Review bombing on metacritic

[Nohiro]

So it looks like the woke mob is at it again.... surprinsingly 1 day before the release of a certain star wars game they went and downvoted massively Wukong on metacritic...

What do you think about this ? and why doing this weeks after the release ?

[Double]

I wish them luck. They have A LOT of overwhelming success to overcome lol

[someoneproud]

Because they're bitter and pathetic. 4,000 reviews out of 10 million players is hardly representative of the reception. The only reason they can tip the scales is because most people stopped caring about metacritic & this is the closest they're gonna get to a "win".

[wildgoose]

Originally posted by Nohiro:

So it looks like the woke mob is at it again.... surprinsingly 1 day before the release of a certain star wars game they went and downvoted massively Wukong on metacritic...

What do you think about this ? and why doing this weeks after the release ?

I really don't enjoy the political weaponization of game reviews. As somebody who hopes to ship a commercial game of my own one day, it has a chilling effect on what I'd like to achieve. It's not going to stop me from making games, but I feel like, no matter what, some busybody redditor is going to find some bone to pick with me about an irrelevant opinion I have and use that to smear my work. I hate to think that I could potentially release a 10/10 GOTY contender and it'd get review-bombed because some Wal-Mart hambeast didn't feel represented enough.

At its core, Wukong is a game about a talking monkey with a stick. It's made by Chinese developers who aren't representative of the Chinese government or their policies. God forbid anyone hold American developers to account for the negative stuff our government does. That being said, I've been really impressed with a lot of the indie titles I've been seeing come out of China recently. There's a huge western audience for them so hopefully they continue to cater to English speakers.

Anyways, I'm enjoying the game so far even though I'm getting my ass kicked. Have fun.

Edit: I want to add that this single player game has Denuvo DRM in it. This is usually the rallying cry for a lot of review-bombed games but for whatever reason (probably because this is well-liked), Denuvo is conveniently overlooked by most. Personally, I don't care, but this is more evidence to me that a lot of review-bombing is contrived/politically-motivated and not necessarily the result of the game sucking ass.

[Giganx]

User Reviews are generally useless.

And lets not act like this game didn't OBVIOUSLY get positive review bombed on steam.

[Pnume]

Originally posted by Giganx:

User Reviews are generally useless.

And lets not act like this game didn't OBVIOUSLY get positive review bombed on steam.

A lot less useless than corrupted journalists and activists posing as journalists.

[zero.calvin]

let them review bomb, no gamer will buy game base on metacritic score.

[Giganx]

Originally posted by Pnume:

Originally posted by Giganx:

User Reviews are generally useless.

And lets not act like this game didn't OBVIOUSLY get positive review bombed on steam.

A lot less useless than corrupted journalists and activists posing as journalists.

The journalist reviews were pretty much right on the money with this game, leaving it at a respectable 8/10. While the journalists write a lot of clickbait nonsense articles their actual reviews are usually decent.

It's the users who flood review sites with 100% politically motivated trash.

[Warbreaker]

it doesn't matter, this game sold over 10m copies in less than a week, ignore them, don't even talk about them, don't engage, they will evaporate away like the mist when the sun comes up.

[Binky]

Why can't people just enjoy a good game? I'm thinking of getting it cause it looks nice.

[-Euthanasia Quietus]

concord bots what u expect they used the other 99 million for? they used it for trying to slander and massively waste their talentless energy into hating a better succesful game . such clowns these bots