ObiWanGurobi

@ObiWanGurobi@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll happily pay these 30% if it means I get quality services for them:

  • high speed download servers
  • reliable cloud saves
  • automatic, non intrusive updates
  • discussion forums
  • easy mod management
  • friend networking, multiplayer services
  • responsive and uncomplicated support

  People always act like those are to be taken as granted, but if you have ever worked in dev/devops, you would know that there’s a lot of work maintaining each one of them.

  Also, you can use these services for as long as you want, despite paying for them with a single purchase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll never not want to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My two cockatiels Oreo and Kiri preening each other

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield, is it getting review bombed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not even making it a discussion. You mentioned metacritic in your (now edited) comment and I explained why metacritic’s system actively encourages review bombing. So it’s no wonder you’ll see a decent amount of review bombing there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield, is it getting review bombed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Check the usernames, that wasn’t me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield, is it getting review bombed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because my initial comment was about metacritic and my argument is that metacritic is a bad indicator of review bombing because it literally encourages it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield, is it getting review bombed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason it’s lower on metacritic is mainly due to the fact that the critics rating is too high, imo. This leads to disappointed players leaving extra bad scores (i.e. 0/10) to offset the score. In a way that’s review bombing, but only as a reaction to the inflated critics’ reviews (which I often suspect to be bought or bribed).

  Usually the Steam reviews are a lot more reliable. As I said, metacritic’s system is shit and encourages review manipulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield, is it getting review bombed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Metacritic’s user rating system is just shit. You see the game rated higher than deserved and you can either

  • give it an honest rating resulting in the total score dropping by 0.01
  • give it a zero rating and have the score drop by 0.1

  Of course most people chose to rate it in a way that has more impact on the total score, so it’s no wonder we see 0/10 and 10/10 more than anything else.

  This phenomenon will be even more exaggerated if critics ratings are undeservedly high, as is the case with Starfield.