Most of the negative reviews are citing bad launch, greedy monetisation, OW1 being shut down, terrible BP, game being stripped of features from OW1, 5v5 instead of 6v6, worse graphics, locked heroes, failed account migration, less tactical gameplay. Imo they’re not wrong.
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I don’t usually pay credit to user score and mostly read the reviews. But it looks like your standard Blizzard release so far, that is devoid of care towards the casual player’s experience. All Blizzard cares about is how much money they can milk out of their players before the player realise they’re being milked (if ever).
Overwatch 2 is a content patch dressed up as a “new” release. Shame to see people actually celebrating this behaviour from a AAA studio.
Well I can’t control nor affect genuine trolls who review bomb just for the sake of review bombing. Nor do they affect me directly.
I personally am not affected by reviews, as I thoroughly research any game I may be interested in. Whenever I see a title review bombed however, I do in fact check out why did it receive negative reviews. Because clearly people are not happy with it, despite some trolls who do it just because they want to.
I’ve seen plenty of ridiculous review bombs and plenty of genuine ones. An example of a stupid review bomb is CDPR. Despite Cyberpunk being a terrible launch experience, people went on to review bomb other CDPR titles such as the Witcher games, which had nothing to do with Cyberpunk. That is a stupid review bomb.
A good example however is when Total War Three Kingdoms was abandoned completely with its bugs in a horrible state, I gave the game a negative review despite it being positive for a year. Because they abandoned the game in a terrible buggy state with an insane amount of gamebreaking bugs and imbalances, despite promising fixes, patches, DLCs and expansions. The decision to kill the game literally came out of nowhere and surprised everyone who loved the game.
I gave it a genuine user negative review, which also got flagged as a “review bomb” on Steam due to massive negative reviews that followed, despite it not being so whatsoever. I simply could not recommend the game anymore as they would be buying a horribly unstable buggy mess. This is an example that customers are not happy.
So yes, there are people who submit troll reviews, however majority of negative reviews during such periods are actually genuine with good reasons, even if they don’t care to submit a properly constructed review. Reviews are invented so customers can express their experience, no matter whether positive or negative.
OW2 is nothing worth being excited about, as it doesn’t have even that 1% of hype nor quality nor soul that Overwatch 1 had, at least to me. I personally do not care a single bit for OW2, despite being with OW since the moment it got announced to the final hour before it got killed.
dont care tbh. i’m having a ton of fun playing and thats all that matters to me. also, lets be fr for a sec, how many of those reviews do u think is legitimate? 
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Why would you ever base your enjoyment of a game by other people’s opinion. Metacritic is absolute garbage in terms of user reviews. They almost always are lower than the critics, which seems to be the total opposite for TVs and Film. People just loooove to hate on games nowadays. And in the case of OW2, it was almost guaranteed it would get review bombed by people who preferred OW1. People who actually enjoy the game don’t need to hurry to leave a review cause they’re too busy playing and having fun.
The only thing that I’ll agree with the doomers on is the monetization. It’s absolutely pathetic. It’s about the most anti-consumer F2P model I’ve seen from games of this type.
Because i dont care? User reviews on metacritic dont mean anything anymore.
About 5% of them if i had to guess.
Because, why would i add to the bias of the review. When i could just ignore them and enjoy the game as i have been doing. 
Reminder.
Metacritic gave cyberpunk an 86 rating on release. User score 7.0
The user reviews I was just looking at them
Most of the positive user reviews are 10s then the negative ones are all 0 or 1 lol
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Haha goteem.
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Most reviewers:
“Im mad that people are leaving my favorite game to play OW2 so im gonna review bomb.”
“I dont like OW so I’m gonna review bomb it because i have nothing better to do.”
“Im mad that a game i think should be unpopular has re-exploded onto the scene.”
“Im salty that I’m wrong about OW being bad.”
Etc etc etc etc.
go on im listening.
wait are we in 2022 or 1996?
Xbox rating is 1.5 stars out 5 currently lmfao
You think so but many analysts consider this to be the opposite. There has been plenty of proof of review bombing for the sake of it rather than actually providing a real review.
Again, reviews for many forms of media today are highly suspect and should not be directly used as evidence of popular true opinion of people that have actually consumed the media. Especially when the reviews are immediately negative within the first literal minutes of a review up.
Well for instantly submitted reviews as soon as something is up, true.
For OW2 though it’s been 3 days now with an insane amount of issues, after killing a game forcefully which worked perfectly fine prior to this. Why didn’t they simply release OW2 as a new title and leave OW1 so incase of any issues people could still enjoy it? Well… the answer is obvious. Corporate greed. And people are fed up with it, thus review bombs.
I agree partially with you that reviews are not dependable source of info, although I will say that review bombs heavily depend on a case-to-case scenario and cannot be all dismissed just like that. It heavily varies from case-to-case.
I’ve seen many review bombs that made no sense whatsoever and held no validation, and I’ve also seen many that did. So to reject all review bombs as invalid just because it’s a review bomb, to me it is not really a good thing.
Each review bomb should be observed individually to examine whether it holds true or not. In case of OW2, I personally do not think it deserves any positive reception, for plenty of reasons.
If you were there when OW1 got announced, simply compare the insane amount of excitement it received and kept up to the very moment it released and years after. OW2 did not even remotely receive an ounce of that hype, in fact the majority of people were scratching their heads and asking themselves why OW2.
This is exactly the same situation as when they announced Diablo Immortal. No applause, no nothing. Had Blizzard simply left OW1 alone and not kill it, people would not be so harsh with OW2.
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That is probably due to the fact that it IS the same game 
Also probably why people would be downvoting, so many years of teasing, talks of solo / coop store missions, configurable heroes and whatnot… Then they deliver the exact same game with a few more heroes and a few more maps… thats it.
This should have been a big content update.
I’m literally getting in with 1,000 queue at the most. How are people still having issues that aren’t on console.
you can’t really count this particular vote though.
Yep. usually, the game is terrible which results in low scores.
But this time, when you go through reviews, most of them are talking about server issues when giving low scores. That’s not valid enough.
because we’re too busy enjoying the game and not complaining over the game on forums
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It was. It was free. Your criticisms hold 0 weight.
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