• li10@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    I’d be surprised if it really has much of an impact on number of players tbh.

    Most people don’t care, Lemmy/Reddit are a vocal minority.

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      5 months ago

      The game racked up over 10k negative reviews in 90 minutes yesterday. People are pissed. There’s also the issue of PSN only being available in a about a third of all countries.

      I just uninstalled the game over this and I have 350+ hours.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah even if some people keep playing. Someone like myself who was entertaining of getting it would be turned off by seeing negative reviews (why go through the drama if I’m on the fence?).

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      5 months ago

      Vocal minority is the assumption when this sort of collective outrage manifests. This time though, thanks to Steam player count we will actually get some hard numbers and see if that has an effect or not.

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        5 months ago

        At current, there are 32k negative reviews. That’s 32,000 people angry enough to go add or modify a review to be negative. The active player base is 100k. As far as “vocal minority” goes…

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          5 months ago

          Yeah but how many are bark and no bite? Eg, they’ll write the review, but keep playing anyway. That will take some time to find out.

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            5 months ago

            I don’t think it will affect the current playerbase too much. But I think the negative rating on steam will have an effect on sales.

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      5 months ago

      I think said “most people” will care once the game forces them to register for a PSN account.