absolutely, have you seen the number of "fans..... we fricked up" apology letters companies have put out after they get their game shit on? whether or not they fix the game or just run away with the money they already got, it is bad PR and shakes consumer and investor confidence long term
If anything it'll be good for them, these obvious ESG designed games are the gaming industry equivalent of a tax write-off. It's not a Flopspoken/Saints Row scenario where an entire studio is deluded and betting their future on some crap no one wants.
>ESG designed games
exploring the diversity and inclusiveness of "gollum"
8 months ago
Anonymous
I never mentioned this game. It didn't even have a triple-A budget, it was developed by a company known for frick all. No idea how they even managed to get the IP.
>It's not a Flopspoken/Saints Row scenario where an entire studio is deluded and betting their future on some crap no one wants.
CA seems weirdly focussed on it.
>it shakes consumer and investor confidence long term
No it doesn't. People just stick around like batted housewives, believing that a new version or a series of patches or even a full-on sequel will fix everything if they just hang on a little while longer--which always turns out to be 3-5. After which, if they get ANYTHING, even if it's just going from insultingly broken to painfully mediocre, they're sing their praises to high heaven or just lie through their teeth as much as possible to bring everyone back in, so a single cent isn't lost along the way.
Most of these mistakes and shit releases can be smelt from a mile away; if they still bought in anyways, they're already a lost cause and gonna stick with it anyways. At most, you might be able to say nobody has confidence in a release being good anymore, but instead it's twisted into people having infinite confidence that things will be fixed in one way or another, so people buy shit games anyways.
Before elden ring, DS2 was the least popular game, now people like DS2 for the sake of being "contrarian" they now like DS2 making it a mainstream game
No. I knew DS2 was the second best souls game the moment I played it. I swear there’s a real correlation between IQ and whether you prefer DS2 or Sekiro. Brains over reflexes.
What I find funny is despite IQ everyone agrees BB is first. Anytime someone puts DS2 over BB than your comment makes sense.
Huh? What a weird random adjective to just pull out of your ass.
8 months ago
Anonymous
you don't have to use your brain to defeat bosses in ds2.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Everything we are talking about is comparatively. DS2 involves more planning and patience, plus I appreciate the Nietzschein plot. The levels feel more Jungian in archetypes which is impossible to quantify but is my opinion all the same.
Sekiro has no equipment, no build differences to speak of, and just involves spamming block.
Again though, and I think this is the detail your not appreciating, I’m just speaking comparatively between souls games. In the end it’s all the same formula.
8 months ago
Anonymous
NTA. This is quite possibly the worst Ganker opinion I've seen in a long time, cheers. DS2 gays are always the most moronic posters in ANY souls thread. >Nietzschian plot >when its literally what people criticize DS3 for (OHHHH MEMBER DS1? DO YA? DO YA? WE LOVE DS1) >Jungian in archetypes >when they're all straight fricking lines until the DLC
I always liked ds2 but only for its singleplayer. It had the absolute worst multiplayer mostly because of lag hits and lagstabs. Only later did they realize hit detection being fully on the attacker’s clientside was moronic.
ds2 has been my favourite souls game ever since i played sotfs
Ganker just hates ds2 because a youtuber told them to, or because an online socialist likes it. either way your opinion is informed by someone else
I admittedly never played sotfs, but ds2 was extremely dull. It was enjoyable for one run, but when I hit NG+ I just felt no desire to move forward. I set it down and never touched it again, unlike DS1, DeS, and BB. DS2 and 3 just weren't as good, but DS2 even more so.
funnily enough ds2 has the most expansive ng+ out of any fromsoft game. i dont know if those changes came from sotfs though because i never ng+'d the original release
boycotts certainly help. just look at how israelitenity shit its pants and is rolling back most of its israeli protection racket. that said, the pressure should stay on until they desist entirely.
unfortunately, since since the average mouthbreather lacks standards, he will gladly eat up whatever's placed on his lap, which greatly diminishes the impact of current day boycotts. >muh review bombs
have a nice day corporate wienersucker
>two long-neglected franchises and three dead franchises with exclusively hanger-on install bases
how can zoomers review-bomb what they haven't heard of?
the biggest bombing right now is anti-Starfield because #snoysmad and it's still selling like a behemoth
The video game market is now so massive that you don't need to put nearly in as much effort to make millions. That's the problem. The percentage of the audience that actually cares about the quality of video games is a minority that is constantly being overtaken by a growing number of people that have barely started playing games within the last 3 years. The number of people who enter the market who have no frame of reference for how good games can be is consistently expanding while the market of people who have been playing games for 10+ years is constantly shrinking.
