Talk:Review bomb

Use a table for this?

We have sufficient prose to establish the nature of a review bomb, and how it impacts (or doesn't) sales. Thus, I think we could fairly replace the current prose describing specific examples with a table that can list game, developer, the "review bomb" date, and the reason why, along with one or more RS references (eg no forum post claims of review bombs). Otherwise, I can see us getting either into inclusion issues of why some review bombs were posted and not others, while avoiding clunky proseline-style approaches.

At least, until we get 1+ more RS articles that talk about the review bomb phenomena and list out several examples from which we can then use as a limited subset of all review bombs, thus providing explicit inclusion metrics. --MASEM (t) 16:32, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Metal Gear Survive

Should Metal Gear Survive be included in the list? Fans of Hideo Kojima were very vocal in their hatred for this game since its initial announcement and that resentment carried over to its Metacritic user rating as it was bombarded by detractors of the game (the majority of which likely never even touched the game, but that's not really relevant). It has very low user scores, every platform having scores under a 2.0/10.2601:642:4201:D231:C45B:B82B:C4CC:8DC6 (talk) 06:39, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm not seeing many sources to support that it was review bombed. It probably doesn't help that the game's gotten luke-warm reception (not a great title) so its hard to see user review bombing against just generally lackluster reception. --Masem (t) 14:54, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

There was review bombing before the game received any review scores from critics. But since there are no sources indicating the review bombing, I'll leave the issue alone.2601:642:4201:D231:1CD4:9762:9BCB:935D (talk) 03:04, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Controversey on RCG's marketing stragety

According to the sales report, Both games in China shared less than 20% respectively of global retail before the event take place. Consider the price in Steam CN region is rather low (50% off compared to base price), it's unlikely that the devs set their vision of fortune on so-called Mainland China. Maybe consider revising the words like "a game primarily aimed at the Chinese market", at certain points it's rather misleading to the readers.--AdomiZ (talk) 13:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Review bombing is (at least mostly) not a thing

When complete garbage gets more negative reviews than positive ones, it's because the product is complete garbage, not because some evil wizard hackers are doing it for fun.

"Pokemon let's go is getting review bombed!" NO IT'S NOT! The game is a prime example of complete and utter trash. Even before it was released, the people that liked the idea of a Pokemon game, where you don't even fight wild Pokemon, was an incredibly tiny minority. This is NOT a "bombing", this is just a case of "The developers decided to make a bad game, and this is what they deserve"!

Steam early access games are ALSO not getting "bombed". The developers promise things, then the games are without updates for months, or even worse, the updates make the game worse and worse, and the people show their opinions!

It should be illegal to simply says "Oh, this is review bombing!" and then proceed to delete a ton of valid negative reviews. This is literally false advertisement. They are faking the numbers. In an extreme case, this could mean that instead of being told that only 1% of the players like something, suddenly you are being told that 100% of the players like the game, just because someone decided "oh no, this is bombing!" and gets rid of negative reviews! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.49.95.176 (talk) 23:49, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Ofcourse, 'Review bombing' is another word for 'using your freedom of speech to point out flaws in the way a game company operates', and, as the way the company operates directly affects how their games are maintained, it's obviously relevant. But sure enough Wikipedia has a hot take to give so better write up that opinion article and yeet those who disagree. We all know why, let's not pretend we don't. Wikipedia is entirely maintained by people who think of freedom of speech not as a primary pillar of civilised society but instead as merely an excuse to be 'hateful'. They suggest the site is 'editable by anyone' to maintain the illusion of democracy, but the reality is if you make any edit that is not in political agreement with the overseers, even if completely factually accurate and within their guidelines, you'll find it removed extremely swiftly. This transformation from Encyclopedia to, frankly, blog, is made easier by only accepting hugely discredited pseudojournalism websites such as 'The Guardian' as sources. This site should not be taken as a credible resource for anything remotely political, it's essentially just the 'Conservapedia' of the other extreme of the political spectrum. Articles like these are there to be laughed at not taken seriously.2A00:23C4:E0B1:8101:5537:F846:334:D1A9 (talk) 13:20, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

I'm fully aware that many gamers see review bombing as a means of speech to impact the developer (I don't know necessary agree, but that's not the point here). The problem is, we have to go with what reliable sourses say, and there are no reliable sources that present review bombing like this. To state that, that would fail WP:V and other core policies. --Masem (t) 14:38, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

It doesn't matter what people's opinions are, the wiki should always concentrate on facts, not on the feels. Stay objective instead of subjective. If Warcraft 3 Reforged got voted into a 0,5/10 by more than 29 thousands people - that's the sign of negative reception, all speculations about WHY it got negative impact are irrelevant to the main articles.2A00:1370:8111:4317:B8D3:ACF7:8F55:D96C (talk) 02:12, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Death Stranding

I think Death Stranding should certainly have a place on this article, considering it has received over 14,000 Metacritic reviews in half a month, which I'm sure has set some sort of record on the site for the most reviews left in so short a time (if of all time). To put it into perspective, Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2017) has received over 8,000 reviews in 2 years. The main difference to typical review-bombing however is that the range of positive and negative reviews has settled to around 50/50. Anyone disagree with its inclusion? -- Wikibenboy94 (talk) 12:27, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, it can't be included just because you see that on MC. We need sources calling it a review bomb. --Masem (t) 13:12, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

I have seen sources making note of this, unfortunately what few there are I'm not sure would be considered reliable or not, aside from perhaps Push Square. -- Wikibenboy94 (talk) 13:50, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Formatted listing of examples

I think there really needs to be some organized formatting of the examples given on this page, particularly the video games. It's far too long and sloppy. Perhaps arranged by year/decade? -- Wikibenboy94 (talk) 13:45, 22 November 2019 (UTC)