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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If real people hate your game because of the changes you made from the last one (that you took away from them), that's not a review bomb.

It's just a review.

[–] CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the game/steam release definitely deserved bad reviews - but it'd be hard to deny that it wasn't also a bombing run.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

A review bomb is when people start jumping down the game's throat with negative reviews for shit unrelated/peripheral to the game. If they're triggered by the actual core design choices of the game it isn't a review bomb.

These reviews are because the game is a money grubbing downgrade from the game people bought and had taken away from them, and this is the first opportunity they had to publish a review on a storefront. The motivation being the actual game means it can't be a review bomb.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If they're still playing the game anyway, I might call that a review bomb.

[–] hook@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

No, it's still a review because you're still actively dealing with whatever it is you're complaining about.

"Hey, I really like/liked the core game play loop of this game but I think that it's gotten significantly worse than it was previously. It'd be nice if they changed it back?

4/10."

[–] 520@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plenty of people leave negative reviews for games they otherwise play. Especially where big changes are put into effect

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's the exact recipe for ensuring that they don't change it back.

[–] 520@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's depends on the business model. For one-off payment games, it still does considerable damage, whereas they don't gain much by you continuing to play.

For subscription games, your point stands much stronger.

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[–] cre0@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So overwatch 2 is objectively terrible, but putting that aside for a moment…

Can you seriously not envision a scenario where you personally do a thing (maybe even enjoy that thing), but still wouldn’t recommend it to others?

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[–] crossmr@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So if General motors was using slave labour to build their cars and feeding said labour with baby kittens, would you consider it a review bomb for someone to say 'You shouldn't buy the latest vehicle from General motors because of the way it is made'?

What if general motors came out and said that they think a great start to the day is to wake up and punch a dutchman in the face?

A review is, ultimately, a recommendation of whether or not you think other people should buy this product. If you can't recommend it because of something the company who made it did, to me, it's still a review. Because recommending that product is recommending financial support of that company. Not recommending it, is not supporting them.

For me a real review bomb would occur generally only in a case where a site like 4chan might suddenly spin a wheel of mayhem and pick a random game to just go shit on or something like that.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

By definition, yes, that's a review bomb. It has no connection in any way to the quality of the product, which is what a review is.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You're entirely disconnected to reality if you think Overwatch 2 deserves to be the worst-reviewed game on Steam.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On Steam being reviewed poorly is not a matter of rating from 1 to 10, but how many people would recommend it or not. It's completely valid that the vast majority of people would not recommend this game even if it's not a 0/10.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

yes obviously, and none of that changes anything about the fact that very clearly OW2 isn't bad enough to deserve the title of worst rated game on steam

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

You tried to argue with someone else over this, but the fact that more people played it, being F2P, means that more people can agree that they wouldn't recommend it. Given how Steam ratings work, that makes it the worst rated. There's no arguing how it is. You seem to take an issue with it as if it meant Gabe Newell personally stamped it with a 0/10, which is not how it works.

In Steam, being 4/10 for thousands of people is worse than being 0/10 for a couple people.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Based on what?

The negatives are extremely bad, and people are legitimately reviewing the game negatively because they legitimately think it's a pile of shit.

It is literally unconditionally impossible for it to be a review bomb if the reviews are motivated by the core design decisions of the game.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Today's concurrent player peak is ~47k.

Why would 47k people choose to play the game when it's the worst game on Steam? Literally worse than a game like Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge that fundamentally doesn't function correctly. For reference, its peak today was about 20 players.

Before you reply with something like "marketing", you seriously think that if Bad Rats launched today, and with the same marketing budget as OW2, that it would achieve anywhere close to 47k players peak 10 months after its release?

Like I said: you're disconnected from reality if you think OW2 is the worst game on Steam.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did bad rats deliberately steal a game people liked to replace it with an addiction machine?

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

deliberately steal a game people liked to replace it with an addiction machine

what the actual fuck are you talking about

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The reason Overwatch 2 is the worst reviewed game Steam has ever had?

A bad game does a lot less harm than a game that seems good on the surface then tries to rob you blind.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

by "tries to rob you blind" you mean a game with entirely optional additional purchases?

wow you're right they really get you with that "you can pay if you want" model

it's practically criminal definitely worthy of being the worst ranked game on steam

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as a microtransaction that is not pure unredeemable evil.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

then please explain why Counter Strike Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, Dota 2, etc. don't deserve to have the same rating

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As far as I'm concerned they do. But my opinion doesn't decide the rating of a game any more than yours that's it's supposedly a better game than bad rats.