Compound that with the fact that games are no longer projects by talented and passionate developers. They're all made-to-order by publishers milking IPs and getting all their hires off Linkedin. They don't fund projects cooked up by dev teams. They have a marketing team cook up an optimal release timeline then go out and hire teams of 5,000 unreleated, scattered people to "make a new Marvel game". They're all just given jobs and have no sense of unity or commitment to a project that means anything to them personally.
Truth. Video gaming got industrialized. It's a job. Game developers feel about their work same way everyone else. They put in the bare minimum to not get fired and live their life. It got so big almost all games and consoles are marketed to a normie market. All games are sanitized, using the same blueprint, barely functioning slop that would get bought regardless of whether it has 5000 bugs or if it looks and plays like ass. Whole genres have died because of this. Innovation is now something exclusively left to indie developers. You'll never play an RTS or a game like The Sting ever again.
>release broken games, missing features, etc >people react >fix most issues, backpedal on some bullshit, discount it heavily on a sale >morons buy and leave reviews saying 10/10 GOTY of century
Steam coming with that shit to hide a "suspicious period" or whatever is one of the worst shit they ever did. Their score should be tarnished forever if they release bullshit and frick with "early adopters" (because that's basically what you are if you buy games on release nowadays)
Yeah, the 5 studios that can afford making bazillion dollar games keep breaking records left and right since they are the only ones that can do it consistently nowadays.
Its the worst garbage that generates all the revenue. The FIFAs, CoDs, and Fortnites and the various other season passed-roadmapped always online trash along with mobile trash print money while AAAs pump out the worst shit imaginable on top. The end result is less actual games from these studios and more casino MTX hell programs
Not even EA can manage to release consistent best sellers nowadays if it's not attached to some big IP man, shit's is clearly fricked.
Just because Rockstar will release GTA VI next year and it'll be the best selling piece of media in history doesn't mean the market is healthy, just like the other anon said, Atari was doing well when shit crashed in 1983, hell, Pitfall! is from 1982.
Last GTA made 8 billion. I’m sure this incredibly talented company will save no expense to make the perfect game. That said, I just cannot imagine a good game with a ugly Hispanic protagonist. I just can’t do it. I don’t know but I could see it flopping hard. And by flop I mean 6 around million sales which is still pretty good but.
>There's going to be another 1983 style video game market crash soon
no
>the triple a market is just slowly dying >keeps breaking sales records left and right
yeah sure buddy.
the games are shit but moronic goy cattle cosoomers pre-order EVERYTHING
if Flopspoken's marketing budget wasn't so high, and SE's sales *expectations* so high, it would still have been a success
payday 3 is mostly negative but look at how many hours all of the negative reviews have. they are still buying and playing it in droves.
the market is dying but consoomers literally can not stop consooming
Hey it's one of those morons who thinks vidya is some niche thing for nerds when in reality it is larger than the music or film industry. If vidya magically died it'd create a depression. It is not some tiny industry. It is not 4 decades ago. Also LE CRASH only happened in one fricking country
Cinema has been riding on Videogames for a while now, it is basically on animated suspension, waiting until people realize driving to stare at a wall is not cool.
>millions of people play the same gay say they don't like it on release >"It's so popular, so you must be overreacting."
There's got to be some sort of fallacy involving populous for this sort of occasion.
Starting to think nobody releases good, solid, complete fricking games anymore. Devs aren't entitled to me purchasing $450 worth of DLC and then marketing their game for them.
>buy new game >it's bad >leave negative review >NOOOOOO UR HECKIN REVIEW BOMBING >HOW DARE YOU GIVE AN OPINION ON SOMETHING YOU BOUGHT WITH YOUR OWN MONEY
If this was about fricking Goodreads or something, fair enough. But you can't review a game on Steam without owning it, and I'm not seeing armies of people buying then refunding it so they can review bomb it.
