Title sounds so sleazy and scummy and I want to read the article but I don't want to give clicks to slimeball who wrote this
this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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Does looking at it on archive give the website a view?
If it's on steam it isn't even really review bombing. Cause for steam reviews you have to own the game. So this is people who own the game giving a warning to potentially new people who might get the game about what's going on and a recommendation to not buy it. Usually review bombing is people who have never even played the game or consumed the media reviewing it bad to bomb it for whatever reason. So this definitely isn't that and they're just trying to shift the definition of review bombing to any kind of mass negative reviews for whatever reason.
The reason is to get paid by corps to wipe the bad reviews.
Yep cause the journalists make money through ads and game developers are usually the ones buying the ad space so they gotta do what the companies want or they might lose their advertising as punishment.
They are now trying to standardize reference to "review bombing" to try to frame it some nefarious and coordinated "campaign" instead of what it is... A bunch of actual people pissed off at your recent bullshit and responding in real time to express that disappointment and frustration.
Direct consequences of your actions.
Maybe they could join together and write an opensource Kerbal Space Program 2?
that overpriced, buggy, and incomplete mess wasn't already getting bad reviews?
Funny enough some of the most recent reviews have been somewhat positive because of the amount of progress that they have made on the development of the game. If the game were allowed to be developed to full completion, it might be a well received game (Despite the price). Instead they’ve canned it, which is just a disgusting show of business over customers as well as being disappointing for a KSP fan.
It was, now Take two can claim its just review bombing and the game is fine.