Them replying to every single negative review is the saddest ♥♥♥♥ ive seen

[Elroy]

You ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ surprised? Your magnum opus failed? Its 2023 you absolute idiots. What the ♥♥♥♥ do you expect when you release this outdated piece of ♥♥♥♥ in 2023????

[Wolf]

They’ve actually stopped now because a bunch of YouTubers called them out for being embarrassing and gas lighting customers. I bet they feel really stupid right about now.

They’re clearly too pretentious and egotistical to admit their own mistakes and that’s why they will always fail, they’re making games for themselves not the fans.

[Krudtugle]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

What I find interesting is the defensiveness of the devs.

Not weird at all. They have to defend their product since it's their livelyhood. It's damage control.

What's weird is the fanbase who is so invested in defending it for free. At least we have to assume a small portion of these people are not on a payroll.

[AdahnGorion]

They deleted them actually. Because they found out how much bad press they got for it and just how angry players have been with it.

Lucky enough a user saved some of them with a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDIB0sgMmJ0

[Krudtugle]

Originally posted by AdahnGorion:

They deleted them actually. Because they found out how much bad press they got for it and just how angry players have been with it.

Lucky enough a user saved some of them with a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDIB0sgMmJ0

The artificial AI voices just perfectly reflect the artificial, corporate wording of those answers. Pure gold!

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

What I find interesting is the defensiveness of the devs.

For all we know, the actual developers of the game as released were all vaporized by gigantic alien tripods

[Silverlight]

Originally posted by katzenkrimis:

Originally posted by Silverlight:

They want to turn the review scores around.

If they really wanted to damage control, they would have had honest marketing.

You are part of the problem because you say that like Starfield deserved the incessant negativity that it received.

Andromeda didn't. Neither did Starfield.

I could make a list of other video games in recent years that also received the same treatment. I have to use the word recent because it's only been a decade of stupidity from the younger generation and consoles that are the cause of all this crap.

Disinformation campaigns run rampant in this industry today. That's why you are seeing another version of 'Team Backpack' here, trying to tamp down the lies.

Everybody thinks that they are a professional critic today. They don't even go to school and get a degree to work in the entertainment industry anymore, like I did. They have no writing skills, art skills, editing skills, camera skills, or sound skills. They start a YouTube channel and claim to know everything.

People shovelling the sh--. Brainwashing as many gullible weevils as they can.

Look how many people were brainwashed by Ass Mango, Angry Joe, and Mack's reviews this time around. Their videos were re-posted in this forum hundreds of times. Somebody was eating the faeces that they were shovelling.

Things went south in this industry sometime after the release of Witcher II, which was twelve years ago. That's when gamers began to draw lines in the sand and ask, "What is this console crud? I want a refund."

Today, they've taken their criticisms to unprofessional levels of hatred.

You should know by now that Steam reviews are BS. The slagging of video games across the internet has reached alert status red. Mob-mentality. It's become a sport for the immature and unknowledgeable types.

Dog-piling on video games is now commonplace because this multi billion-dollar industry is full of ungrateful snakes. We don't play games for fun anymore. It's a competition. My d--- is bigger than yours. All done through their mindless keyboards.

That a Team Backpack even bothers anybody here is the funny part. The verbal obliteration of a video game is fine, no holds barred. But when the developer chimes in, you're not okay with it.

Sure man. Make that list into a video.

I'm sure a Positive Starfield video comparing it to the legacy of Andromeda would go viral.

I'm sure it would do just as well as Asmongolds videos because so many people share your opinion

[Jᴧgᴧ]

FYI, if they are truly done with deflecting on the negative reviews, I'll give people a hint of the next deflection tactic they're likely to pull out: DLC info and screenshots.

We'll see if any more Dev review responses come up though - they may have simply taken a short break.

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by Troldmand:

Originally posted by AdahnGorion:

They deleted them actually. Because they found out how much bad press they got for it and just how angry players have been with it.

Lucky enough a user saved some of them with a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDIB0sgMmJ0

The artificial AI voices just perfectly reflect the artificial, corporate wording of those answers. Pure gold!

Indeed the user really captured it.
But I actually don´t think most people that like Starfield cares about story, emotions or interactions between characters, if they did... they would have refunded.

Don´t get me wrong, nobody is saying you should like that, I am just saying that they should stop trying to claim Starfield is some GOTY RPG with innovation.. its not.. RPG wise its a step back.. Its fun for people that wanna go shooter looter happy and griend.. but there is no emotion.. its soulless to me. (and even if I am biased against modern Bethesda games, I still liked Skyrim enough to play it and feel emotions)

Here is a good showcase of how I feel (I agree with alot of what this person says)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL6sK8w5JtA

[Soulstain]

It was supposed to carry them through for several years with people putting in 1000's of hours like Skyrim but that ain't happening. It was also supposed to drive Xbox gamepass subscriptions but I don't think that's happening either. Fallout 76, Redfall and now Starfield. Not looking good.

[Majestic-Casual™]

Actually its not a person responding to reviews. It's a bot of some sort. Luke Stephens did a video about it today. Proving it was a bot that Bethesda support was using instead of manually responding to reviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prXWnZN5wsk&t=753s

[[-iD-]]

Originally posted by Silverlight:

Originally posted by -iD-:

fun fact whoever is doing this epic anti-trolling is being paid while they do it.

Good thing it's an AI chat bot.

They need pocket change

i doubt its ai, unless you got proof.

[Groogo]

A Discord gaming friend told me a couple of weeks ago "Don't buy Starfield, it sucks". I asked, How long did you play Starfield? He replied "I didn't, it's what I read". I said, I have almost 600 hours in Starfield and I like it. He replied "Oh".

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by Groogo:

A Discord gaming friend told me a couple of weeks ago "Don't buy Starfield, it sucks". I asked, How long did you play Starfield? He replied "I didn't, it's what I read". I said, I have almost 600 hours in Starfield and I like it. He replied "Oh".

That is pretty typical. Sadly many are sheep these days.

Like this OP, if BGS posts a response to a review, they are charged with degrading the reviewer even though nothing in the response actually does. It is worded for those reading the review and the response, not to the the original reviewer.

If BGS does not respond then the claim becomes that they are lazy, don't care about the game or players.

These people will twist the narrative to fit there hate. In the end only they will suffer. They will never enjoy life and end up bitter,

[Maya]

Originally posted by TracerHD:

You ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ surprised? Your magnum opus failed? Its 2023 you absolute idiots. What the ♥♥♥♥ do you expect when you release this outdated piece of ♥♥♥♥ in 2023????

I understand how your friend feels, but as a review and recommendation it doesn't sound serious. Anyway, he/she has the right to express his/her feelings on steam.

But what I had read about Bethesda's team response is ridiculous.
It sounds like they are explaining the game to kindergarteners.
At the same time, it seems that they insert advertising in the answer.

If the devs really care about feedback, shouldn't the question be about how to improve the game?

[Slackerdude74]

Nah it's not sad not at all it's funny actually it's really funny, because they are just going along with the on going joke as in most of the negative reviews are nothing but a joke.
That's because most of the negative reviews are childish and full of crap just like the Bethesda response to all of those negative reviews.
So yea it's funny as hell.