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Aaron Keller pledged to improve the game for "players who are playing now."

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (58 children)

If real people hate your game because of the changes you made from the last one (that you took away from them), that's not a review bomb.

It's just a review.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes "review bombing" also known as getting shit on for delivering shit when u promised gold...

[–] Astroturfed 2 points 1 year ago

Really hate this term. It's just an excuse for bad reviews. People hate your product, they left bad reviews. Why is there a special term? Corporate apologist bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Make stupid games win stupid prizes

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Evidently playing the game isn't a fun experience either, Aaron.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Playing the matches is fun, since it is just Overwatch. Literally the same gameplay as Overwatch, but with 5 per team instead of 6.

In between is an assault of micro transaction manipulation bullshit that ruins the experience. PvE is hidden behind a paywall, except for the free stuff that is a retread of the seasonal PvE from Overwatch. I know this because I gave it some hours to see if it was as bad as people were saying.

People hate it because it was supposed to be an improvement but instead it was just another attempt to bleed the players dry. It might be the only game I have reviewed negatively on steam because the monetization really is that bad that it ruins the whole game.

[–] bl4ckblooc 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn’t someone call it in another thread saying they will just call this review bombing and go on their merry way?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"Aaron Keller gets that (people are upset). "That announcement was about an ambitious project that we ultimately couldn't deliver."

On one end, he could be lying, after all it's not like they didn't have working prototypes and cinematic for the new game mode that wasn't deliverable

Or.

He is telling the truth. Then making people return to the office impacted blizzard's bottom line more then they thought and was a stupid decision that they should end ASAP.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is why Jeff Kaplan left. My boy wasn’t gonna fall on this sword.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Review bombs generally dont last the entire release of a game. Perhaps you just made a shit game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If you're the game director and had so little sway to the producers /publishers, then you're nothing but a "yes man" figure head. Maybe go back to dev, the executive role isn't for you.

Otherwise, the only excuse is you initiated all these changes and you are completely out of touch with your customers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not having a PVP experience when you marketed it extensively kinda sucks.

[–] rigatti 3 points 1 year ago

PVE? They did release a couple PVE missions but they're overpriced and not what was promised previously.

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