Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I truly detest the “review bombing” culture, but in the same breath - Blizzard has really screwed up on OW2.
OW was honestly one of my most played games of all time - and I loved it. The loot boxes were annoying, but hey…if I wanted to, or chose to - I could buy more and got a decent chance of getting what I wanted. The issue was that I had nearly everything by the end, and rarely bought loot boxes. The content wasn’t there to keep people buying cosmetics.
The new shop/token/battle pass stuff is really really toxic to gaming. I will admit that I have bought a few battle passes. When the content is there, I will pay. I would totally buy skins if they were in the vein of $5-7usd, and were for a hero I liked… but there is no way in the world that they are getting me to pay 20-25 on a skin. Its honestly so disgusting.
I really was unaffected by the single player stuff, because I only enjoy multiplayer games - but the way it was done showed disregard for the loyal players so it makes me lose trust in the company. I am honestly just sad about what happened to the OW universe.
I disagree on review bombing. It’s the public’s way of ensuring publishers ‘find out’ when they fuck around.
Payday 2’s devs added pay 2 win loot boxes. They got review bombed. They changed their course.
If the bombing isn’t valid you can read the reviews. If what they described doesn’t concern you as a consumer you can likely assume that it won’t color your experience with the game.
Not the best example. Payday 2 is my most played game of all time. They did get review bombed when they added stat improvements on unlockables, and that was reversed, but they also got review bombed when they started microtransactions after very clearly saying they would never do so (drills/safes). That was never reversed, and only got worse with time. The fact that it is PvE co-op only, makes “pay 2 win” way less important, and I could still “win” very easily without any of those minor stat increases. The original vision was that players just pay for new heists, and anyone could play any heist - just not host unless they owned the content.
gmtom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is it really review bombing though? Or is it just people reviewing a game poorly because it’s bad? Like seriously this is the whole point of reviews.