While Starfield still has a few weeks to go until it’s in the hands of players, some malcontents have decided to plan a bombing campaign of bad reviews against Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG. The plan takes shape as the long-drawn-out excitement builds to a head before the September 6 launch.
Starfield may suffer a Review Bomb due to childish Console Wars
And prolonged is an understatement to express how long players have waited to explore the massive open galaxy and grounded gameplay since its announcement in 2018. While some excited people are already planning what the character they are going to create will be like, other embittered ones are planning a campaign to fill Starfield reviews with negative reviews.
The goal of such “fans” is to lower the game’s score on Metacritic and the campaign was encouraged through a post on X that tries to draw the attention of the popular rating site to this scheme. These dedicated haters are motivated by their frustration at not being able to play the title due to Starfield‘s PC and Xbox-only exclusivity, and some of these disgruntled players plan to publicly lower the score at launch so that those involved in development can heed this criticism. and who knows, maybe do something about it.
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The user with the not-so-surprising nickname XbotTears360 claims that he and his ilk have created the first of a thousand fake accounts that will be used to bombard Starfield with negative reviews. One of the responses in the post that was in favor of the campaign states that it was already “payback time” for negative criticisms thrown at PlayStation-exclusive titles in previous cases and that it alone had already created 100 more fake accounts to reduce the Starfield rating. Another comment already said that since the beginning of August, there were a “ton of PS players” who planned to downgrade Starfield just because of the lack of availability on their consoles.
These negative criticism campaigns without actually testing the product are becoming more and more common, not only in video games, but also in films and series, to express a type of annoyance on the part of the public, but also contaminate the real evaluation of the project. While titles like Starfield are targets only for exclusivity for a specific console, others have already been in the crosshairs of movements for much more regrettable reasons, such as The Last of Us Part II for the fair inclusion of LGBTQIA+ characters.
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Although the discontent is understandable and even demonstrates a certain admiration for the game in question since the attacks are from those who would like to play it, the classification of the title will not necessarily affect the top executives who make the exclusivity decisions for the benefit of the money but it can lead to smaller designers and developers losing a considerable amount of money that they would use to fairly pay employees and invest in future projects.
To summarize, if you support practices like this, please rethink what it could do in the long run and consider another way to express your criticisms constructively.
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