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God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement
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I hate the "review bombing" term.
It’s been diluted by improper use, not unlike “trolling” or “incel.”
What is the "proper use"?
It’s a set of criteria. Reviews are organized from outside the review site, are negative, and generally come from people without any real interest in the piece of media.
Thats what I thought. Essentially brigading right? Having a universally panned 'feature' in a game and receiving negative reviews should not have the negative connotation that review bombing brings
exactly. Their complaints are actually relevant to the game, not some unrelated ideology
God of War Ragnarok PC port ~~suffers~~ earns review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement
Fixed it for them
I hate that the term "review bombing" completely generalized to just "a lot of negatively reviewing something". Review bombing is supposed to be negative reviewing that's not relevant to the game, like when it was originally used to speak out against publishers, because, you know, that's the only thing that seemed to get their attention. Now we just have the tools and excuses to just kill genuine criticism.
I sympathize with fellow PC gamers for this needles requirement (even though PSN account is my main account). I'm just surprised there's no similar backlash for other devs requiring respective account creation (EA, BioWare, Blizzard etc. etc.). Sony did not invent this practice.
The account creation sucks, but it's mostly in multiplayer games or for a multiplayer feature in a game, to enable things like cross-launcher play and such (not needed if they made it right, still an attempt at data collection). God of War is a singleplayer game that has no need for an account requirement, so it's just there for data collection, singleplayer games shouldn't even be connecting to the internet.
Well if it blocks playing on steam deck and Linux it’s not like other devs requiring account creation.
Edit: looks like this one works on steam deck actually so disregard. Looks like it requires an internet connection to play though which is wack.
Also weird, the game includes the unnecessary PlayStation overlay, which makes it unable to run on Linux. The devs were nice enough to specifically disable the overlay on Steam Deck, but all other Linux players have to set a special launch option to fake being a steam deck in order to get the game to run.
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Remember when this happened with Helldivers and a bunch of people switched their review back from negative to positive when Sony backed off the requirement? Because they'd "learned their lesson"? Lol
G*mers are some of the most entitled, weak-willed people in existence.
As it should.
I think this will end with playstation making yet another launcher on PC. No paying Gabe a cut, PSN all they want, tight review control. Really hope it doesn't come to that.
Then they can join the list of 'AAA' game publishers that have had to eat crow and (re)release on steam after their own launchers flopped horribly.
I hope it does. Then they can fuck off and die nameless, cause I'm not buying it if it's not on steam or gog, and I've recently aso begun not buying it if it requires a PSN account. Take your shitty business practices and stuff them up your console's ass.
Don't you need to have the game in order to review it? Or did that change?
People are buying it, unable to play because of PlayStation account requirement (the PlayStation servers are having issues and not letting people log in or create an account), and then leaving an angry review and refunding it.
People will buy it, review, and then get a refund within the return window.
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I've already beaten the game. It hasn't asked me to sign in. There's still a "sign in" button in the main menu.
I'm guessing they tried to allow it temporarily, hoping it would reduce the backlash, then flip on the requirement later.
The fact that there's a giant box that says account linking is required is enough for me to never touch it. Fitgirl already has a repack so I guess I need to reinstall Windows to get it installed...
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