Wait 36 hours to review bomb-Metacritic makes you wait 36 hours to review a game

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People always think review-bombing is about leaving bad reviews. 
 

Im still sure that a lot of TLOU2’s positive reviews were review bombed as well. 

[straight_stewie]

7 hours ago, piratemonkey said:

I think it's good, though it's not enough. 3 days, IMO, is not enough to prevent review bombing.

I think it'll be more effective than we estimate.

Personally, if I go to a site to do something I'm only passingly interested in, and it's even remotely inconvenient, I immediately give up and usually completely forget about it.

I suspect enough other people behave similarly that this policy will have a larger effect than is being predicted.

[ravenshrike]

10 hours ago, piratemonkey said:

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The only genuinely improved things about TLOU2 are the graphics and audio. The AI is still utterly meh with a few new bells and whistles but nothing spectacular. Which given how much emphasis was put on its improvement in the years leading up to release is hilarious. The combat is effectively the same just with more murderporny animations. The story on the other hand is utter trash.

 

Even ignoring the existence of TLoU, everybody acts as the story dictates, not as their characterization or circumstances dictate. Without knowing Joel's backstory his actions still make no sense. They are explicitly on patrol for raiders hitting their town. There is no way in the post-apocalypse that they would trust an unknown gang of people who are decently geared and covered in weaponry with either their names or their point of origin. The funniest part is that it turns out Druckman managed to ruin a much better story. Originally Abby was going to be brought back to town, and would later learn who Joel was and then wrestle with the implications before killing him, thus setting off Ellie's revenge plot. Which would have made a metric fuckton more sense. Then there's Ellie's estrangement with Joel, which makes no sense since at the end of TLoU she clearly already knows that he's lying to her. What's more, we're supposed to believe that Joel is a monster for rescuing her, and not the Unit 731 wannabe who decided vivsecting to destruction the only known source of symbiosis with the fungus was even a REMOTELY good idea. That doesn't even begin to get into the ethical implications of doing so to a minor without her consent or knowledge that the operation is a death sentence.

Edited July 20, 2020 by wkdpaul

[5x5]

Can Sony and Naughty Dog go fuck themselves already? Talk about massive corporate snowflakes...

[Bombastinator]

Review bombing has been a thing for a very long time.  Long before computers.  It used to be that books that had terrible initial reviews based on stance rather than quality actually drove sales up.  Still works that way to a degree.  “People who didn’t read the book hated it” is sort of a statement by itself.  The 36 hour wait may be too long, it may be not long enough, it may be useless. We shall see.

[WkdPaul]

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[xAcid9]

Wait, did Metacritic fix shit like you can create multiple accounts on same IP and not verify if you actually own/played the game?

I remember early this year one guy bombed a game simply because he don't like the game fanbase and how the game didn't revolve around his crush a.k.a waifu. 

Metacritic score is a joke anyway, just like Rotten Tomatoes.

[Bombastinator]

I see a potential problem with the 36 hour wait in that it forces reviewer bombers to be mixed in with the general population.  The lack of wait was sort of useful in that it separated review bombers and critics from the general population that would play the game and form an opinion after having played it. The wait separates critics from review bombers so it may just lengthen the effective wait for actual reviews.  Used to be one could view any review that came out instantly as possibly crap.  Now the time is more like a week.  Does give critics a say separate from review bombers. Might make games more “designed to be reviewed”.  I dunno.  Again time will tell.

[Bombastinator]

Just had a thought:  what does the sales profile of games look like?  If a game is like a movie and does most of its sales in the 1st 24hours the only opinions that will matter are reviewer opinions.  Just because a game is for sale for years doesn’t mean sales are even throughout that time.

[Doobeedoo]

I mean ok so they make you just wait to post a bad review about a game that's bad. Still, who even looks at these anymore... 

[Bombastinator]

12 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

I mean ok so they make you just wait to post a bad review about a game that's bad. Still, who even looks at these anymore... 

Clearly not everyone.  I’m sure there are statistics.  It’s the kind of things companies like to measure.  I don’t know what they are