Steam reviews are largely useless. Most people doing the reviews aren't trying to inform you of anything, they're purely used for le epic updoots trying to be funny
They can only be trusted if there is enough time between or before release or a DLC. People get way too fricking emotional over those things and scores will be either way too low over bullshit or way too high off some goodwill they managed to cultivate and it becomes your job to figure out if that's justified.
> gaslight
No one would disagree with you. I hate that word so fricking much. Before adults would think their was a miscommunication or someone’s memory was flawed. Now everything you disagree with is someone manipulating you. Such a absolutely toxic victim mentality viewpoint.
Because that's what's happening. The expression had a clear meaning which was subverted so they could blame people expressing political views in reviews of "review bombing". It used to mean just morons who organized to drop reviews (or straight up botted) without actually playing the game. Notice how positive "review bombing" doesn't exist anymore.
No one should trust reviews anyway, scores are nothing but a number decided by a bunch of randoms, there's never been a solid criteria and it has always been marketing.
This is probably in response to Payday 3 which deserves it because today marks the fifth day in a row since launch that the servers are shitting the bed for the majority of the day.
The game itself is fun and the only thing I dislike about it in that regard is experience being tied to challenges instead of loot or heist completion, but it doesn't matter how good the game is when most people can't even play it after five days.
Good games dont get "review bombed", lots of people having a negative experience is not the same as people giving a negative out of spite. See Darktide for another example. >its just entitled gamers
No, the game is shit, get your act together.
Its almost like the devs/creators burn all the good faith in the community and they lose almost all the userbase and the only left are people that like to consume complete garbage?
no
this place is for troon trollposters and pathetic e-girl futa hentai addicted coomers
if you're in any way shape or form not one of the above homosexuals, go to keewee farms dot st where there's at least a bit better vidya discussion
unlike this shithole
I come here to trigger troons and make coomer homosexuals angry
I agree that this is the best place but also the worst place. The only real good places left are the places you create in real life with real people you meet.
This place used to have something going for it in that it was somewhere you could speak openly and be offensive, or combative when suitable, but given enough time it warped into you must be offensive and combative and there can be nothing else. Every interaction, or almost, is tinged with this. As much as I hate the unified censorious posture almost all other social media has taken, this isn't the remedy to it.
DC, WB, Nick, Cartoon Network, comics, Ubisoft, Arkane, even Marvel is reducing it's size aaand many others
People have been consooming like crazy this year, they'll play anything and it's worrisome
For small community games, it definitely can work. Wrath of the Righteous had a hotfix within 4 hours of a patch releasing to take out telemetry stuff because people b***hed hard enough. For big games that normalgays will just buy anyway, it doesn't matter.
I 100% blame this on fricking off-shore Indian devs. Once upon a time coding was 5-10 nerds in a basement in your City office somewhere. They were forced to work long hours, fed pizza and managed to shit out half a decent product.
Nowadays everythings fricking Agile, Scrum, Daily Standups and x50 off-shore Pajeets who can't code for shit. Have you seen the credits for Starfield? They recruited half of fricking Dehli and still can't even make a good product.
Why is it called review bombing? It's just a natural reaction to games so offensively bad, that they elicit a ton of passionate criticism and disapproval.
The company and devs bring it on themselves, they're the ones creating and releasing shit games, are people who play them just supposed to be docile, blind golems?
Review bombing referred to people bombing a game with bad reviews due to reasons not directly related to the game itself. Nowadays it's just used for any time the proles get uppity
>are people who play them just supposed to be docile, blind golems?
Yes.
reviews are a positivity circlejerk.
hence why steam marks reviews as "off topic" even if they're directly as a result of moronic decisions.
>Reddit screencap
Of >Black person homosexual >Bootlicker >Shill >Sheep
And His >Shitty low IQ opinion
I Frickin' hate this losers sometimes more than the annoying Troons or the homosexuals just the worst "eat the Goyslop and don't complain" "corporations have feelings too" " muh devs" "critical thinking is le bad " "the hive mind is le good" .
