Review bombing sounds like a fake issue tbh.

[Vendicator Senpai]

I don't really get how a lot of a negative reviews = a problem.

[sfnhltb]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von lsdninja:

It’s only a problem if you consider user reviews a useful and reliable source of information.

They are, I have purchased many hundreds of games based on just user reviews and the screenshots available and never had any problems of getting something substantially different to what I expected.

Regarding review bombing specifically if a bunch of people that act like spoiled brats get told by some youtuber or twitcher they should be outraged about something, there are plenty of other places already for their tantrums, the review system is not a good place for it.

[Kamiyama]

I would argue that reviews are too positive across the board. I think most games are over-hyped and don't reflect the reality of how good a game is.

How many games on Steam have a review score of over 90%? There are thousands of them and I'm not convinced even half of them are worthy of such a high score.

[Azza ☠]

Review bombing can occur and does actually affect smaller companies. Some can be for valid reasons and others not so much.

A quality game developer can take even negative criticism into consideration and show a better positive outcome as a result. So positive and negative doesn't really matter, unless it's not actual constructive criticism.

[Magic A. I.]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Vendicator Senpai:

I don't really get how a lot of a negative reviews = a problem.

Suppose you are an indie developer, making a game that competes with whatever Activision/Blizzard or Ubisoft released lately. They start a stealthy marketing campaign (troll army) to review bomb your game. Their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ conveyor belt garbage keeps the monopoly. Your game is now dead.

Suppose review bombing is prohibited, and Activision/Blizzard, EA, Sony, or Ubisoft make a really bad design decision post-release, and people react to it by posting negative reviews. That is then considered a review bombing and dismissed. Their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game stays on the market and nobody pays attention to that indie developer who did everything right.

Either way, they win and you lose.

[Schindler's Lifts]

My stance on review bombing has been very consistent. Review bombings are only justified if the action that warrants the review bomb will negatively affect a player's experience with the game.

Valid reason to review bomb:
Players review bombed GTA V because Take Two was sending a cease & desist to OpenIV, which if it had went through, would have made single player modding of the game impossible.

Not a valid reason to review bomb:
Players review bombed Firewatch because the devs said some stuff about Pewdiepie on Twitter.

[InfamousBozo]

Yea it's just corporations bot and shills fighting each other

[Meister Donut]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Vendicator Senpai:

I don't really get how a lot of a negative reviews = a problem.

Review bombing and the newest form, disguised review bombing is actually a huge problem on Steam. Instead of rating games fairly, many knuckleheads just troll or lie in the review sections to discredit companies and spread their political bs on this platform. Imho Valve should go Epic’s way and even suspend the current review system for a certain period of time until people learn to behave.

[Vendicator Senpai]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Donut:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Vendicator Senpai:

I don't really get how a lot of a negative reviews = a problem.

Review bombing and the newest form, disguised review bombing is actually a huge problem on Steam. Instead of rating games fairly, many knuckleheads just troll or lie in the review sections to discredit companies and spread their political bs on this platform. Imho Valve should go Epic’s way and even suspend the current review system for a certain period of time until people learn to behave.

Doubt

[Kiryn]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Vendicator Senpai:

I don't really get how a lot of a negative reviews = a problem.

When it's a lot of negative reviews, because some dudes with an agenda organized on Reddit/4chan/etc, to go to a site and drop a huge pile of negative reviews Because Reasons. . . then it's a problem.

[Your_White_Knight]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Vendicator Senpai:

Review bombing sounds like a fake issue tbh.

I don't really get how a lot of a negative reviews = a problem.

It is...

"review bombing" just means a ~lot~ of people don't like something and a few that do complain

[Pierce Dalton]

Who takes Steam reviews seriously, anyway?

Some people write negative reviews for completely stupid reasons, like a game not working on Steam Deck. When did the developer say it would work, though?

[Birds]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von InfamousBozo:

Yea it's just corporations bot and shills fighting each other

Well how do the review-reading public know who won unless they fight??