That’s absurd, they’d do the same for any other game. This is just the first time they’ve used the system. Coincidence.

I agree with them not weighting the score, Steams mod approach to this is the appropriate reaction. Hell if they wanna mark the actual reviews off topic too go for it, I just agree that they should be left up.

What is up with all of you and the false equivalencies? Don’t be obtuse for the sake of it, it’s annoying. We are not talking about what happens in any of the games, we are talking about a decision the pub made that impacts the games release. This has nothing to do with their content in the slightest. 

lol

What are you even talking about? False equivalencies and strawmans aren’t a good way to try and make a point... How is letting someone know the third installment in a series might disagree with their buying principles fake news? That’s a perfectly reasonable thing to put in a review of older games in case that person…

Well that was a jump in telling me what I think. You also don’t get to decide what’s appropriate. All I see is people complaining about a tactic because it worked and now they have to read about it on their gaming blog of choice. Have you been so inconvenienced that you get to gatekeep communication now? 

Those aren’t nearly as visible though. I’m not saying review bombing is ideal, but it is the best option right now because you can mod Twitter and Facebook, 2k or Gearbox have no control over their Steam page. Everyone including yourself calling it childish is being ridiculous. I’m sorry suddenly the review portion of…

Sorry you feel that way. 

First, no one is complaining about games releasing on any other platform than Steam, you’ve missed the point or are ignoring it to get snarky with me. I’ve never seen anyone bitch about GOG or itch.io, no one complains that Discord has a storefront now. People might complain about first party launchers cause Origin…

So I just popped over and checked a few pages of the negative reviews, and to my surprise, they’re pretty tame. Most of them reasonable outside of some middle finger text art, which is more laughable than offensive. I’m just saying I think Steams level of modding on this is appropriate, and as long as the review is…

I don’t see why they shouldn’t be visible. Yes bring the score back up, yes put a footnote, but even though they may be off topic, same people might still want to know when making the purchase. Though I imagine anyone who might be swayed by them has already made up their mind based on Gearbox’s decision, but you never…

A wild strawman appears!

Well luckily From has the money, so they don’t answer to publishers, just like David Fincher can do whatever he wants.

No it’s not. Braille is just a different format of the same thing, a translation. It doesn’t make the book any easier to process or read. Ulysses in text or braille is still Ulysses, and still hard as fuck to read. There is no easy mode for hard literature, or abstract film, etc., and the consumer does not get to…

Difficulty in a souls game is the point though, it’s fundamental to the entire game’s design, so you do lose something in the process in this case. You wouldn’t tell an author or filmmaker to dial back their vision to make it more accessible to a mass audience if it’s not what they want, or how they want to…

difficulty in souls games is the point, full stop. That’s the end of the argument, that’s the game. An easy mode is antithetical to the fundamental design. So in this case, an easy mode detracts from the entire experience. You wouldn’t tell David Foster Wallace that he should have dialed back his writing so more…

I’d say this is one situation where EA should have had a tighter grip on Bioware honestly. With Bioware’s leadership being total garbage at making decisions, it sounded like they needed an EA producer in the office keeping tabs on what they weren’t doing for 5 years of prepro.

no, you can’t. 

The fuck you can’t. 

the cops killed a man.