>people have high expectations because new (expensive) tech >release game >it's same or worse than 10 year old games >User reviews: mostly negative >you are overreacting!!!
i dont know, you tell me why this keeps happening
it's also not every new major release, there are a few exceptions and they are rightfully praised
I think its gone a bit off the track lately, I expect most major releases to have shit reviews and 95% of them due to people not liking a company or stuff unrelated to the game.
I get that AAA vidya is pretty shit nowadays but its also insufferable to see all the people trying to fit in by making le funny bad review, plus as OP mentions, things that have a lot of buzz about them still normally end up making money.
It's more effective to avoid steaming hot pieces of shit rather than wading into them so that you can show off how smelly you are so that the next dumbfrick also tries it cause it looked funny
i'm going to negatively review every game i play because i don't want the game devs to be happy
moreover i'm going to berate anybody who plays the games i do because it's entertaining
absolutely, have you seen the number of "fans..... we fricked up" apology letters companies have put out after they get their game shit on? whether or not they fix the game or just run away with the money they already got, it is bad PR and shakes consumer and investor confidence long term
Yes thank god Gollum is finally a good game now
That logic doesnt apply to DOA games like Gollum or Hyenas that no one asked for.
Hyenas genuinely has me terrified for the future of Yakuza after it inevitable flops
If anything it'll be good for them, these obvious ESG designed games are the gaming industry equivalent of a tax write-off. It's not a Flopspoken/Saints Row scenario where an entire studio is deluded and betting their future on some crap no one wants.
>ESG designed games
exploring the diversity and inclusiveness of "gollum"
I never mentioned this game. It didn't even have a triple-A budget, it was developed by a company known for frick all. No idea how they even managed to get the IP.
>politics politics politics
Thanks. Now I know to disregard your dumb ass
???
>politics couldn't possibly be involved in anything other than elections
Enjoy getting played like a fiddle.
>It's not a Flopspoken/Saints Row scenario where an entire studio is deluded and betting their future on some crap no one wants.
CA seems weirdly focussed on it.
>it shakes consumer and investor confidence long term
No it doesn't. People just stick around like batted housewives, believing that a new version or a series of patches or even a full-on sequel will fix everything if they just hang on a little while longer--which always turns out to be 3-5. After which, if they get ANYTHING, even if it's just going from insultingly broken to painfully mediocre, they're sing their praises to high heaven or just lie through their teeth as much as possible to bring everyone back in, so a single cent isn't lost along the way.
Most of these mistakes and shit releases can be smelt from a mile away; if they still bought in anyways, they're already a lost cause and gonna stick with it anyways. At most, you might be able to say nobody has confidence in a release being good anymore, but instead it's twisted into people having infinite confidence that things will be fixed in one way or another, so people buy shit games anyways.
Hello, I come from the future.
>Jar jars massive bombard wiener
Sounds like GOTD to me.
Hating popular stuff is normalgay behavior
Ganker likes Dark Souls 2
Before elden ring, DS2 was the least popular game, now people like DS2 for the sake of being "contrarian" they now like DS2 making it a mainstream game
This is not new. DS2 has always had it's vocal minority. People swore it was the best one in DS3 and BB threads.
No. I knew DS2 was the second best souls game the moment I played it. I swear there’s a real correlation between IQ and whether you prefer DS2 or Sekiro. Brains over reflexes.
What I find funny is despite IQ everyone agrees BB is first. Anytime someone puts DS2 over BB than your comment makes sense.
>Brains over reflexes.
are you implying ds2 is in any way difficult? haha
Huh? What a weird random adjective to just pull out of your ass.
you don't have to use your brain to defeat bosses in ds2.
Everything we are talking about is comparatively. DS2 involves more planning and patience, plus I appreciate the Nietzschein plot. The levels feel more Jungian in archetypes which is impossible to quantify but is my opinion all the same.
Sekiro has no equipment, no build differences to speak of, and just involves spamming block.
Again though, and I think this is the detail your not appreciating, I’m just speaking comparatively between souls games. In the end it’s all the same formula.
NTA. This is quite possibly the worst Ganker opinion I've seen in a long time, cheers. DS2 gays are always the most moronic posters in ANY souls thread.
