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God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's like the Helldivers 2 incident, but for a single-player game, there's no excuse.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Publishers are trying to exclude "review bombing" because they think it's just social manipulation, while just casually ignoring that there are actual problems with the game. Review bombing used to be something else, but now be wary of it because it's usually them just trying to discredit actual concerns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can have actual concerns without abusing the review function, though. If you don't own and never planned to play the game and are "reviewing" it because something on the internet made you angry, then that just discredits the actual review platform as a whole.

Reviews should be an actual review, not a tweet reply. If you haven't actually played the game, don't review it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sure - problem is that publishers are not making that distinction and calling any mass negative review (like a bad release, or game crashing bug) "review bombing".