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Issues with the tone of this article, which is more akin to marketing language at times
editThis article reads as if someone at Bohemia Interactive told their marketing staff to spend a day making sure this article about their flagship game was on message. You can see this clearly in the language and tone of the opening paragraphs, at paints to project an image of an actively maintained and updated game, promoting new and past DLC, touting the "freely and easily available" mods, emphasizing a thriving community etc.
The "reception" section is worst affected by this PR tone. It says that the game received favourable reviews, when in fact the general tone was much more mixed. I don't think 7/10 can be considered entirely favourable. But most egregiously, there is no mention made of the biggest source of disagreement in the public reception of this game, which is that it is a rather niche title, with a difficult new player experience presenting a significant barrier for new players to surmount before the begin enjoying the game. Most of the negative reviews on Steam will mention this, and all the professional reviews I've read do as well. But this article only says that it was criticized for "not having enough single-player content at launch," which is a bit like saying in a job interview that your biggest fault is perfectionism. It implies that this problem has been solved, given how much detail there is in the article about all the content updates and DLC expansions, it gives the impression that the reviews only took issue with old problems of no relevance today.
Which leads nicely to the next issue, the significant bloat of this article, with far too much description of the intricate details of updates. Much could be cut from that I'm sure.
I don't know a lot about this game, so I'm only able to confidently edit a few things like the reception section. It's on my to-do list. But this article really needs an overhaul by people more up to speed with the game.
Move discussion in progress
editThere is a move discussion in progress on Talk:ARMA (series) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 20:50, 23 May 2022 (UTC)