Steam reviews are forcing AAA devs to stick to safe, boring games instead of trying to innovate because of the fear of getting review bombed
>>738777198The complete annihiliation of the modern video game industry is beneficial to everyone except corpos and DEI-slop makers.
whining about review bombing is just devs coping about their games being shiteveryone knows that review bombing is a thing and will simply scroll down to check what the reviews actually dosteam even added a break down by language so you can easily check if it's just one region having a melty again
>>738777198You got things backwards mate, doing safe boring games is why games get reviewbombed.Have you tried making a good innovative game instead?
>>738777305Nobody is review bombing the 26th AC game, or openworldslop#41571
>>738777198Games these days are waaaaaay more unique and diverse. I don't know what la-la land you're living in OP. Probably should get back on your meds.
>>738777446They flopped hard as fuck, what are you talking about?Getting reviewbombed is better than nobody actually buying your game to then review it, because at least you got their money.
>big budget games get shit on in real timethis is a good thing you fucking boot licker
>>738777198>waahh why don't you bootlick the corpo you chudWere in a state of constant shittification because you morons lack fucking standards
>>738777198Implying there was an interesting, unconventional game that they stopped making because of a review bomb.Nobody fuckinng review bombs a game just because the game wasn't for everyone, it's caused by something more emotional.AAA games only cares about sales too, not reviews.
Oh yeah nothing says "safe" and "boring" like making multiple games starring ugly black women for audiences of men.
>>738777198Nobody is forced to bow to retarded poors, raging triggered chinese, or other review bombing apes. Many popular games don't even launch on Steam. Stupid post.
>>738777198Trying to reinvent the wheel instead of doing what people already like is a sign of clueless game dev, yes.
I like how Steam currently handles review bombs. Just mark the period for unusually high activity>check reviews for that period>it's some inane political shitDon't care. Don't buy anyway because I don't buy games.
>>738777198Mixtape was pretty innovative and got murdered for it.
>>738777681>Anyone who disagrees with me over anything is a bootlickerYou're an NPC lol
>>738777975Disagreeing with pro-customer features like reviews, is bootlicking, yes.
>NOOOOOOO ONLY PUBLISHER APPROVED CRITICS MAY REVIEW GAMES!!! EVER!!!Nah faggot
>>738777198Yeah I'm sure Steam reviews are the metric they use and not game journo review + sales + total revenue - cost of production. AAA games especially are afraid of getting review bombed on Steam©. It's totally not libtard literal who indie devs who make a bad game and are upset that a few chuddies also didn't like it and want to make it entirely political to self-soothe as they go broke.
>>738777198Just block by country.
>>738777198if you are still buying AAA games then you shouldn't have any opinion on gaming at all
No one bombs games for trying to 'innovate', they get bombed for doing cancerous anti-consumer bullshit or engaging in wokery
>>738777897I think it got murdered for being a shitty 3-hour movie. Plenty of VN's and walking sims on Steam but they tend to have stories worth experiencing and if they don't they get shit on just like Mixtape.
>players being able to describe in detail the issues a game has before someone buys it le killed gamingSo true. Our only source of info should be paid reviews and paid ecelebs.
If gaming got killed because people were allowed to voice their opinion or troll, it deserved to be killed. Retard.
>>738777198you have zero evidence for your claim
>>738777198>say thing bad irl>people avoid bad thing>say thing bad online>NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU'RE KILLING THE INDUSTRYYYYY IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!
>>738777446Well yeah you need to buy the game to review it on steam.
>>738777198>t. retarded dev or something
>>738777446>>738777305Pragmata is overwhelmingly positivemeanwhile AC shadows sat on mixed for quite a while
>>738777198Slay The Spire 2 isn't being reviewbombed because some eceleb grifter told his jeet audience to send out negative reviews, a large majority of the negative reviews come from Chinkoids who are flabbergasted this game doesn't have P2W gambling shit tailor made for their demo. Mind you, these are people with hundreds of hours on average.
>>738777198I can't wait for them all to go bankrupt
>>738777446Marathon is also sitting at 85% positive reviews on steam.
>>738778651and they are all organic and not from the PR firm they paid to astroturf
>>738777198So-called "journalists" aren't doing their job, someone has to do it for them.Have you considered making a game that is just fucking good?Also, the best games are always rated 8/10
>>738777198It's the other way around, faggot.
