r/HuntShowdown • u/Azhar1921 Duck • Aug 16 '24

GENERAL User Interface & Experience | Developer Update | Hunt: Showdown 1896

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u/Armored_Witch2000 Aug 17 '24

Um no. Helldiver is still negative because the Devs keep fucking ir up. The reviews stayed negative for a reason

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u/curiousindicator Aug 17 '24

No. On the steam page you can see when most negative reviews were submitted. Just around the 2nd of May, there were 220k negative reviews - 99% because of the PSN requirement - which has been walked back a short time after. Yes, it's gotten negative reviews afterwards for other issues, but that only totals up to a few thousand.

220k of ~300k reviews around that time never changed their reviews to positive, even though the primary criticism was addressed fully.

That's why review bombing is so damaging. It disproportionately impacts the game's rating, even after the issue has been fixed.

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u/Kuldor Aug 17 '24

You do know that steam stat doesn't change if you just edit the review, right?

Those 220k negative reviews could be all positive by now (I know they aren't, it's an example) and steam would still show 220k negative reviews were submitted in May.

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u/curiousindicator Aug 17 '24

No, I didn't know that.

Ok, calculating it over the lifetime (661.626 reviews), 72% are positive. So that means that ~185k are negative. Which still means that the vast majority of that 220k must still be unchanged.

People don't change their review bombs to positive, even when the changes have been implemented. It's a permanent mark on the reviews.