Speaking to GamesRadar+, he suggested the site could follow Steam's example, making users aware of massive swings of positive or negative reviews. Hoss has called on Metacritic to up its game. As an indie publisher, that's not the kind of expense Deck13 can take on if it wants to bring more games like Chained Echoes to its audience, but in the face of the faceless, voiceless opposition of a MetaCritic user score, that doesn't matter. He has no evidence to back up his ideas, but Hoss' assumption is that the review-bomb was in response to a decision to limit localisation on the game – referencing Spanish as an example, he cited a relatively small install-base against the significant cost of translating a 250,000-word story. #indiedev #metacritic #gamedev /Qit6pusT5F May 9, 2023 Didn't want to stop this nonsense? Guess only for AAA games. GTA 5 players rallied in defense of modding tools Crusader Kings fans protested rising prices Star Wars nuts turned on Battlefront II in their thousands after a disastrous launch plagued by loot boxes so prevalent they spawned anti-gambling legislation around the world. There are multiple examples of players rightly making their feelings known to often faceless organizations, too. The option to 'vote with your wallet' simply didn't exist as it might have done for a brand-new game.

In cases like the 2015 review-bomb of Skyrim – where players rallied against paid mods – what other recourse did the community have? The game had been out for four years. There is obvious value in a coordinated user response to practices that don't benefit the player. Every protest draws from the same playbook, the backlash almost always centered around the same few points of contention: performance issues, unpopular business practices like paid mods or DRM 'politics'.Īlmost every review-bomb follows these same patterns – so why has it taken so long for some of the biggest review sites in the world to do anything about them? Let's get Meta That coordinated backlash has set the tone for dozens, if not hundreds of similar efforts in the intervening decade and a half. It's been 15 years since the first 'review-bomb', when, in 2008, the anti-piracy protection applied to alien life-sim Spore saw it blasted by a wave of negative sentiment on Amazon. Horizon Forbidden West Aloy Pride inspired face paint

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