Probably the worst user score in history, 1.9.
That means nothing.
To quote one review:
Jul 19, 2023
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So yeah ,that is a really meaningful review.
Something that should really be taken seriously LOL
Oh my, looks like critics are “review bombing” the game. I bet the people saying it exists won’t call it “review bombing”, though. Because it’s positive feedback. They expose themselves so easily.
Your question is stupid, and since you’re arguing from a false pretence that review bombing ‘doesn’t exist’ when it does and has affected multiple games, there’s no point engaging with it.
Also another thing to consider.
Say a game comes out and it literally is broken and doesn’t work. For example say Cyberpunk on PS4 or No Man’s Sky at release.
It just came out. The idea that people legitimately reviewing negatively in this short time frame is a bomb is simply ignorant.
And of course start of season is a short time frame players will voice their opinions based on quality for Diablo 4.
For some, season 1 was to make or break it for them.
Thank you for proving my point. You don’t have the first clue what you’re talking about. You can’t even admit that flooding positive reviews on a game is “review bombing”. You can’t even stay consistent with your own definition of the term.
Except it’s not a false pretense. I gave you an example, using your definition of “review bombing”, and you have denied it exists. You have actually ended up agreeing with me that “review bombing” doesn’t exist by saying that positive “review bombing” doesn’t exist.
It is, and until you start to acknowledge reality you’re not worth engaging with. I’d have better luck trying to convince a flat earther that the world is round.
Imagine how foolish the ppl must be to look at metacritic score and act like it holds any value.
Pretty much everyone who leaves reviews there are mad neckbeards or trolling. There are terrible games with high scores simply because the female characters got “personality”.
U see plenty of d2 fanatics and poe players constantly bashing d4 on this forum. Alot of them simply does it because their main game is losing players because of d4.
This for example is a review of a barbie game, u srsly take such things serious?
“Review bombing” is a large number of people, or a few people with multiple accounts, posting user reviews. By that definition, it can be positive or negative feedback. Where are the complaints about positive “review bombing”?
The ONLY time you ever hear the accusation of “review bombing” is when the feedback is negative. And yet many dev/pubs have been caught buying reviews, resulting in positive “review bombing”.
Player feedback is not “review bombing”, regardless of the quantity, quality, or positive/negative. “Review bombing” does not exist. Period.
I am not saying that people on this forum are negative for the sake of being negative.
The site the OP is talking about does have that problem.
It’s a kind of group thinking that plays a role.
Companies buying reviews isn’t review bombing, it’s fraud IMO.
And are easy to spot, because those reviews just look fake and over the top.
You won’t see that here on this forum.
You want to sell a product and hire a company that makes positive reviews for a living, you pay thousands of dollars and hope that consumers fall for it.
Look at the traffic on this forum… you really think it happens on this site?
If Blizzard was like that they would also delete accounts that gave negative feedback.
And Blizzard does have(believe it or not) a good reputation that pans decades.
Metacritic’s user section serves exactly one purpose. Which is to allow the people who post bad reviews there to then point back to it and say “see, look how valid and important my opinion is”. No one ever, ever talks about how a game had good User Reviews on Metacritic. Frankly, no one really talks about good user scores in the professional review section either.
In terms of internet debate, it simply serves as “evidence of failure” that people rooting for that failure can actively manipulate, because they are the ones most emotionally attached to that outcome. The 5000 people who left those reviews represent the most extreme viewpoint on the game, because they are the only ones who care enough to waste time leaving one.
A cursory sampling of the reviews in question also reveal astounding deficiencies in the ability to spell and construct anything resembling a sentence or paragraph. I would personally be embarrassed to tears to put something like that out for public consumption. If you can’t even bother to express your thoughts in coherent manner, your opinion isn’t worth the time you spent typing it, which in many of these cases seems to be 30 seconds.
On that we can definitely agree. Metacritic is about on par with Rotten Tomatos with credibility. Sadly, devs/pubs actually take it seriously.
Because RB doesn’t exist. And I would agree that buying reviews could be classified as fraud.
Well, interns are paid, and a lot of the white knight posts reek of “paid intern” posting. No way to prove they’re actually interns, but I struggle to believe customers of any product of D4’s quality would actually defend it like the WKs do here.
They expose themselves so easily.