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Zellith, do gaming w Overwatch 2 director opens up about having the worst-reviewed game on Steam: 'Being review-bombed isn't a fun experience'

Review bombs generally dont last the entire release of a game. Perhaps you just made a shit game.

Homeschooled316, do gaming w Overwatch 2 director opens up about having the worst-reviewed game on Steam: 'Being review-bombed isn't a fun experience'

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  • conciselyverbose,

    You understand that the game isn't new, just new to Steam, right? Having zero hours on Steam doesn't mean anything when they forced all the people who genuinely wanted to play it to figure out that it was dogshit on their own launcher first.

    wolfshadowheart,
    @wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

    Reposting from another thread:

    Review bombing is when a game gets poorly rated for something, mostly completely unrelated to the game, but due to something surrounding it - be that a publisher decision like deciding to ban and not give Blitzchung his prize money for saying support Hong Kong, or some perceived language/political/regional slights like with Nier Automata. Tons of examples out here in this category, where legitimately good games are being affected by somewhat legitimate but not relevant reasons.

    Overwatch 2 being poorly rated on Steam isn't review bombing. It's gamers saying how shit the game is, like the false promises for Cyberpunk 2077, the addition of denuovo to games, or horrendously egregious microtransactions added to games, like with horse armor or the entirety of everything thst happened leading up to Star Wars Battlefront II (the second). These may be legitimately good games severely affected by terrible decisions from the developers, publishers, or marketing team. Being poorly rated for having egregious microtransactions isn't being review bombed, it's highlighting a serious problem in the games design.

    I understand why the latter is so easily mixed up with the former, but it's something that happens as users and media outlets erode the meaning of these words. It's disingenuous to say that something is review-bombed when it's poorly rated for legitimate reasons but as you said it's something that is now interpreted that way.

    There's also something to be said about Valve's internal metric for review bombing which is the increased number of reviews leaning in a particular direction due to some external force. For example, Assassins Creed Unity being given for free led to positive reviews but was excluded from being counted as a review bombing, compared to something negative like being completely unable to leave reviews at all on the Epic Games store, leading players to leave reviews on Steam.

    In regards to the reviewson Steam, given that the game has been out but just released on this platform, it's still not review bombing. Are there joke reviews? Always in basically every game since before steam points awards. That doesn't mean they were being review bombed, that's just any other joke reviews.

    Tl;Dr is overwatch 2 being poorly rated for something that doesn't have anything to do with the game? Did Blizzard not give prize winnings out? Did the developer make a racy tweet 10 years ago? Are non-localised players upset about something not culturally localized?

    No? It's being poorly reviewed due to changes, removals, minimal upgrades, and increased microtransactions?

    Poorly reviewed for bad decisions. Not review bombed.

    infyrin, do games w The 26-year-old Quake 2 just got the remaster of my dreams, plus a big expansion
    @infyrin@lemmy.world avatar

    I am playing this game again, just for the N64 campaign. For anyone who already owns a copy, gets the remaster for free as an update. It’s amazing that a game I paid $3.99 in a bundle, is getting this much packed in.

    iltoroargento, do games w Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine
    @iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    “Fortunately for Glukhovsky, he is not actually in Russia, and was sentenced in absentia. His current whereabouts are unknown.”

    Literally the last sentence lol thankfully, he’s not in Russia.

    Shawdow194,
    @Shawdow194@kbin.social avatar

    Yes that is good to hear! Hopefully they never find him

    iltoroargento,
    @iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    Agreed. He shouldn’t have to hide, either, but that’s not where we are, apparently.

    whataboutshutup,

    He only needs to never come back, and for him it’s easy. It’s not yet that stage when they smuggle people back, rn they just clean up cultural landscape from ‘traitors’ to make it 100% sterile. Music scene is already like that.

    jayandp,

    What a relief. He must’ve dipped as soon as he saw where things were headed in Russia. I wonder where he got asylum? But at the same time I hope I never find out, for his sake.

    GammaGames, do gaming w Escape Simulator gets official Portal DLC

    I’m intrigued, the trailer looks fun enough. I wonder if there’s a VR mod?

    SmoochyPit,

    Escape Simulator VR was announced for later this year; I assume it’ll support all of the DLCs and community maps too.

    Theradox, do gaming w Bards are Baldur's Gate 3's best class and I can't imagine playing it as anything else

    I’ve been having fun with my Ranger with a heavy armour build but this article does make a class change tempting!

    ConstableJelly,

    Right? Ranger is probably at the bottom of my list just cause in 5e (as has been noted everywhere else), it seems to lack its own identity. If you’re familiar with those rules, do you feel like BG3 does anything to make the Ranger more worthwhile than the tabletop version?

    Theradox,

    This is my first entry into anything D&D / 5e honestly and the lack of identity kind of drew me to the ranger, I wanted to go for a melee front fighter but the barbarian and warrior trees seemed a bit too focused

    Beast master ranger with the heavy armour proficiency ended up being the “do anything” class when I swapped between a couple

    oo1,

    i'd only play a ranger if it came with a miniature giant space hamster.
    "go for the eyes . . ."

    Dalek_Thal,
    @Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone avatar

    Boo comes with every build, whether you want him to or not

    harpuajim, do gaming w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

    Seems like Australia gets screwed with these types of things more than other first world nations. Even a lot of third world countries have better speeds on average than Australia. Even then though with a 50mbps connection you can just download it overnight or start it before you leave for work and you’ll be good to go.

    syphe,

    You guys beat us at most things, but at least we have the Bledisloe, and fibre internets

    Ilikepornaddict, do gaming w Larian CEO's advice about origin characters has thrown my Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough plans into disarray

    Seems like a decent system to me. Have a recommendation, but leave players the choice.

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    @sodiumbromley@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    I’d given away my email address for less. fuk ya some bass tho hell yah

    Photographer, do games w Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site

    Stardew Valley did the right thing by self hosting a wiki, makes it both official and independent

    Smokeless7048,

    Several have, including the old school RuneScape wiki!

    Now there’s two, and one is far more content full

    Blackmist, do games w It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

    And the worst thing is, they probably still won’t be as self-destructively greedy as they were before.

    jazzkoalapaws, do games w Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead'

    Just so you guys know, it’s pronounced ‘epic.’

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
    @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

    No it’s eeee pock because fuck all y’all prescriptivists

    grte,

    Just so you know, that depends on your location.

    KingGimpicus,

    Y-puck

    Flatfire, do gaming w Gaming PC with Chinese-made x86 CPU and Nvidia graphics goes on sale, but you probably wouldn't want to buy it even if you could

    These Zen-esque chips have come up before, though it sounds like this might be the first time they’ve been used in a marketed product. A couple other companies born out of the remnants of Centaur also seemed to have borrowed architectural notes from the early Zen CPUs, potentially as a result of their competitors like Hygon making that deal with AMD almost 10 years ago. It’s the first time one seems to be almost a boilerplate 1700x though.

    Vince, do games w Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon

    Hopefully it gets polished and less buggy. NMS still seems a bit janky, and they’re just focused on adding more content

    jordanlund, do games w Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard
    @jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

    You have been eaten by a Grue.

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