• li10@feddit.uk
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    6 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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      6 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.

      • theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 months ago

        They fumbled a (bigger) bag with this whole dungeon master Joel meme. This will be the last straw for many.

        The player base is tearing itself apart with conservatives getting genuinely furious about the Creek incident and team-killing participants on sight while everyone else just wants to have fun playing the game.

        With things like these you need to lean HARD away from the idiot fascists in all media out of game. They did not, and are reaping the consequences.

        • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          What in the world happened? I played a lot in the first few weeks and remember the Creek situation as just being some people who played that planet constantly. How tf did real world politics come into that situation specifically?

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            6 months ago

            There was a major order that barely failed because people were playing on Creek instead of defending supply lines.

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              6 months ago

              Yeah I know about that, like I indicated in my comment up there. How in the world do conservatives factor into that situation? That’s what the commentor above said and I’m curious.

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            There was a major order that barely failed because people were playing on Creek instead of defending supply lines.

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              6 months ago

              The supply lines were Creeking when people tried to play? Oh no. Why is that bad?

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        6 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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      6 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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        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…

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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          6 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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            6 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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      6 months ago

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