>Nietzschian plot
>when its literally what people criticize DS3 for (OHHHH MEMBER DS1? DO YA? DO YA? WE LOVE DS1)
>Jungian in archetypes
>when they're all straight fricking lines until the DLC
DS2 was more popular AND more critically acclaimed than DS1
that's why it was the first big 'review bomb' game
It actually had the lead in critical rating until Elden Ring, which as a fan I think is hilarious.
>Before elden ring, DS2 was the least popular game
according to who, you enormous homosexual?
I always liked ds2 but only for its singleplayer. It had the absolute worst multiplayer mostly because of lag hits and lagstabs. Only later did they realize hit detection being fully on the attacker’s clientside was moronic.
ds2 has been my favourite souls game ever since i played sotfs
Ganker just hates ds2 because a youtuber told them to, or because an online socialist likes it. either way your opinion is informed by someone else
I admittedly never played sotfs, but ds2 was extremely dull. It was enjoyable for one run, but when I hit NG+ I just felt no desire to move forward. I set it down and never touched it again, unlike DS1, DeS, and BB. DS2 and 3 just weren't as good, but DS2 even more so.
funnily enough ds2 has the most expansive ng+ out of any fromsoft game. i dont know if those changes came from sotfs though because i never ng+'d the original release
It's from sotfs. Base game is just the exact same as NG
DS2 is significantly less than the sum of its parts.
>he bought a PC game twice
holy fricking moron hahahahahah
yeah for $10
cope
giving up so easily?
anons these days aren't shit.
you are so moronic that it hurts
boycotts certainly help. just look at how israelitenity shit its pants and is rolling back most of its israeli protection racket. that said, the pressure should stay on until they desist entirely.
unfortunately, since since the average mouthbreather lacks standards, he will gladly eat up whatever's placed on his lap, which greatly diminishes the impact of current day boycotts.
>muh review bombs
have a nice day corporate wienersucker
>yes, just swallow and must consume goy
shalom
This might be the single most dumb thing that has ever been posted on Ganker.
Ganker is truly the lowest IQ site on the internet.
now show us hjk.png through hhhhhhjkkkkkk.png
Except Baldurs Gate 3
And Armored Core 6
And Mortal Kombat
And Street Fighter 6
And FF16
Stop no those don't count
>two long-neglected franchises and three dead franchises with exclusively hanger-on install bases
how can zoomers review-bomb what they haven't heard of?
the biggest bombing right now is anti-Starfield because #snoysmad and it's still selling like a behemoth
It's not review bombing when it's actually shit, you moronic corporate shill. Frick off and go back to twitter.
the truth is that most people don't care if a game is shitty, as long as it's not THAT shitty (last saints row for example)
The video game market is now so massive that you don't need to put nearly in as much effort to make millions. That's the problem. The percentage of the audience that actually cares about the quality of video games is a minority that is constantly being overtaken by a growing number of people that have barely started playing games within the last 3 years. The number of people who enter the market who have no frame of reference for how good games can be is consistently expanding while the market of people who have been playing games for 10+ years is constantly shrinking.
Compound that with the fact that games are no longer projects by talented and passionate developers. They're all made-to-order by publishers milking IPs and getting all their hires off Linkedin. They don't fund projects cooked up by dev teams. They have a marketing team cook up an optimal release timeline then go out and hire teams of 5,000 unreleated, scattered people to "make a new Marvel game". They're all just given jobs and have no sense of unity or commitment to a project that means anything to them personally.
Truth. Video gaming got industrialized. It's a job. Game developers feel about their work same way everyone else. They put in the bare minimum to not get fired and live their life. It got so big almost all games and consoles are marketed to a normie market. All games are sanitized, using the same blueprint, barely functioning slop that would get bought regardless of whether it has 5000 bugs or if it looks and plays like ass. Whole genres have died because of this. Innovation is now something exclusively left to indie developers. You'll never play an RTS or a game like The Sting ever again.
>reddit screencap
Sigh
nerds have to be the most miserable and annoying people on earth. they are like this with everything. fricking nerds.
Reddit screenshot go ack
PC ports are still fricked up so no.
