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

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    11 months 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.

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      11 months 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.

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          11 months ago

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

          what the actual fuck are you talking about

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            11 months 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.

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              11 months ago

              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

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            11 months ago

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

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              11 months ago

              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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                11 months ago

                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.

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                  10 months ago

                  “i liked overwatch 1” is not a valid review of the game overwatch 2, and people leaving reviews to that effect en-masse is pretty textbook review bombing

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                    10 months ago

                    Yes it is. It’s perfectly valid.

                    It says that the changes in Overwatch 2 are unpopular with the reviewer.

                    If the changes were positive or even unnoteworthy, that review wouldn’t be there