• JackbyDev
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    767 days ago

    To me “review bomb” implies giving a rating based on external or irrelevant factors. Giving a game a bad review because it doesn’t run correctly on your computer is perfectly valid and helpful to other users.

      • JackbyDev
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        12 days ago

        Star Wars Outlaws in particular received a temporary fix for crashing issues back in November. While Microsoft and Ubisoft have been working on a fix, issues with games like Assassin’s Creed Origins still remain.

        If a fix exists for other games and not this one and you’ve been negatively affected, that’s a 100% acceptable reason to give a “Not Recommend” review.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 days ago

      It ran fine since 2017 and got blindsided by MS. Anyone blaming Ubisoft is biased af, or has information not included in this article.

      • @[email protected]
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        116 days ago

        Yeah, the billion dollar game developer doesn’t have the resources to test preview editions of the only PC OS their game is designed for. They’re just a small startup of ~20k employees. How are they supposed to allocated anyone to patching a game from their most popular franchise?

        You’re right, it’s the consumers fault for being biased.

        • @Uruanna
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          35 days ago

          Brb gonna test those old 1995 games and if they don’t run on Windows 11 I’ll review bomb Eidos.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 days ago

          The game is an eight years old single player game. I doubt they had many people working on it anymore.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 day ago

            So, people should leave positive reviews for games that no longer work?

            Like I get what your saying. It’s not Ubisoft’s fault.

            But if they’re not going to fix their old game, than it should be reviewed negatively so people don’t spend money on a game that no longer works.

            If they don’t want that, than delist it.

            • @[email protected]
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              112 hours ago

              I didn’t want to discredit the reviews, just give more context to the situation. I don’t think that there is any AAA dev that has 8 year old games at such a high priority level that they would fix any “posthumous” issues immediately.

              • @[email protected]
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                12 hours ago

                Sure

                But when people are replying to

                https://lemm.ee/comment/17210238

                Saying that anyone not calling out Microsoft is biased, is a bad take. And I’m not sure what your point of more context is needed?

                A broken game gets negative reviews. I’m not sure what’s biased about this.

        • @[email protected]
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          -25 days ago

          They do have the resources, they also have the expectation they won’t need to waste them on dumb shit MS breaks.

          Ubisoft IS the consumer of MS products. But I guess your sympathies for consumers is only skin deep.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 day ago

            Companies aren’t people. So yes, my limit is “skin deep”.

            (Not the person you replied to).

              • @[email protected]
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                120 hours ago

                That yes, it doesn’t bother me that Ubisoft is a consumer of Microsoft.

                If Ubisoft doesn’t update their product, they should be reviews negatively. If they don’t like it they should de list it so people don’t pay money for a broken product.

  • @njm1314
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    447 days ago

    It ain’t review bombing if the game’s not working properly. That’s just called an accurate review. Of course the gaming journalism industry has to make sure all of its headlines are anti-consumers possible though.

    • @[email protected]
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      -217 days ago

      The problem is that you have some weird conception of what “review bombing” means. You seem to be under the misconception that it has something to do with somehow illegitimate reviews.

      All that it means is massive amounts of negative reviews in a short time. It’s pretty self-explanatory, really.

      • @[email protected]
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        247 days ago

        That’s the sterilized, literal definition, but it’s very common for “review bombing” to be framed as immature gamers throwing a temper tantrum. It’s denotation vs. connotation.

        • @[email protected]
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          -166 days ago

          It’s never framed that way. I know because people complain about it literally every time it’s used in this context.

          • @njm1314
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            66 days ago

            It’s always framed that way.

            • @[email protected]
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              -46 days ago

              Then why do people complain about this every single time the phrase is used? Can you provide an example of it being used in that way?

              • @njm1314
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                46 days ago

                I’m not understanding what you’re confused about here. The suggestion here isn’t that they’re using the phrase wrong out of some kind of bumbling incompetence. I’m very clearly suggesting they’re using the phrase wrong in an Insidious effort to denigrate consumers. I’ve not hidden that at all. They are intentionally using it to make criticism of game companies sound irrational. That is the goal. That is the point.

                • @[email protected]
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                  -46 days ago

                  I’m not understanding what you’re confused about here. What does any of that have to do with my comment? And why would they do that?

  • @[email protected]
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    -47 days ago

    Ubisoft = Bad, Steam = Good.
    Upvote to the left.

    Seriously gamers, don’t buy Ubisoft’s games and stop crying.

    • @[email protected]
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      287 days ago

      I don’t understand. These reviews seem accurate to people who have yet to buy the game, so the score properly reflecting the current state of the game warning potential buyers to not buy it.

      Reviews would be useless if they didn’t change and people buying the game because reviews reflecting game is fine.

      • @[email protected]
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        76 days ago

        This is the exact reason why Steam had a separate “recent reviews” statistic. A well-reviewed game with negative recent reviews is a good indicator that something broke (three exact reason should be spelled out in the reviews).

        The only issue is that such reviews are not “self-cleaning” once the issue gets fixed, and not every negative reviewer will remove or correct their review manually.

      • @[email protected]
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        -177 days ago

        It would be true if gamers wouldn’t be OBSESSED with bashing Ubisoft for any fucking reason they can find.

        A Ubisoft guy says something about people not owning their games, it gets taken out of context and people are basically sending death threat to their office. Steam publish an update to make it clear you never owned your games, people jerk them harder.

        In the end, both are filthy capitalist business, but one has 12k employees and get shit on all the time because black samurai in a fantasy world or women not fuckable enough, the other has around 80 employees, take 30% on every games they did nothing for, and every gamers kisses their asses. This is just another reason for low life gamers to hate on ubisoft, the fact that windows broke compatibility with the game makes it even more stupid. How the fuck could they have prevent this from happening exactly? They will publish a patch within 24 hours but the bad reviews will stick.