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    22 days ago

    I had a dev respond to me 5+ years after a review saying they had fixed the problems I mentioned. Now I have to download the game and play it again or I have no balls. God damn devs holding us accountable.

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    24 days ago

    time spent in game when making a review: 600 hours.

    I hate this game.

    time spent in game after the review was written: 1400 hours.

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        23 days ago

        Every MMO on steam is at mixed with negative reviews from 1000 hour players lol. Stop doing this to yourselves!

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          22 days ago

          I think it’s more they love the game, but hate a specific thing that happens in an update, like their favourite character/ability gets rightfully nerfed, so they throw a tantrum by giving negative review.

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    24 days ago

    For a laugh, review games on Google Play. The asinine responses you get…

    The most ridiculous one was for a pay-to-win bullethell game WITH NO BULLETS. You literally just effortlessly shot at enemies with virtually no way to die. But you could pay stupid sums of money for a better ship which killed enemies faster.

    The dev’s response to my review calling their game overpriced and boring? “Join the discord so you can get tips from top players”

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    24 days ago

    I always try to keep my reviews constructive for small devs. So far, they’ve always appreciated the detailed feedback. I’ve had a few where I completely changed my reviews after they fixed my complaints and let me know about the update.

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      after they fixed my complaints and let me know about the update

      Patch note for release 0.7.34
      - Allow junk loot to be droppable
      - Addressed feedback from user Dettweiler42 "This shit game sucks ass!!" to suck 80% less ass
      - Removed placeholder mob mechanic when in certain situations
      
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    22 days ago

    I left a negative review on a “AAA” game and the dev responded to it by gas lighting me that I didn’t play it right.

    TL;DR starfield sucks

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    24 days ago

    Steam reviews are very important, even big studios like bethesda reply to negative reviews.

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      24 days ago

      Gta 5 doesn’t allow linux users to play online anymore. Everyone from the linux community shat on them, especially because it was one of the top played games on deck. Where are my rockstar replies?

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        24 days ago

        Rockstar is just asleep on the big pile of money that they got from the 100 people that bought shark cards every month since the release of GTAO and RDRO

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          Unfortunately they didn’t buy enough RDRO gold for it to get nearly as much support as GTAO did. Which is a damn shame because that game was awesome with friends, for the little content it had

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      24 days ago

      That would be incredibly stupid.

      1 bad review wouldn’t put me off a game I was genuinely interested in, but the dev being a total douche canoe would.

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        I like to read the bad reviews. I know everyone has different tastes. A constructive bad review can sell me a game if the things that person didn’t like aren’t a deal breaker for me.

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    24 days ago

    Reminds me of when someone left a leaf-blowing simulator a review “can’t sex the leaves” and it caused the dev to make a sex update to a leaf blowing simulator

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      The joke is that people (including the main character/OP) feel comfortable criticizing others when those others don’t know about the criticism, but as soon as they do, the anti-confrontational/cowardly/etc. part of them immediately regrets being critical.

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      23 days ago

      I think some people keep playing the same game long beyond the point where it stops being fun.

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      I will say that games aren’t static any more so there are legitimate reasons why this might occur. For instance, I had over 100 hours in a game and then the devs decided they liked money more than their player base so they retroactively added a bunch of micro-transactions to the game. The game had been fully released at this point and they just updated it to milk more money out of their player base. Bad updates can ruin the experience in what had once been a good game.