he is very special
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As someone who clicks on a lot of steam pages daily, if a game is currently getting review bombed it is basically impossible to look at said reviews without a big half-of-the-screen big note mentioning the fact. If it greatly affects the actual search results (which are already⊠letâs say odd on Steam) that is probably bad, but Steam does point it out in a rather prominent manner.
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Itâs kinda like fixing a pothole by putting a sign up saying âthere may be a pothole aheadâ
Publishers enter into a contractual relationship with the developer. Depending on that contract, they control the rights to distribute that game. DEVELOPERS ARE FULL AWARE OF THIS UPON ENTERING THAT CONTRACT, and if they are not, it is their own fault. If the publisher is the one who controls the right to pull the game from Steam for any reason, itâs the developerâs problem that he did not think about it ahead. Steam does not need to act as some moral vanguard.
As for that painful experience, you will get that no matter what you do if you choose to publicly release your game. That particular review bombing, towards which Steam has even created good tools to make it apparent that it has been the case, is actually VERY USEFUL for knowing if a certain multiplayer game has been abandoned by the devs with empty servers or if the publisher has incredibly shitty monetization practices. even then, why would the developers cry about getting review bombed by the system they seem to criticize / take jabs at anyway? if you actually look at the reviews on Steam page, there is LOT OF SUPPORT from people whose voice the devs should care about anyway.
as for this hysteria in general, notwithstanding that I donât agree with the reason of review bombing the game, I am more than certain that the developers WERE VERY cognizant of what including that jab at Xi Jinping would result in.
Iâm not gonna engage with the rest of your post right now because Iâve already died on my own review-bombing hill on this forum elsewhere but
This is a very weird assumption to make considering itâs an easily-missed detail on a single innocuous wall-texture poster that has nothing to do with anything else in the game and probably was, as they claim, just placeholder art that slipped past oversight and somehow made it into the final build. I doubt more than two people at the studio were ever aware of this, and I doubt theyâd just throw away the awesomeness of their artwork and story for the sake of a thematically-unrelated internet meme that 99.9% of players wouldnât notice anyway.
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So whatâs the problem of removing it if itâs simply placeholder art? Did they do it?
Yes they did, and immediately.
âDuring the early development period, one of Red Candleâs member placed the sensitive words into an art material,â the developer said. âWhen the art material was made, each teammate was busy working on oneâs own tasks while chasing the deadline. None of the other colleagues were aware of this. It was until we received a private report made by a player on 21st February that we realised what was exactly written on that art material. Upon learning of this, we immediately replaced the art material within an hour.â
This is stuff you should, like, know about before writing posts. Like, read the news youâre discussing.
I wish people cared more about the game than they did about this dumb nonsense.
Yes, I read the news already before, which stated that they removed the game for technical reasons alone, not because big bad publisher told them to pull it, which would mystify the Valve at being fault here standpoint even more.
If you are willing to interpret that statement simply as damage control, then there is nothing to suggest that they are not using the good old trick of dumping the problem into some ârogue devâ inside the team either.
The general attitude of this forum is a visceral feeling that review-bombing is distasteful and leads to circumstances unfair to the artwork and the artists, regardless of economic realities. In this case, they couldnât be more right, and theyâre more right than they know they are because most of them havenât played the game yet.
Iâve seen that attempting to argue this in further detail will be mutually unenlightening and full of faith-based speculation/interpretation since we really donât have anything to go on besides what weâre told.
please just play devotion; it doesnât change anything about this subject but itâs so much better than this
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i think there are nuances when it comes to review bombing (as in, revealing the nature of such activity to others is sufficient, otherwise might as well nuke the whole user review part), but I agree that there is nothing to gain from this discussion as it pertains specifically to Devotion, and as I mentioned before, I look forward to playing Devotion when I get around to Detention as well, as the latter has been on my wishlist for a while.
Pokemon U.K.
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Fuck me sideways why am I hype itâs just a new coat of paint
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Grass starter is the best as always
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Echo is such a perfect little thing, only let down by the game hook but it is so meaningfully integrated I couldnât dislike not liking to play it
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I was intrigued by the Hitman connection, but cemented an equal âI gotta play this/I can never play thisâ feeling when I saw that clip of someone choking out one of the clones, taking an elevator, and immediately getting choked out by another clone.
The whole âthey learn everything you do within a time frameâ mechanic is such a terrifying thing.
this is my third, most subdued, attempt at shillposting the fact that CoD4 Remastered and The Witness are the two free games with a PS+ subscription for March (but no PS3/Vita games and therefore 4 less offerings than usual) and this makes me very happy for people who are going to play these games
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Canât wait to feel too stupid for The Witness and quit playing it after 45 minutes
You can (and should) leave any puzzle you feel you canât solve yet and go elsewhere. Thereâs 11 distinct areas on the island that are open to you right out of the starting gate.
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