blackmail theories. As a side note, sabotage is usually in reference to an "inside job," again making it an incorrect usage. So using it for this is quite sensational and quite wrong.