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God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's like the Helldivers 2 incident, but for a single-player game, there's no excuse.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't you need to have the game in order to review it? Or did that change?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

People are buying it, unable to play because of PlayStation account requirement (the PlayStation servers are having issues and not letting people log in or create an account), and then leaving an angry review and refunding it.

[–] 474D 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

People will buy it, review, and then get a refund within the return window.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I was thinking that after I commented. Sounds right.

[–] paraphrand -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That does sound like review bombing then. People elsewhere in the thread are arguing about definitions.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I read those conversations. I wouldn't call this review bombing. This is people buying it and being upset with the product, then leaving a review and returning it.

That's part of what a review system is meant for.