>>738777198
>>738777198literally all you need to do to garner overwhelmingly positive reception on steam is for the game to run well and not crashthe game could be complete shit otherwise
I'll support anything that will put gaming journalists out of a job
>>738777198>industry keeps giving people fugly women, censored crap, cultural marxism and multiculturalism, and other poisons to the brain>nugames are unoptimized pieces of shit that require an RTX 9090 to reach 20 fps at 320x240 thanks to shoehorned gimmicks like memetracing and outsourcing to turd worlders>$70 price tags to boot + microtransactions + battlepasses + tip>live-service games, denuvo, kernel-level anti-cheat and other anti-consumer malware that only punishes paying customers>instead of cleaning up their act, they double down and blame the players for having standards and not supporting garbagethe whole industry deserves to burn down
>>738777198lol what a shit thread with a gay retard OP
>>738777604Movie Fox will never fuck you.
>>738777198>please think about the huge corporations feelings!!!!!no:)
>>738777198Meanwhile back in reality the bear sex game got GOTY.
Dont hire white man hating feminists to "consult" on your game and you should be okay.
>>738780014Why? White people are a minority in the gaming market, they literally don't matter
>>738777198>What games are really popular with the main group of people who buy video games?>Lets see, all of the best selling video games are cool heroic dudes, killing monsters or terrorists, so we could make "Cool Heroic Dude in Fantasy Land" or Sci-Fi Land>How about Ugly tranny or ugly sheboon and then make all the NPCs gay or womenIt's really not fucking hard. Just stop being gay. Really. That's all you need to do.
>Steam killed gamingftfyNintendo is the only bastion of true gaming that hasn't been ruined.
>>738777198Bad optimization, a bad localization, censorship, post-launch balance changes or "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people" is what can get your game review bombed. People use the review system to vent their frustrations over the current state of a game.
>>738777198Why exactly would being safe and boning mean good steam reviews?
>>738777198>because of the fear of getting review bombedthat's mostly the fault of the chinese though
>>738777198dogshit games are consistently rated very positive as long as they have some production value. if anything steam reviews is making shit games a favor
>>738777198>Vote with your wallet!>REEEEE, not like this!!!!
>>738777198just ban anyone from making reviews in any chinese language
>>738777198If I pay for a full priced AAA game and it's shit then I can convince 100 people not to buy it, that's democracy.
>>738777242FPBP. Sex with Roll.
Does Steam even do any algorithm pushing of a game with high ratings? I thought they just use sales. On other platforms you need the rating to get visibility.
>>738780680>chud buys the game (with his mom's credit card)>leaves bad review>refunds the game>this is okay somehow>>738780710No, it's called populism
These Online campaigns got to be bullshit especially for AAA games Because games Like BG3, KCD2, LOF and HW got plenty of hate online yetall those games are pretty successful
>>738777198Notice how every way consumers can fight back against AAA is some how a problem. But AAA owning the games journos is just fine?
>>738780771Pretty sure refunded (and products received for free) don't count in the overall review score.
The biggest issue is devs being forced to kowtow to millions of irrate chinks. You have shitty bad games like stellar blade rate very positively because it makes chinkoid peepees happy.
>>738777198>Complains about review bombing on the one site where it isn't possible >>738780490Op is an idiot but he's right about that part even if for the wrong reason. The problem with steam reviews is that they're not reviews or at least the ranking doesn't represent the reviews. You can only be 100% negative or positive. That means that making a safe game with a broad appeal that's a 7/10 for everyone is preferable to making a game that some will love and others might hate. A 7/10 game is something you'd rather vote positive than negative which can lead to the situation where an inoffensive safe game can have above 90% positive rating because it's just good enough to not dislike.The real problem aren't the reviews but the way steam treats them as a rating. In the end you're better off making a game that nobody dislikes than a game some love.
>>738780160that's why all those games targeting blacks, pajeets and other mystery meat are doing so well
>>738780771>corporate tearsyou love to see it
>>738777198it hits indie games harder imo, speaking from bias.didn't want to add casualizing elements like instant fast travel to my game because i had spent time adding a bunch of other travel options but i'd seen people seething about the lack of such an option under another game and even just a couple of negative reviews near launch can sink you permanently, so i "had" to.
