• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Ah yes, review bombed the new catchphrase from game journalist used to dismiss justified consumer complaints.

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      5 months ago

      At this point to me, review bombed just means many people are unhappy with a product, likely for notable reasons. Any other connotation added would require me to trust the integrity of the journalist using the phrase, which is a bar they have almost universally decided doesn’t matter, particularly when it comes to media journalism of any sort.

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      5 months ago

      I feel it should only be used for when there’s some agenda pushing going on (like the whole woke crying whenever the incels are triggered by something), not for legit reviews due to malpractice from the devs or publishers or whatever.

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        From what I’ve seen it’s almost always malpractice due to devs/publisher.

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          Nah. I’ve seen plenty of examples where people rather cried about people of color, females, gay people, etc.

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            5 months ago

            Large scale reviewing bombing where that is the focus?

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      5 months ago

      The words change, the business stays the same. Been that way since mass effect 3 and dragon age 2, at least.

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      Review bombed basically means we’ll continue to play the game and give you money, but we are very upset about it.

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        5 months ago

        You can review and refund a game and the review will stay up. Reviews definitely impact sales.

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    5 months ago

    Wasn’t that the loveless corporate game that had all the cities literally just copied and rotated by a teeny bit?

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      I think of the it as the game that handed out vac bans to people because of inactivity, effectively fucking over a lot of people for the simple crime of no longer playing. (Vac bans only matter for the game that supplied them, but there’s a lot of games and servers of games that check your vac ban status and won’t let you play if you have one, no matter the source)

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      5 months ago

      Yes. And there were only like 6 “mob” models and the entire game was just recolors of them.

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      5 months ago

      To be fair, they reworked a fair bit of that and some more.

      Which is actually the issue now - they keep reworking and improving stuff, but there is little new content. I feel like the game is just leaving it’s imaginary Early Access now. The new version coming probably should’ve been the launch version.

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    5 months ago

    What’s bad about the re-release? I read the article and it honestly sounds like it’s trying to improve the game. I must be missing something.

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      This has been a universal problem with any MMO game that tries to have some kind of a resource grind/time sink. Even if you can manage to stop players from botting it, you can’t stop players from third world countries selling their time to players in first world countries. The game economy quickly becomes a reflection of real world capitalism that most of its players were trying to escape.