Quote from: Worgarthe on Yesterday at 07:42:51Quote from: GeorgeS on February 12, 2026, 23:43:32"At launch, we received over 14k review bombs from users with less than an hour of playtime. Many didn't even finish the required tutorial."
While I have ZERO interest in this type of game I have to wonder how many (if any?) of the 'review bombs' were an effort funded by other stake holders in the genre?
There are many "botfarms" out there and many of them are rentable.
Pretty much 100% bots. No one can give an extensive negative review about the game with "0.1 hours played" as it happened with that game (and many others actually).
Josh Sobel's hands wrote this post.
It was a garbage game. It was shadowdropped as the Next Big Thing(tm) during the Game Awards. Proceeded to show that it was nothing but a by-the-numbers looter-shooter with one very uninteresting gimmick. Proceeded to spend zero time between the TGAs and release to market itself (no commercials, very little social media posts). They made a bad product, knew it was a bad product and didn't market it because of that, and then shipped it. Nobody in that studio, former employee or otherwise, has any right to cry about how it turned out.