Aaron Keller pledged to improve the game for “players who are playing now.”

  • conciselyverbose
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    631 year ago

    If real people hate your game because of the changes you made from the last one (that you took away from them), that’s not a review bomb.

    It’s just a review.

    • Primarily0617
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      -71 year ago

      You’re entirely disconnected to reality if you think Overwatch 2 deserves to be the worst-reviewed game on Steam.

      • TwilightVulpine
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        141 year ago

        On Steam being reviewed poorly is not a matter of rating from 1 to 10, but how many people would recommend it or not. It’s completely valid that the vast majority of people would not recommend this game even if it’s not a 0/10.

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          yes obviously, and none of that changes anything about the fact that very clearly OW2 isn’t bad enough to deserve the title of worst rated game on steam

          • TwilightVulpine
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            111 year ago

            You tried to argue with someone else over this, but the fact that more people played it, being F2P, means that more people can agree that they wouldn’t recommend it. Given how Steam ratings work, that makes it the worst rated. There’s no arguing how it is. You seem to take an issue with it as if it meant Gabe Newell personally stamped it with a 0/10, which is not how it works.

            In Steam, being 4/10 for thousands of people is worse than being 0/10 for a couple people.

      • conciselyverbose
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        141 year ago

        Based on what?

        The negatives are extremely bad, and people are legitimately reviewing the game negatively because they legitimately think it’s a pile of shit.

        It is literally unconditionally impossible for it to be a review bomb if the reviews are motivated by the core design decisions of the game.

        • Primarily0617
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          01 year ago

          Today’s concurrent player peak is ~47k.

          Why would 47k people choose to play the game when it’s the worst game on Steam? Literally worse than a game like Bad Rats: the Rats’ Revenge that fundamentally doesn’t function correctly. For reference, its peak today was about 20 players.

          Before you reply with something like “marketing”, you seriously think that if Bad Rats launched today, and with the same marketing budget as OW2, that it would achieve anywhere close to 47k players peak 10 months after its release?

          Like I said: you’re disconnected from reality if you think OW2 is the worst game on Steam.

          • conciselyverbose
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            121 year ago

            Did bad rats deliberately steal a game people liked to replace it with an addiction machine?

            • Primarily0617
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              -41 year ago

              deliberately steal a game people liked to replace it with an addiction machine

              what the actual fuck are you talking about

              • conciselyverbose
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                131 year ago

                The reason Overwatch 2 is the worst reviewed game Steam has ever had?

                A bad game does a lot less harm than a game that seems good on the surface then tries to rob you blind.

                • Primarily0617
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                  by “tries to rob you blind” you mean a game with entirely optional additional purchases?

                  wow you’re right they really get you with that “you can pay if you want” model

                  it’s practically criminal definitely worthy of being the worst ranked game on steam

                  • Erian
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                    21 year ago

                    Optional? They added the new heroes to the battle pass…. Doesn’t seem that optional, unless you want to spend hours of farming the free tier… for me, that definitely deserves a negative rating.

              • 520
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                61 year ago

                The original Overwatch, which had none of this shit and was a one-off payment, was killed off in favour of OW2

                • Primarily0617
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                  leaving a negative review because of that would by definition be review bombing, because at that point you’re not reviewing the game, but external context that surrounds it

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                    Not really. Reviewing the game as OW with enshittification is a perfectly reasonable review of OW2 in and of itself.

                    Especially if the publishers made the one-off purchase version unusable just to push people onto the enshittified one.

          • @kmkz_ninja
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            101 year ago

            You wouldn’t ever know about the worst game on Steam because no one would have bought it. Your logic is off a bit.

            • Primarily0617
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              31 year ago

              “The reason it’s so badly reviewed is that it’s too popular” is certainly a take.

              • @kmkz_ninja
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                61 year ago

                Go outside and take a picture of the bug that has the best camouflage in your yard for me, would you?

          • TwilightVulpine
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            71 year ago

            You are really trying to downplay the power of marketing, but you seem to realize that gets people playing. Not only that but live service design is very effective at keeping people playing even when they are not having any fun whatsoever. Because they gotta grind the battle pass and such. Extrinsic rewards and habit-forming conditioning making up for a lack of intrinsic enjoyment.

            Still, I would agree with you that it’s not the worst game on Steam, but like I mentioned in the other comment, that’s not what steam ratings mean. It means that the vast majority people would not recommend it, and that seems pretty reasonable.

            • Primarily0617
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              bf2042 had a playercount in the high 1000s 2 months after its launch

              ow2 released 10 months ago

              are you saying bf2042 didn’t have marketing?

              which is more likely:

              • 50k people have been brainwashed into playing the game every day, and similar numbers into watching it on twitch
              • there is review bombing
              • TwilightVulpine
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                51 year ago

                Doesn’t look like you even read my full comment so I’m gonna wait till you do.

                • Primarily0617
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                  01 year ago

                  i mean i ignored the second part because it was irrelevant

                  “You’re entirely disconnected to reality if you think Overwatch 2 deserves to be the worst-reviewed game on Steam.” doesn’t say “deserves to be the worst game”, so if we’re playing the reading game maybe you should take the first turn

                  • TwilightVulpine
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                    51 year ago

                    Oh, so you have no response to it so you are gonna pretend it doesn’t matter. I see.

                    I could say I’d do the same but nothing you are saying now even addresses what I already responded to you, so I’ll just call it a job done.

      • @NewNewAccount
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        101 year ago

        What’s the criteria for being deserving of the worst game on Steam?

        It’s not a good game. Regardless of how good it is, it’s MUCH less than what was promised and people are voicing their opinion about its monetization model.

        • Primarily0617
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          It’s not a good game

          which is why it’s hitting a 47k player peak 10 months after launch for only users that have linked their account

          voicing their opinion about its monetization model

          you mean the one where actually paying money for it is entirely optional? damn that’s horrible what monsters