>release broken games, missing features, etc
>people react
>fix most issues, backpedal on some bullshit, discount it heavily on a sale
>morons buy and leave reviews saying 10/10 GOTY of century
Steam coming with that shit to hide a "suspicious period" or whatever is one of the worst shit they ever did. Their score should be tarnished forever if they release bullshit and frick with "early adopters" (because that's basically what you are if you buy games on release nowadays)
or maybe every "new major gaming release" is just bad
>starting to think you guys may be overreacting
No the triple a market is just slowly dying, There's going to be another 1983 style video game market crash soon
>the triple a market is just slowly dying
>keeps breaking sales records left and right
yeah sure buddy.
>Go woke go broke!
>ESG
It’s all so tiring
Yeah, the 5 studios that can afford making bazillion dollar games keep breaking records left and right since they are the only ones that can do it consistently nowadays.
For every Elden Ring theres a Forspoken or a saintsrow that bankrupts the company. Gaming is crashing.
and atari was going gangbusters in 1982
Its the worst garbage that generates all the revenue. The FIFAs, CoDs, and Fortnites and the various other season passed-roadmapped always online trash along with mobile trash print money while AAAs pump out the worst shit imaginable on top. The end result is less actual games from these studios and more casino MTX hell programs
Not even EA can manage to release consistent best sellers nowadays if it's not attached to some big IP man, shit's is clearly fricked.
Just because Rockstar will release GTA VI next year and it'll be the best selling piece of media in history doesn't mean the market is healthy, just like the other anon said, Atari was doing well when shit crashed in 1983, hell, Pitfall! is from 1982.
Last GTA made 8 billion. I’m sure this incredibly talented company will save no expense to make the perfect game. That said, I just cannot imagine a good game with a ugly Hispanic protagonist. I just can’t do it. I don’t know but I could see it flopping hard. And by flop I mean 6 around million sales which is still pretty good but.
It doesn't matter who's the character if the game's actually good. Just look at CJ, it's hard to beat that ugly bastard.
They are the billionaires, I’m probably wrong. I just have a hunch is all. Rockstar will be Starfeild disappointed.
VI won't surpass V, let alone GTAO.
The sale records HAVE to be broken with the absolutely ridiculous budgets of current AAA games.
The games getting shit on aren't breaking records
Breaking sales? these companies do not have organic support anymore. You may as well say forspoken was the best selling game of 2023.
Got, I fricking hope. We need another innovative, AA dominated era just like PS1/PS2. Tired of these minimum common denominator AAA slop.
Where one company rises from the ashes to control and dictate gaming for a decade and a half?
>steam
Haha, true. I’d invest so much if it was public.
Two more weeks
>There's going to be another 1983 style video game market crash soon
no
the games are shit but moronic goy cattle cosoomers pre-order EVERYTHING
if Flopspoken's marketing budget wasn't so high, and SE's sales *expectations* so high, it would still have been a success
payday 3 is mostly negative but look at how many hours all of the negative reviews have. they are still buying and playing it in droves.
the market is dying but consoomers literally can not stop consooming
Hey it's one of those morons who thinks vidya is some niche thing for nerds when in reality it is larger than the music or film industry. If vidya magically died it'd create a depression. It is not some tiny industry. It is not 4 decades ago. Also LE CRASH only happened in one fricking country
Cinema has been riding on Videogames for a while now, it is basically on animated suspension, waiting until people realize driving to stare at a wall is not cool.
Cinema will survive so long as socially awkward teens keep dating.
so not much frickin longer
the word you're grasping for is "inertia"
Hollywood needs to repurpose to Movie games, there will be a point where not a single Linear movie will be released.
>millions of people play the same gay say they don't like it on release
>"It's so popular, so you must be overreacting."
There's got to be some sort of fallacy involving populous for this sort of occasion.
Starting to think nobody releases good, solid, complete fricking games anymore. Devs aren't entitled to me purchasing $450 worth of DLC and then marketing their game for them.
I really hoped the witcher 3 would change things.
>buy new game
>it's bad
>leave negative review
>NOOOOOO UR HECKIN REVIEW BOMBING
>HOW DARE YOU GIVE AN OPINION ON SOMETHING YOU BOUGHT WITH YOUR OWN MONEY
If this was about fricking Goodreads or something, fair enough. But you can't review a game on Steam without owning it, and I'm not seeing armies of people buying then refunding it so they can review bomb it.