>>738781047That's right in a way, but as it stands, it has a secondary function to counterbalance the bullshit of metacritic.If they stopped including metacritic scores, then yeah, you could take a second look at the review system and sort it out properly. But as it stands, with metacritic ratings only reflecting games journo scores, the strict yay or nay weight is about the only way you can offset when the score is complete bullshit(ie when the metacritic is high, but the people who've tried the game are all saying it's fucking shit and vice-versa.)
>>738780771So what's the alternative? Listening to professional transexals that Jews paid to deepthroat a AAAslop game or straight up botted reviews with no proof of purchase required?
>>738781371easy, only allow reviews from people who have finished the game or in the case of live service games, at least experienced most of the core features of the game.
>>738777198there are a bunch of retards who will neg review any game if it doesn't have a whole host of [SUBJECTIVE QOL FEATURE] so the only way to get the highest possible % of steam updoots is to include all the """QOL""" (defined as literally anything any person might want btw).this results in inoffensive games with soft failstates that baby the player as much as possible.
>>738777198AAA game companies killed AAA games.
>>738777242Why did they even post after this.
>>738781418>Sell game as mech combat>Several hours in it turns into a piss-drinking simulator>Only people who love drinking piss finish the game>OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE on steam
>>738777198Just make good games?
>>738781278Yeah, steam reviews are still the ones I trust the most. I just have to remind myself that they're not scores and that an overwhelmingly positive game isn't automatically a 10/10. They're more of a guideline than an accurate representation.
>>738781465>Reviews your sloppy lukewarm game as negative for being slopHeh, nothing personal.
>>738781651I mean that means the product achieved in catering to its audience, which is ultimately what matters. Even right now, this happens with plenty of steam games. Woke games like Marathon have very positive reviews because the only people who play it are people who actually like it.
>>738777242Fpbp>>738777198>AAA DevsYou mean ASSFAGGOTS
>>738777198Every new game gets reviewbombed these days.
>>738777198>>738781747Have you tried making games that aren't slop?
>>738781737>I mean that means the product achieved in catering to its audiencedod you somehow miss the faact that the hypotetical product also lied about what it was, or are you just pretending to be retarded?
>>738781737>Catering to the mech game audience with middle-aged-man-piss-drinking mechanicsCan mech fans confirm if this is what you want in your games?
>>738777198Factorio is 97% positive, and that's including the bad reviews over the developers anti russian bigotry and the scandal over the chud code
>>738782397>>738782269The point being the product has found its niche. Again, this reflects with many steam games where it has a dedicated following that otherwise gatekepts the average person from buying. There are plenty of games being marketed as being different but somehow attract a completely different audience. For example everyone here fucking hates Fallout 4 because it's a bad fallout game, but if you take a peek inside, most people who play it use it as some sort of Tarkov/Call of Duty larp with basebuilding.
>>738782848And again, look at how many games that /v/ hates but has positive ratings on steam. Ranging from BG3 to even nuGod of War. The thing is the vast majority of people don't really bother to leave reviews. A game getting many negative reviews on steam, provided it isn't politically motivated, means that game does something really really wrong to make someone angry enough to leave a negative review, which in the case of steam, is usually something technical like bad optimization. But otherwise, people who will leave positive reviews are the kind of people who are into this kind of game in the first place. Meanwhile everyone else who didn't like it will just refund, complain about it on the steam forums and move on.
>>738777198I disagree. AAA devs sticked to safe and corporative appealing to a wider audience because they thought it would be more profitable. If they were afraid of review bombing, we wouldn't have a decade full of remakes and DEI casting
>>738777198Nice bait
Busting out the oldie from BALD
>>738777446those games don't get review bombed because no one but gun and ball gamers buy them to begin with
>>738777275>everyone knows that review bombing is a thingBut it's not. You can't just say that and bring no evidence, it fundamentally implies dishonesty, 99% of the time there is no dishonesty, it's people's raw feeling about the actual game or its story. Just like 99% of "death threats" are completely made-up on the spot by faggots wanting to victimize themselves out of a bad spot.
>>738777198Just goes to show how little devs understand the game audience. People are generally review bombing because devs seem to think that everyone wants all of these woke dei slopfests. Someone needs to step up in the industry and tell them to stop fucking around with their political agenda and just make games people want.
>>738777198A genuinely great game will gain traction and move units regardless of the communal aggregate score. Especially with review bombs becoming more commonplace. Anyone who bases their purchase entirely on user reviews without any further research is a fucking dunce that's just chasing trends.