It's a product of everyone who votes giving their opinion, and the entire steam userbase has come to the consensus that Overwatch 2 is a particularly egregious example of it.

It cannot possibly be a review bomb when the reviews are legitimate opinions based on what the game is.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

supposedly a better game than bad rats

the previously referenced games all sit above 80% positive and yet have the exact same problems that you cite as OW2's reason for being bad

legitimate opinions

"the zeitgeist has told them that the game is bad" is not a legitimate reason for not liking OW2, hence accusations of review bombing

if you think there are legitimate reasons OW2 deserves the rating it has, by all means please provide them, but so far all you've given me are #badthings that also apply to basically all the popular F2P games on Steam.

[–] cre0@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because it’s a F2P game that is monetized as such and exists only to make the game I bought obsolete.

I bought a game.

The game I have now is not the game I bought.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

correct: it's a different game

reviewing it because it's not Overwatch 1 is by definition review bombing

[–] cre0@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

it’s the game they gave me to replace the game i purchased.

if i bought a toyota camry, and 2 years later toyota said “sorry we can’t let you continue using your camry, here’s a corolla” you better fucking believe i’d be trashing toyota in every public space possible to warn potential customers.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"i wanted a camry not a corolla" is not a valid review of a corolla

[–] cre0@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It absolutely is if I bought a Camry and got a Corolla.

Enjoy life in prescriptive hell my guy 🙄

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[–] 520@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Those games are not nearly as aggressive in their attempts to get you to buy shit. CSGO? a tiny ass fucking button to buy Prime. TF2? Don't even remember seeing a shop button.

OW2? Makes the worst, money hungry mobile free-to-play blush with how aggressive it tries to sell you shit.

And they killed OW1, just for this.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

tf2 drops crates every 30 minutes that's literally just an advert for the in-game store (which has a dedicated button pretty clearly labelled on the main menu)

pretty sure CSGO does the same

[–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

CSGO does not do the same. I play that one regularly.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

you're saying CSGO doesn't drop crates?

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[–] 520@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The original Overwatch, which had none of this shit and was a one-off payment, was killed off in favour of OW2

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

leaving a negative review because of that would by definition be review bombing, because at that point you're not reviewing the game, but external context that surrounds it

[–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not really. Reviewing the game as OW with enshittification is a perfectly reasonable review of OW2 in and of itself.

Especially if the publishers made the one-off purchase version unusable just to push people onto the enshittified one.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"i liked overwatch 1" is not a valid review of the game overwatch 2, and people leaving reviews to that effect en-masse is pretty textbook review bombing

[–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Yes it is. It's perfectly valid.

It says that the changes in Overwatch 2 are unpopular with the reviewer.

If the changes were positive or even unnoteworthy, that review wouldn't be there

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[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are really trying to downplay the power of marketing, but you seem to realize that gets people playing. Not only that but live service design is very effective at keeping people playing even when they are not having any fun whatsoever. Because they gotta grind the battle pass and such. Extrinsic rewards and habit-forming conditioning making up for a lack of intrinsic enjoyment.

Still, I would agree with you that it's not the worst game on Steam, but like I mentioned in the other comment, that's not what steam ratings mean. It means that the vast majority people would not recommend it, and that seems pretty reasonable.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

bf2042 had a playercount in the high 1000s 2 months after its launch

ow2 released 10 months ago

are you saying bf2042 didn't have marketing?

which is more likely:

  • 50k people have been brainwashed into playing the game every day, and similar numbers into watching it on twitch
  • there is review bombing
[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn't look like you even read my full comment so I'm gonna wait till you do.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i mean i ignored the second part because it was irrelevant

"You're entirely disconnected to reality if you think Overwatch 2 deserves to be the worst-reviewed game on Steam." doesn't say "deserves to be the worst game", so if we're playing the reading game maybe you should take the first turn

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, so you have no response to it so you are gonna pretend it doesn't matter. I see.

I could say I'd do the same but nothing you are saying now even addresses what I already responded to you, so I'll just call it a job done.

[–] Primarily0617@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

yes good job you failed to read my comment again 👏👏