Is Starfield Being Review Bombed? Plus It Reaches 6 MILLION Players!
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Starfield's user reviews are rolling in from Metacritic and they aren't that great. However, they don't seem to be aligning with the user reviews from Steam...

Seems kind of like the game is just suffering from reactionaries, but I definitely don’t put that much stock in critic reviews these days either.

    • ObiWanGurobi@feddit.deEnglish
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      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 total 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 rating manipulation.

        • ObiWanGurobi@feddit.deEnglish
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          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 actually encourages it

                • ObiWanGurobi@feddit.deEnglish
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                  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.

                  • daellat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                    1 year ago

                    I did not mention it at all not even in my original comment, also yes its ME that said it was a review bomb lol. it’s like talking to a wall. cya.