I think the refund window should go to 5 hours but you should only be able to leave a review after playing for 4.99 hours
>>738784109I wish that were true but it's not. 0% of players are pro-woke, but the vast majority is woke-indifferent, chuds don't have the power to make a game fail just because it's woke, it's just that woke games are almost always dogshit on most if not every other component too. If Starfield actually had decent lore, gameplay, exploration, quests, any aliens at all, it could survive having picrel as unnamed NPCs. But having unnamed NPCs like picrel is a strong indicator of the fact this game was literally made by a thousand jeets, so of course the game is dogshit.
>>738777198Why would I give a fuck about AAA companies that make millions every year? With every passing year, they make a shittier clone of titles that they've beaten to death. I rarely buy AAA titles anymore and have blacklisted companies that I will never purchase from again, namely EA and Activision/Blizzard.
>>738777198>AAA devsthey are trying to make big financial returns, nothing else.
>>738777198AAA devs simply got too big for this hyper-competitive marketplace. They can't keep up with trends, can't keep selling tens of millions of copies of their every game, can't turn expensive licenses into profit, can't have competitive prices, can't sustain themselves off microtransactions.Them having to resort to the lowest common denominator is a desperate attempt to hold on now that they don't have the leverage to shove a brand new product down your throat and make you their bitch.
>>738778551>Pragmata is overwhelmingly positiveBut it didn't sell. Capcom themselves said the game was a flop.
I write funny reviews only
>>738777198why is it that when the people actually are allowed to display their preferences big corpos and they're supporters seethe endlessly
>remove star ratings>remove dislikes>remove commentswhy are they like this
>>738777198>Steam reviews are forcing AAA devs to stick to safe, boring games instead of trying to innovate because of the fear of getting review bombedThe real problem with Steam Reviews isn't that you can review the games, its that you can't review the publishers directly as well. Publishers wouldn't have to worry about their games getting reviewbombed because of their shitty business practices if consumers could just directly reviewbomb the publisher for their shitty business practices. The consumers deserve to know if the company behind the game they're looking at has a history of being a dogshit company that pumps out asset flips, scams, low effort trash, or literal propaganda. The reviewbombs on games could stop today if Valve just let people review developers and publishers the same way they can review games.
>>738786052They have to sell there product or they won't make money. If you shit on them they'll fail don't mind every time that didn't happen or it happened with no one talking about the game at all.
>>738786408i like it
>>738777198You're not actually stupid enough to believe that, right?
>>738785860so you agree negative steam reviews dont mean anything
>>738786597Even negative reviews are better than complete apathy. A game that's overwhelmingly positive and sells only a million copies is equivalent to a branch that falls off a tree and no one was there to hear it. Capcom especially is known for franchises that sell 10M copies minimum, they're not going to be satisfied with mere Mega Man numbers anymore.
>>738777198Checked in with the boys in marketing and they did confirm it is Steam's fault, as negative reviews seem to decrease our overall sales. So I hired a consultant firm to help combat it and they told us we needed to diversify and appeal to a wider audience to help lessen the impact and tap into player bases more likely to be supportive and leave positive reviews.Please understand times are hard, and we need to be supportive of each other more than ever. I had to forgo buying my son his 5th vacation home and told him to be more careful about those costly little accidents in Thailand. This was sadly after I had to let go of hundreds of employees and cut costs to try to maintain our expected quota we promised the shareholders, and we don't want to betray their trust by failing to meet it.
>>738786408>its that you can't review the publishers directly as well.That's what curators are for.
>>738777198 (OP)This is retarded cope and you know it.Indie games aren't being safe and boring, and they're not the ones usually getting review bombed. The AAA games on steam that are getting review bombed, are the ones that are woke, boring, uninspired cashgrabs and buggy unoptimized badly balanced bug ridden shitSteam reviews if anything, is helping the video game industry make sure that the games that deserve to fail does exactly that. We don't want woke slop and shitty live service fomo shit with mtx out the ass and generic as fuck copy paste gameplay. That's why the indie game industry right now is thriving, while AAA is coming crashing down
>>738777198>Tranny devs are mad that they cant turn twitter likes into positive steam reviewsRUMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO>>738780771HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHKILL YOURSELF NIGGER! END YOUR FUCKING LIFE!
