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I hope those people get a ban from reviewing games or something. I know it's difficult for some people to imagine, but most of us just want to know about the damn game.
They won't get banned but Steam will likely mark this wave as "Off-topic review activity". When this happens you can toggle visibility of these reviews.
One of Steam's better recent innovations
Thanks I wasn't fully aware of this action, and it seems better for folks who want to game to escape. I'll be checking this setting shortly.
I reported some of those as "political argument that is unrelated to the game, developer or publisher", I don't think anything will happen tho
It doesn't happen immediately but it does happen.
A few years ago, there was a wave of dumbfucks who would visit cosy games and spam "Woke" and "DEI" over and over in the forums/reviews. I don't even see it anymore.
Going to bet the edge lords got Shadow banned or something.
Same here, I reported them all for "Political argument that is unrelated to the game, developer or publisher"
I hear you but I disagree, I absolutely support the right to use means like reviews to boycott companies. It's just being done for all the wrong reasons here
I disagree, there have been many times in the past where review bombing a game works out for the right reasons.
If there were more right wing idiots then they might've been successful
Sadly, steam heavily disagrees with this statement. They would rather have full opinions allowed regardless, and then delist them when reported as offtopic so they still appear, but don't show in the score.
I disagree with that mentality as well, since I'm sick of seeing games have shit reviews, then look at them and its because of something that the parent company did instead of it being about the game itself.
They do the same shit with steam discussions. I heavily think they should community ban people reported for using the clown reaction award with the intent to be rude or mean to the person they are awarding it to, and the people doing blatent circlejerk/rage baiting in the communities, but until it becomes a problem that risks them getting investigated again like before, they won't.
The context surrounding a game is important, though. these are just Nazis and should have their opinion disregarded, but all of Nintendo's slop should be hated purely for the context of Nintendo being evil. any developer than stands for good things should also get a boost in positive reviews too (although that doesn't happen enough, maybe because the only ones i can think of off hand are just good regardless?).
As much as I like knowing about companies that I buy from, if I'm on a product page, looking at a product review, I'm expecting the product review, not the moral compass of the company. If I wanted to see the controversies the company is involved in, I would search the company online.
If the controversy involves the game sure, but if the only association to the game is that the publisher or dev made it, then I really don't want it in the reviews, that's not what I'm looking for.
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yeah, but what about our lord and saviour, charlie kirk?? HE WAS A GOOD MAN! /s