No, it's completely useless, so stop doing it already you go- I mean guys.
Steam reviews are largely useless. Most people doing the reviews aren't trying to inform you of anything, they're purely used for le epic updoots trying to be funny
They can only be trusted if there is enough time between or before release or a DLC. People get way too fricking emotional over those things and scores will be either way too low over bullshit or way too high off some goodwill they managed to cultivate and it becomes your job to figure out if that's justified.
>heh, negative reviews aren't working: see?
>so don't bother leaving them goys
Yes when the game is actually shit and the devs know it. When it's just moronic /misc/tards crying about moronic stuff, no, it doesn't work at all.
I have refrained from buying many, many games because they had mixed (or worse) Steam reviews. Thanks, Gabe!
Why are reddit screencap OPs allowed?
I dunno. Games don't feel fun anymore. I tend to find most unpaid reviews accurate
This might be the most cringe image I’ve ever seen.
let's not pretend like the opposite isn't true
giving thirdies access to the internet was a big mistake
you're not going to get any discussion about review bombing on a site filled with the exact demographic that review bombs
>OH NO THE COMPANYRINO REPUTATION AND SALES... SAVE ME Black personMAN!!!
why are they like this
Friendly reminder that it's not review bombing if you actually purchased the game. Don't let journos gaslight you.
> gaslight
No one would disagree with you. I hate that word so fricking much. Before adults would think their was a miscommunication or someone’s memory was flawed. Now everything you disagree with is someone manipulating you. Such a absolutely toxic victim mentality viewpoint.
Because that's what's happening. The expression had a clear meaning which was subverted so they could blame people expressing political views in reviews of "review bombing". It used to mean just morons who organized to drop reviews (or straight up botted) without actually playing the game. Notice how positive "review bombing" doesn't exist anymore.
No one should trust reviews anyway, scores are nothing but a number decided by a bunch of randoms, there's never been a solid criteria and it has always been marketing.
It killed Forespoken's studio.
We're winning so hard doomer Gankerros
Crashing this industry with no survivors LET'S GO
Dead By Daylight
has being passive aggressive with your consumer base ever worked?
Works for blizzard
reddit soiboy is unironically right here, people just freak the frick out because they think old game good new game bad
This is probably in response to Payday 3 which deserves it because today marks the fifth day in a row since launch that the servers are shitting the bed for the majority of the day.
The game itself is fun and the only thing I dislike about it in that regard is experience being tied to challenges instead of loot or heist completion, but it doesn't matter how good the game is when most people can't even play it after five days.
Whats the difference between a review bomb and a game getting bad reviews?
If a major company paid to make the game, it's a review bomb. Otherwise, it's a bad review.
Good games dont get "review bombed", lots of people having a negative experience is not the same as people giving a negative out of spite. See Darktide for another example.
>its just entitled gamers
No, the game is shit, get your act together.
Its almost like the devs/creators burn all the good faith in the community and they lose almost all the userbase and the only left are people that like to consume complete garbage?
Just disengage from this. Unplug. Get off of Ganker if you have to. Don't live this life. Don't go anywhere else, but don't stay here.
never post this troll's remorse projecting homosexualry ever again
no
this place is for troon trollposters and pathetic e-girl futa hentai addicted coomers
if you're in any way shape or form not one of the above homosexuals, go to keewee farms dot st where there's at least a bit better vidya discussion
unlike this shithole
I come here to trigger troons and make coomer homosexuals angry
should have waited until page 10 to try this cowardly tack, homosexual
I agree that this is the best place but also the worst place. The only real good places left are the places you create in real life with real people you meet.
This place used to have something going for it in that it was somewhere you could speak openly and be offensive, or combative when suitable, but given enough time it warped into you must be offensive and combative and there can be nothing else. Every interaction, or almost, is tinged with this. As much as I hate the unified censorious posture almost all other social media has taken, this isn't the remedy to it.
