• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Possible reasons why this happens:

    • An update was recently released that changed the game for the worse, causing long-time players to change their review.
    • It’s an early access title that’s been abandoned by the developer, and is being justifiably review bombed as a result.
    • It was recently included in a bundle, so there’s a lot of new players who weren’t interested enough to buy the game on its own, but played it after receiving it in the bundle and were unimpressed. I’d give this one the least weight, because often times those are players who just don’t like the genre or went in with too-high expectations for a low budget game.
    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      You forgot

      An update was recently released that didnt change the game in a way some long-term players wanted, and they’re angry they fell for hype from streamers and are taking it out on the devs instead.

      Or, as we recently saw in helldivers

      An update was recently released with a bad translation, and gave players an expectation they could do something that they couldn’t, and it became politicized