Immediately saying this here: This is not a call to action in any way shape or form. I make this post merely to give my take on the topic and try to have a discussion with people who are against review bombing Darktide. My silver bullet, I always think, of when it comes to review bombing is that it…

Because perception is reality for consumers. And a lot of steam players read reviews. This is why they push to console, because players cannot be heard as easily as PC.

[image] eatingsand: It’s a pragmatic thought, but in actual reality they’ll just remove the reviews and then some. Steam explicitly just blacks out review bombs. So what you’re actually going to be achieving is getting a bunch of legitimate reviews removed alongside the organized review bomb, mo…

Opinions change overtime. It’s as simple as that.

[image] MunKy: There is no guarantee the majority will bomb for the reasons you want. Correct, but then again, we won’t know what will really happen until we won’t try it for real.

definitely this. i said several times how i prefer a game with fewer, but more dangerous enemies over one with a mass of enemies stuck in each other because they’re easy to kill. the former is clear, simple and has memorable fights. the latter is cluttered, confusing, and nothing but the sheer mass…

[image] Dev Blog - No Man’s Land Level Design Announcements We’ve interviewed the level designer behind the latest Operation, No Man’s Land! [Warhammer 40,000: Darktide - No Man's Land | Free Update Trailer] Hello, everyone! As you saw, December 2…

[image] anon73549677: DTCW assets What’s that?

Haven’t read through the whole thread so it’s possible I’ll just be repeating someone else’s points. Review bombing is fundamentally an organised protest of sorts, which in itself would be fine. What’s not fine is that it’s abusive of a system created for a different purpose and it’s coercive in na…

[image] Hammer_hold: The way I see review bombing, in relation to Darktide, is that people would drop negative reviews on the game’s Steam page pointing out the aspects that FatShark keeps neglecting (stuff like the constantly growing power creep and enemy spam going with it; unaddressed solo mo…

Shorthand for whatever the (hypothetical as of now) Chaos Wastes equivalent will be in DT.

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