EldritchFeminity

@EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People have been doing it for years as far as I know. It’s kinda where this whole “review bombing” thing comes from. It seems like Valve’s policy is to label these kinds of mass reviews as “off-topic activity” and remove them from affecting the normal rating for the game. If you see a game with an asterisk next to its score on Steam, hovering over the asterisk will tell you that some reviews have been removed from the score for this reason. They’re still publicly there, and you can go into the details of the score to see those periods highlighted, but they no longer affect the score that you see on the storefront.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam has a very generous 2 hours played policy where the system will basically refund you no questions asked so long as you have played less than 2 hours of the game (refunds beyond that are totally possible but usually require manual review before approval).

  This means that you can buy the game, open it once, leave a negative review, and get it refunded. Which is more impactful on Sony’s bottom line than leaving a review on Metacritic or something because it directly affects the game’s rating on the largest platform for PC gaming, and is therefore more likely to see action taken to fix the issue. Sony doesn’t care if people make angry social media posts, but they will care if they can directly see it impacting their profit margins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To remove any residual feces or salmonella that might still be on the shell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, TIL. I’d always heard that you need to wash eggs before using them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are pre-rinsed eggs in the US? I know our rice comes pre-washed, but I’ve never heard of pre-washed eggs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games can boost creativity in young⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re an old-school Runescape player setting up their afk-grind so that they don’t lose xp efficiency while they play a game with their friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware, I just couldn’t miss the chance to call gamers idiots. Because we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  we didnt talk to random idiots

  every gamer on the planet

  So what’s the truth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a nutjob in that I just…don’t really care about GTA VI. The graphics look great, I’m sure the world will be awesome, but…after what Rockstar did to GTA V’s singleplayer and RDR2 as a whole (abandoning both in favor of printing money through Shark Cards), plus the whole “Rockstar Magic” working conditions thing from awhile ago (and I even forgot about the whole GTA V PC issue), I’m just not really excited for this.

  Maybe I’m just disillusioned, but I was much more excited when the Armored Core 6 teaser dropped - a series I had never even played before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they’re mad that any singleplayer content planned for GTA 5 (and RDR2) in the past decade was abandoned for the money printing machine that is GTA Online. There’s issues to be had with premium currencies (more specifically the stuff that usually goes along with them like lootboxes), but that’s not just a GTA thing.

  Also, just because other people created content for a game through mods doesn’t mean we should give the company that made the game credit. That’s like praising a Bethesda game based on a total overhaul mod somebody made.