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That’s literally the point, though. There are some easy steps to avoid it too.
Imo that's not review bombing, that's just reviewing. Review bombing should be used for unwarranted reviews, such as "muh wokeism" type shit.
I disagree. imo review bombing is more like a protest or boycott. a collective action that may or may not be justified
That's exactly what these companies and gaming journalists refer to as review bombing though. It's just a way to stop consumers from using the one weapon we have
As much as I get your point someone leaving a negative review because of (perceived) political elements in a game they don't like is still a valid review
Leaving a negative review over people of color, women, women in power, homosexual relationships, etc. etc. is absolutely not a valid review. Stop normalizing bigotry.
There is an easy solution to prevent "review bombing". Don't make shitty games and don't act like an idiot in public.
I hope it does. And if that's a problem for them, Then they shouldn't have canceled a title that many had bought during early access under the impression that it'd eventually reach proper release. Not only did they leave many players hanging, but they laid off all the devs with no announcement, and the unfinished game is still for sale.
I'm not sure what game you're referencing.
Kerbal Space Program 2. All people working on the game were fired at the end of June, with the studio as a whole shut down. No announcement has been made. The only reason we know is because of state laws requiring public disclosure in advance of layoffs.
Holy crap, they're learning...
Or they are putting pressure on platforms to block "review bombing". That probably won't work on Steam, so it's kinda of a moot point.
Why? Steam has come out and labelled legitimate criticism of games a 'review bomb' in the past. They're more than happy to bend over for big publishers like this.
They added a feature that changed what review score you see based on a preference to see what may or may not be review bombs, I can't remember exactly what it's called, but I haven't seen them react to so called review bombs since.
https://kotaku.com/superhot-game-gets-review-bombed-after-removing-depicti-1847352470
This was in direct response to changes in the game, any negative reviews because of changes made to the game are legitimate reviews, not a 'review bomb'.
triggering Valve’s anti-review-bombing tech to kick in and filter out the flood of bad-faith evaluations.
https://kotaku.com/valve-says-it-will-remove-off-topic-review-bombs-from-s-1833332643
“We’re going to identify off-topic review bombs, and remove them from the Review Score.”
Of course Steam is the arbiter of what they deem 'off-topic'
The "Store content policy" option made it so Valve doesn't have to manually do anything about "review bombs" or review bombs, which is a very Valve way of handling it.
Bringing up incidents from 3 or 5 years ago kinda solidifies that point, they put it up to the algorithm and don't manually get involved.
They even say in that article, as an update, that they aren't removing reviews. This function lets a user decide what they consider relevant, without removing reviews, and most importantly for Valve means they don't have to manually do anything.
They still could, but again you found articles from years ago, they wanted a solution that requires less work for them and stopped the headlines, and that seems to have worked.
I was just thinking of this. I seem to remember someone having the nerve to refer to review bombing as harassment and did something to prevent it at some point. That said, we've since had the debacle with Helldivers 2 so... we'll see?
Edit: Fixed typo