>>738787008>That's what curators are for.Thats not good enough, you have to seek out the curators intentionally and find one that has done a review on the developer you're looking to purchase from. I think you should be able to see their 5 star rating either directly beside or under the name of their company, both the dev studio and the publisher. You should be able to go to their pages and read reviews submitted by other users. Curators could still do their thing to, but some publishers are getting away with murder because the average person only remembers the controversial or shitty game and not the assholes that made it.
>>738782397it has a cute loli and it made the woke ledditors melt down so yes very yes
If review bombing worked paid DLC wouldnt be a thing
>>738778434frog
Freedom of expression does not mean freedom of consequences sweaty ;)
>>738777198I think they're sticking to safe bets because AAA games routinely cost 9 digits worth of cash and take half a decade to make and with such a bloated financial and time resource cost publishers no longer have the stomach to take more risks.It always comes down to money, little zoomie, try to remember that.
>>738777198So true oomfie, that's why I only trust professional gaming journalists.
>>738787398>Hey, this IoIi is just a midget 35 year old man in a costume!
>>738777198Complete chink domination. Bend the knee or be review bombed.
>>738790689noone can uncreampie her
>>738790053one does not fit in
>>738777198>Check score of game in Czech>Instantly bypass the the opinions of trannies, faggots, Jews and Redditors
>>738777242fpbponly shysters fear audience reviews.
>>738777198BULLSHIT, Faggy CEOs are putting monetization first, quality lastl they are forcing devs to do their will
Nah you're retarded.Steam review bombs are the result of a few things.-Major gameplay changes after initial purchases-Censoring after initial purchases-Denuvo
>>738792796Blame gta5 and fortniteThose games made so much fucking money, that every studio is digging for gold now
>>738792861>Buy game that's only appeal is softcore porn>Remove said softcore porn years after eveyone already paid money>Pretend the the softecore porn was never a selling pointThis should be illegal.
>>738777242fpbpIf anything steammies aren't harsh enough. any games that runs on toaster and doesn't have mtx will get positive.
>>738777198Shalom
>>738777242posts after this consists mostly of leftycel seething and corpo bootlickers (one and the same really)
>>738783167say what you like about the comic, they didn't beat around the bush regarding corrupt journalism
>>738785069"woke" games are games the dev team intentionally make as awful as possible on purpose, to make chuds stop buying their gamesgames then fail because only the chuds they chase away actually pay for games, their "modern audience" thinks games are an entitlement they should be given for free just because they're special
>>738780764Steam looks at what you play and then shills games that other people who play the same stuff play or stuff that has something in common with what you usually play. I don't know if it massively matters how positive they are (you do need some minimum level of engagement though).
>>738777897what did it innovate?
What video made YouTube shut down dislikes again? It's been so long I forgot if it was a game or a movie
>>738799481cod infinity war
We are giving bad games bad reviews. AAA devs are making bad games. If modern game developers all went out of business, this would only be a good thing, and the game industry could heal.I'm more interested to know what game development company you work for OP. Or which one is paying you to make this thread and place the blame on gamers instead of bad game developers/publishers. We will not consume.
>>738790703Chinks literally cannot make original content. They just copy what they see the West doing and add grind/pay to win/gacha mechanics.
>>738777242Fpbp yupp
>>738800071>We are giving bad games bad reviewsWho's "we"?You don't play games, tranny
>>738780984If I was a dev/publisher and my game was being review bombed by chinks i'd just ignore itNot even worth responding. I'd prefer it if they were just removed from scores entirely as an opt-out feature.
>>738800349>namecalling>who's "we?" everybody WANTS to play corporate slop!Take the L corporate stooge. Have some more titties.
>>738785860>capcom said the game was a flopCare to provide a source, Mr. Tranny?
>>738777198NOBODY wants DEI/woke “modern audience” slop. Thats why they fail. If they want to make money, sell a product that people who buy these products want. Simple as that, fag.
>>738800528>>738800349>tranny tranny tranny tranny trannyThis is comical because you have so much corporate cock in your mouth and ass.
>>738800706Do you know why they love to make DEI slop? Because those games are guaranteed to pay for themselves thanks to blackrock moneyIt's just as safe as the next COD game
>>738800476Who is the Artist this slpp is based of?
>>738801174Joyplus and Wamudraws.
>>738779387sauce
>>738777897Mixtape drew ire for the overglazing it received by game journos. A game without gameplay cannot be a 10/10 game. The consumers counterbalanced the journos. The truth is somewhere in the middle, it's a 7.5/10 game if you are the audience that plays walking sims.
