{"id":286212,"date":"2024-07-29T15:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=336855"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:07:06","slug":"for-once-this-review-bombing-is-more-than-justified-more-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/for-once-this-review-bombing-is-more-than-justified-more-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"For once, this review-bombing is more than justified\u2014more or less"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There was a time when review bombing (that is, giving mass negative ratings to a game as a sign of discontent) in video games was used to justify racist or sexist attitudes. The protagonist is a woman and I am not a woman, therefore I have to boycott the release for reasons I have made up in my head. However, recently it tends to be synonymous with very poorly made technical decisions<\/strong>. At least since Helldivers 2 paved the way and achieved its objectives, complaining with negative ratings has become a very common practice in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bomb goes off!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is the case now of Earth Defense Force 6, which now has barely a 5 rating on Steam. The reason is not that the game is bad, but that to play it online, you need to create an Epic Games account<\/strong>, something that no player knew until the day of its release. The situation has been so catastrophic that the developers are already working on removing it. But of course, the damage has already been done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not (completely) a punishment towards Sandlot, the studio, of course, but towards Epic… but it has many nuances that bosses probably can’t see. \u00a0in the end,\u00a0review bombing has very immediate positive consequences for users<\/strong>\u00a0but very negative long-term consequences for studios since many players, already satisfied, forget to change their review, and it remains negative (Helldivers 2 is still trying to recover from the blow, for example).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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