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This is one reason I've effectively stopped caring about steam review bombs. People review bomb over the stupidest shit and never change their review if the tiny issue is fixed
Buying a game because it claims it is available in your language and then getting served an awful, nonsensical translation is absolutely not a stupid reason to leave a bad review.
This will be fixed in a week or two, but 80% of the reviews will not change. That's just what review bombers do. Many buy the game to jump on the band wagon and refund the game. Review still counts.
Didn't steam just change the reviews to be aggregated per language? So Chinese or Russian review bombs won't effect the rating that you see any longer.
there's a setting for that now, i think the default is yes.
That only impacts the reviews if you want to actually read them the total reviews are not filtered.
A game having a bad translation in your language is a valid concern, and not "stupid shit".
From people who have no translation in their own language, yes it is.
Big countries really sound entitled when you've lived a life of your language not even being considered, I understand where they come from but I can't help but feel a little aggravated
Poor translation seems like a pretty fair reason to me tbh, steam now groups reviews by language too
I've stopped caring about steam reviews completely. Too often I have bought a game that was reviewed as overwhelmingly positive and it turned out to be some boring ass niche game. At least I got them refunded.
Yep, this is caused because people flood in from their little discord server where everyone has crawled up the dev's ass. Once you learn to recognize this you'll never be able to unsee it.
For me, it's massive shitpost in reviews which I just want to know if the game is good. The worst thing is their often so unfunny and wish there's a way to filter out those reviews (which is using it loosely)
Ironically, this is how I feel about Hollow Knight lol
Why can't they speak freedom language? 🇺🇲🍔💣🇺🇲 we're here to fuck up democracy and act like the center of the world, and we're out of democracy 🇺🇲
Would be fun if Lemmy had a feature to block people / instances by country, now that I think of it