>>738801281wtf why you post slop when this exist??
>>738801687I like more than one thing. I would prefer to have both that and the slop at the same time. If it wasn't for slop, obscure characters who don't get any/much art wouldn't be getting any new images.
>>738777198>AAA devsGood. They should fuck off so I don't have to see their garbage plastered on the front page all the time.
>>738777198>because of the fear of getting review bombedDEI would be dead if that was the case
>>738777198If that was true, Ubisoft would be doing great right now. They are the kings of safe, sterile, unoffensive, committee approved videogames, and yet they are the most hated studio currently. Really makes you think.
>forcing AAA devs to stick to safe boring gamers instead of trying to innovateWhen the fuck did they ever try to innovate?Triple-A devs have been doing nothing but safe boring games for the last 2 decades
>>738781274Working as intended. Sounds like the market pressured you into improving your shit game. Besides there are ways to float your vision while also giving the market what it wants. You could have fast travel unlock after the player interfaces with 1 or 2 of your gay little in universe travel methods. If the player actually liked your implementation they would choose to use it. I bet that shit sucked ass though. Designers that design around how gamers "should" interface with their game are retards. If you don't have the internal sense of how gameplay feels as a new player you aren't going to make it. It's like being a chef without being able to taste ingredients by conjuring the memory.
>>738778434This. If anything, it's the normalshit that usually gets reviewbombed.
>>738780764There's something like a 10-20 review threshold before you'll get recommended at all or so my publisher has told me
>>738777198Nah user reviews are a net positive. If a game is shitty, it deserves to be review bombed. Reviewers should be required to show they at least played the game thoughevermore'st.
>defending predatory live service slop.
>>738777198Oh what is the solution>Steam should allow devs to censor their review bombing and be less transparent if you want good tripple a gamesoh, okay. And if they don't do that>We'll keep making AAA games that fail and bankrupt usAhhhhh.... I see. That is a sacrafice I am willing to make.>But don't you want good games againYeah, you should make good games that don't get review bombed>But we make bad games cause we are getting review bombedThen make good games that people don't wanna review bomb.>.... FUCK YOU INCEL WE HATE YOUYeah eat shit corpo shill faggot. I hope you die
>>738777198It's a good tool against woke games.
>>738777198>game journalist seething about steam reviewsyou just cant hate game reviewers enough
>>738802775Most of the bad reviews are from Chinese Gamers who lost their accounts when the Chinese government chose not to renew its deal with Blizzard.
>>738777198It isn't the fear of bad reviews that has been "forcing" devs to stay safe.
>>738777275complaining about shit game on relase is not review bombing. It's just geniuine reviews of shit game.
>>738803147It's all bad
>>738803228I retract my statement.
>>738802675And like wise woke people are welcome to complain the same way if they don't like a game for it being what they hate.Only purpose of removing the tool is to keep customers from giving feedback.
>>738804078mouth too bignose too bigalso Miles' mom Rio is hotter
>>738777198I don't think Chinese reviews should factor into any western metrics at all.When I go to a store page I shouldn't see any Chinese at all. That's not to say Chinese can't give good reviews, but holy shit they are the weirdest most sensitive, most oddball demographic you'll ever see. They're even weirder than gay people who cry about lack of gay flags.Chinese will give a negative review when their fucking obvious cheese strat gets nerfed. And write a 10 paragraph essay about how this is an affront not only to gamers, but to the Chinese nation
>>738777198>our shit can only work if we have perfect control over the conversation and can silence everybody who disagreesNice ideology you've got there.
>>738790053One of those games is a masterpiece.
>>738777198Eat it, Maratroon.
>>738805406
>>738777198>Reviews killed the AAA games Press FUCKIN X TO DOUBT What really killed the AAA games:-Cheapest Indian slave labour -Cutting corners everywhere -Rushed and short deadlines -ROAD MAPS !!!!!-Micro transaction -Forced DEI hire's without any skills-Live service -Cutting out every little thing what can even a smallest hurt some groups "feelings" until the game became bland as water.- Hardware requirements through the roof. If you want to play the new AAA game you must brute force it- Optimalization non existEnd we have a bunch more of reasons Fuck you
>>738777198No it's an issue with exploding budgets where they have to be as safe as possible to make that money backAdd into that AAA companies have shareholders who want maximum profits and it's no wonder they rarely break the mold
>>738808120Reviews are 90% a meme>no mans sky>sells well, reviews poorly>continues to sell well and review poorly because retards want to spend 60 dollars to be a part of the "LMAO THIS GAMES BAD" meme>Sean "master of lies" Murray adds cars>reviews go from mixed to OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE, continues to sell wellThere was no point in time where reviews actually mattered
>>738808364>safe as possible>still doesn't make money back
>>738791465>>738805308I guarantee you all of them have at least some reviewers in common, so either all of them are masterpieces or all of them were shilled garbage with paid reviews.
