1y ago

Apex Legends Piles Up 10,000 Negative Steam Reviews As Players Fight Price Hikes

kotaku.com

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It's not review bombing. Review bombing would be if they were spamming negative reviews on Titanfall 2 because of what they did to Apex. This is just making a negative review because it's justified.
- This! People misuse the term all the time
So they’re essentially charging double for season pass by splitting it into two season halves. Player are right to be upset, that’s just greedy.
Yet the article goes on to say, “In short, the news has hardly gone over well, and if you check out Apex Legends’ Steam page right now, its recent reviews have fallen to “Overwhelmingly Negative,” a distinction reserved for either the absolute worst games or the targets of Steam bombings. The latter happens to be the case here.”
Please explain to me how this is “review bombing”.
- Isn't it the definition of review bombing? Review bombing is a concentrated spike in negative reviews due to something the community doesn't like usually. It doesn't have to be a negative thing and in this case seems quite justified. That still doesn't make it normal organic review behavior.
  
  When else would they post a negative review? The negative change just happened, so it makes sense that players would be posting negative reviews now.
  As for why people are responding negatively to this being called review bombing, a lot times the term is used to dismiss the bad reviews. "Those aren't real negative reviews, we just got review bombed. Those players sure are fickle, aren't they?" Basically calling it review bombing just makes it sound like the negative reviews aren't legitimate and don't have a valid reason to recommend against the game.
  
  If everyone writes a review in response to a terrible change in an update, it's not a review bomb.
  If none of these players knew about this, but started reviewing this game or a different game from the same company, it's review bombing.
  A concentrated spike in reviews == review bombing.
  
  It’s a review of the product as it exists. Sounds pretty organic.

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