>le doomer zoomer of crab bucketing
Just do what you enjoy productively and seek like-minded individuals that you can have fun with.
marketers' fee-fee got hurt
Why are american women like this
any redditor here that can post on r/gaming that wouldn't mind posting my onimusha 2 video there? I don't have high enough karma
DC, WB, Nick, Cartoon Network, comics, Ubisoft, Arkane, even Marvel is reducing it's size aaand many others
People have been consooming like crazy this year, they'll play anything and it's worrisome
I'm not depressed so this webm does nothing for me
Sorry incel bro
shartfield and bg3 were good
Both of those people are moronic attention prostitutes
stop releasing bad games
he has no one else to blame for his misery but himself, god men are moronic
>pretending to be a troony
kys
whats this offtopic shit supposed to prove?
>guy is about to discover life is worthless to live
>prostitute is a prostitute
so?
For small community games, it definitely can work. Wrath of the Righteous had a hotfix within 4 hours of a patch releasing to take out telemetry stuff because people b***hed hard enough. For big games that normalgays will just buy anyway, it doesn't matter.
I just didn't like it. Simple as.
>Has review bombing ever worked?
no
but verified ownership negative reviews aren't review bombing
You are a Chud therefore your opinion is review bombing. Don't try to argue, it's just how it is.
A lot of negative reviews are just "it runs bad on my 1060 and i5 2500k, unoptimised!"
Series X runs Starfield on Medium-ish settings at 1440p, frick off expecting your 2016 hardware to do better.
>game looks from 2006
yes it should run from my 2016 hardware you moronic shill
starfield is objectively badly optimised
oh hey my build
>No relevant pic
I 100% blame this on fricking off-shore Indian devs. Once upon a time coding was 5-10 nerds in a basement in your City office somewhere. They were forced to work long hours, fed pizza and managed to shit out half a decent product.
Nowadays everythings fricking Agile, Scrum, Daily Standups and x50 off-shore Pajeets who can't code for shit. Have you seen the credits for Starfield? They recruited half of fricking Dehli and still can't even make a good product.
Fricking B2 visas
Why is it called review bombing? It's just a natural reaction to games so offensively bad, that they elicit a ton of passionate criticism and disapproval.
The company and devs bring it on themselves, they're the ones creating and releasing shit games, are people who play them just supposed to be docile, blind golems?
Because the game is bombing in the reviews. Bombing, like box office bombing, meaning to do poorly.
Review bombing referred to people bombing a game with bad reviews due to reasons not directly related to the game itself. Nowadays it's just used for any time the proles get uppity
>are people who play them just supposed to be docile, blind golems?
Yes.
reviews are a positivity circlejerk.
hence why steam marks reviews as "off topic" even if they're directly as a result of moronic decisions.
>Reddit screencap
Of
>Black person homosexual
>Bootlicker
>Shill
>Sheep
And His
>Shitty low IQ opinion
I Frickin' hate this losers sometimes more than the annoying Troons or the homosexuals just the worst "eat the Goyslop and don't complain" "corporations have feelings too" " muh devs" "critical thinking is le bad " "the hive mind is le good" .
>people have high expectations because new (expensive) tech
>release game
>it's same or worse than 10 year old games
>User reviews: mostly negative
>you are overreacting!!!
i dont know, you tell me why this keeps happening
it's also not every new major release, there are a few exceptions and they are rightfully praised
have high expectations because new (expensive) tech
This is why I prefer
>Hey remember that game you liked? Here's more of it
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRIPLE A STUDIO PUT A LOT OF MONEY IN THE GAME
>THAT AUTOMATICALLY MEANS IT MUST BE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Shut up and eat your SLOP
I think its gone a bit off the track lately, I expect most major releases to have shit reviews and 95% of them due to people not liking a company or stuff unrelated to the game.
I get that AAA vidya is pretty shit nowadays but its also insufferable to see all the people trying to fit in by making le funny bad review, plus as OP mentions, things that have a lot of buzz about them still normally end up making money.
It's more effective to avoid steaming hot pieces of shit rather than wading into them so that you can show off how smelly you are so that the next dumbfrick also tries it cause it looked funny
The people that are trying to fit in is in the minority. AAA titles have been abundantly and unanimously shit.
i'm going to negatively review every game i play because i don't want the game devs to be happy
moreover i'm going to berate anybody who plays the games i do because it's entertaining