>>738777198AAA haven't done anything safe for a long time.if they wanted safe, they'd stop trying to shove modern audience bullshit in their games, and stop disrespecting player's intelligence with shit like yellow paint and handholding guidance
>>738777198>NOOO WTF DO YOU MEAN I CANT JUST CHURN OUT WHATEVER I WANT AND PRETEND ITS SUCCESSFULI should thank and pray to Jesus Christ for existing in the timeline where Valve isn't publicly traded
>>738780276>Nintendo is the only bastion of true gaming that hasn't been ruined.
>>738777198Corporate managerial culture killed videogames in the same way it killed television and movies.Nobody wants to make anything cool. They want to make boring, sanitised bullshit to appeal to gay videogame critics who never play videogames outside of their jobs and chase being the next live service cash cow.
I haven't played an Xbox exclusive since Fable 1I haven't played a Playstation exclusive since Megaman LegendsI haven't played a Nintendo exclusive since pokemon gold & silverI haven't owned a console since PS3Corpos can drown in their own sorrows, I am not their audience despite playing videogames for like 30 years
>>738803223Devs can fix their games, look at lords of the fallen, shits better than dark souls now
>>738812279You think Lords of the Fallen is a good/fixed game?
>>738777198>stick to safe>jewish retards still hiring brown retards to make millennialslop non-games>callling this out is bad???
>>738801556This shit isn't even a walking sim. Where's the walking part?
>>738812490Its fantastic, i think its alot better than that half finished dark souls 1
>>738777198Steam reviews literally do not matter at all for AAA games. Unless the game is literally broken the reviews will be favorable. Most people don’t want to admit they spent 50-80 bucks on a subjectively bad game. So they’ll only be negative about objectively bad games.
>>738812620>>738812685Odd, but I disagree.
>>738777242Fpbp. The negative scores come from playing it safe by copying the same 3 successfull games with the remake galore.
>>738777198You say that yet it has been proven multiple times that steam will arbitrarily label negative reviews as offtopic.
>>738777242I hope for the next video game crash.
>>738812742I think thats just nostalgia talkingObjectively i would say LOTF is a better game, but Dark souls/ Demons souls paved the way for it
>>738812965I'd say Lies of P is better than Dark Souls 1, Lords of the Fallen plays like Dollar General Dark Souls
>>738813074Im talking music atmosphere, customization, variety etc all into account. Gameplay wise p is good but its also very linear and you uave to play as P, so its more like sekiro in that sense
>>738777198Reviews did not fucking kill gaming. Algorithmic based social media acting like reviews is the end all be all of discussion is what killed it lol. Even then, the power of these algorithms is such that they can even veto the review should it feel that generates more attention than celebrating it.
>>738812881Wanna know something wild, compare GamerGate 1 to GamerGate 2.>GamerGate 1>Achieved non of its goals>Kicked off and normalized cancel culture>All sperging got turned into PR donations and attention for grifters to get pitty bux>Only win was actually Peter Theil and Epstein using GG as cover to sue Gawker for publishing their dirty laundry.Basically it made shit worse.>GamerGate 2: a bunch of people notice games turned shittier, discovered why, then said yeah I'm just gonna keep a list of who works with you an not buy your games or interact with you>Gaming industry is on the verge of collapse>Consulting companies are having trouble getting work>Government monitoring of GameChat and homeland secuirity trying to label gamers as terrorists gets blown wide open.Holy shit so this whole time we could have just reported on what was happening, stopped giving them attention and we would have killed all this faggotry in the cradle?Fuck me, that is hilarious.What I love is Devs durring GG1 were seen as heroes caught up in a system they couldn't control and almost like a princess in a castle.Now we hate them and treat them as the faggots they are. Go ahead side with your boss who wants to fire you and your journo friend who lost their job. You aren't special and we NEVER should have treated you like you were.
