To me "review bomb" implies giving a rating based on external or irrelevant factors. Giving a game a bad review because it doesn't run correctly on your computer is perfectly valid and helpful to other users.
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It ran fine since 2017 and got blindsided by MS. Anyone blaming Ubisoft is biased af, or has information not included in this article.
Yeah, the billion dollar game developer doesn't have the resources to test preview editions of the only PC OS their game is designed for. They're just a small startup of ~20k employees. How are they supposed to allocated anyone to patching a game from their most popular franchise?
You're right, it's the consumers fault for being biased.
Brb gonna test those old 1995 games and if they don't run on Windows 11 I'll review bomb Eidos.
If they're selling the game somewhere right now (like GOG) and it doesn't run on your computer then it's perfectly acceptable to give it a review rating of "Not Recommended"
The game is an eight years old single player game. I doubt they had many people working on it anymore.
So, people should leave positive reviews for games that no longer work?
Like I get what your saying. It's not Ubisoft's fault.
But if they're not going to fix their old game, than it should be reviewed negatively so people don't spend money on a game that no longer works.
If they don't want that, than delist it.
I didn't want to discredit the reviews, just give more context to the situation. I don't think that there is any AAA dev that has 8 year old games at such a high priority level that they would fix any "posthumous" issues immediately.
Sure
But when people are replying to
https://lemm.ee/comment/17210238
Saying that anyone not calling out Microsoft is biased, is a bad take. And I'm not sure what your point of more context is needed?
A broken game gets negative reviews. I'm not sure what's biased about this.
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It is due to an external factor - Microsoft
Star Wars Outlaws in particular received a temporary fix for crashing issues back in November. While Microsoft and Ubisoft have been working on a fix, issues with games like Assassin's Creed Origins still remain.
If a fix exists for other games and not this one and you've been negatively affected, that's a 100% acceptable reason to give a "Not Recommend" review.
Then maybe you should revise your comment to say external factors are valid
That's not an external factor. It's the absence of a patch in the game.
I feel like you don’t know what an external factor is
The game was in a working state, an update by an external company for an external application (the OS) caused the issue
What state is the game currently in for these users? Not working. Why would they recommend it?
Then maybe you should revise your comment to say external factors are valid
It's literally not external.
Oh so they pushed the Windows update that broke it
Sorry, my mistake
Is the game supposed to work on Windows? Does it?
The version of Windows it was released on, it would be silly to think it includes future versions
I'm not going to discuss this any more. This is a perfectly acceptable review of the game. Seeing mixed or negative scores for recent reviews is important for potential buyers. Ubisoft has made patches for other games affected by this but not this one. This is not review bombing.
I wouldn’t call it review bombing either nor would I call it an illegitimate review
I would say that your definition of review bombing is incorrect as we can both agree the above is legitimate and caused by an external factor
If you agree this isn't review bombing, what the fuck are you even arguing about??? 🙄 It's not external. It's the game crashing. External would be something like "I don't like this company's CEO so I'm giving it a bad review."
It’s external, the issue was not created by a game update, an OS update caused it
Still not a review bomb
It ain't review bombing if the game's not working properly. That's just called an accurate review. Of course the gaming journalism industry has to make sure all of its headlines are anti-consumers possible though.
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Shit Ubisoft game gets shit reviews, news at 11
You didn't even read the entire title, did you?
I have no clue what you’re talking about? Is AC not a Ubisoft game?
[Due to a Windows 11 update causing issues. ]
You can blame Ubisoft all you want, but 1) it's not their fault and 2) this game isn't considered terrible in any way.
lol, isn’t their fault? Multi billion dollar company can’t bother to make their game work while thousands+ of other AAA and indie titles continue to work without a hitch?
It's not their fault, because they were blindsided by the update to Windows, just like everyone else. They are working on a patch, but this takes time.
That’s funny, none of the other games I play are affected, do you have any examples?
Just because you aren't affected, this doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.
Reports of people having issues with various games crashing due to this update go back to August.
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