>Review bombs, for the uninitiated, are when a mob descends on Steam to leave a flood of poor reviews - often accompanied by a grossly offensive comment - on a game whose developer has done something to raise their hackles. The most recent example was the review-bombing of Firewatch after its developers demanded PewDiePie remove videos of the game following his latest racist "slip of the tongue", but dozens of developers have been targeted for this kind of treatment, often simply for the sin of being female or a minority, or for in some way otherwise upsetting the denizens of Reddit and Sup Forums. >Ultimately, though, the work Blizzard is doing on Overwatch - and that other companies that genuinely care about this issue, such as League of Legends creator Riot, are doing on their games - is about people, not algorithms. Clever design and good code gets you so far in managing human behaviour >Valve absolutely knows it could fix this issue with tighter rules, more human supervision and, yes, some better algorithms to report back to those supervisors; it just doesn't want to do that, because that's not its philosophy. >Valve's critics don't pile on the company out of dislike, but out of disappointment at seeing such a vital part of the industry go to seed; if the company is really serious about fixing these issues, we'd suggest that a good first step would be to put down the graphs and see if maybe Blizzard is free for a chat on the phone.
>Valve >Owners of the largest platform for PC game distribution for over 15 years and counting. >Giving a single fuck about Blizzard asking their customers to play nicer.
What were you even trying to accomplish with this thread?
Kayden Turner
shilling his gay site/article
Isaac Wilson
> blizzard censorship
Valve barely did anything, and blizzard still came out like a fool.
Gabriel Stewart
What the fuck is gamesindustry.biz? Don't click that clickbait link.
Sebastian Perry
How is Blizzard policing its community in game relatable to store page review bombs? They don't even seem comparable.
Samuel Ward
We had this thread a few hours ago. Stop shilling for fucking clicks.
Jose Morgan
>it's a some literal who "games journalist" writes an article with a halfassed attempt at taking a neutral stance while blatantly parading his blind leftist agenda episode
Jordan Brown
And someone posts it on Sup Forums for easy clicks
Elijah Young
>blizzard >make a waifubait TF2 clone carried entirely by waifus and blizzdrones aka WoWbabies
>riot >make a waifubait Dota2 clone carried entirely by waifus and the nigh-limitless f2p audience
I wish Valve would MAKE GAMES and lead the industry again. fuck butthurt authoritarian maoists and their demands for strict censorship programs. they should ask their patron Daddy Soros to spot them the price of a plane ticket to China if they want to live in a country that successfully carried out Cultural Revolution.
Noah Morgan
>often simply for the sin of being female or a minority Do they actually believe this shit?
Jayden Anderson
You know why there's a big push to censor 'hateful' content and speech (basically anything that doesn't agree with their ideology) universally now? Because the regressive left is realizing our words have power, and it's scared them shitless. Hence the massive, coordinated effort on all fronts to deplatform, censor, or otherwise silence dissenting voices.
They might as well try introducing newspeak at this point, after all, 'the idea of revolt is impossible if no one has the words to express it'.
Angel Hernandez
>gameindustry.biz clickbait, ignore
Christopher Diaz
>managing human behavior that is not your job.
Adam Moore
Why does 'Liberals' always want to infringe on peoples right to speak?
Isaiah Collins
It's why the IMDb forums were deleted after Trump won.
>complain about random shit in LoL >dinndunnb& >call people faggots in Dota 2 >nothing happens
David Reyes
>Not archive Spot the shill.
sage
Justin Sullivan
>often simply for the sin of being female or a minority
blatant lie. Name ONE example.
Joshua Smith
>consumers using one of the very few widely visible avenues of feedback they have to call out bullshit from the dev/publisher side >Valve even implements tools to filter these complaints so users can isolate them from positive or prior negative reviews and see if it's only regional or caused by some recent malicious practice or a patch broke game mechanics etc., so it's not misleading or confusing to anyone >NO, THEY ARE BAD GOYIM AND MUST BE SILENCED
The absolute state of US media.
Thomas Jones
>often simply for the sin of being female or a minority, or for in some way otherwise upsetting the denizens of Reddit and Sup Forums.
When has that happened? Most review bombs were for instituting shill microtransaction shops in games that didn't need them or designed for them and were just tweeked community mods.
Nicholas Wood
>Because the regressive left is realizing our words have power, and it's scared them shitless. >Calling someone a nigger cuck is power.
Connor Hill
Btfo? One of the only things I like about Valve is that I can actually talk shit in a video game
Angel Wilson
>feedback is only ok as long as it is positive >if not your are a racist homophobe nazi and should be banned i have this feeling this whole sjw is orchestrated by big corporation to make people even more prone and accepting to being butt fucked.
Lincoln Collins
>managing human behaviour
oh ok
Anthony Diaz
Valve putting all the tools into your hands so that you can make up your own mind is still not enough for these people, christ.
Samuel Torres
>Overwatch >clever design
That game is a mess and a hotbed for retards because everything revolves around not making shitty players feel bad. This in turn frustrates people because you become over-reliant on your teammates and it is hard to distinguish who is the shitter dragging the team down.
Isaac James
if it makes them upset (which it often does) then yea, it is power. And because they are hurt by it, they are scared and want it gone. After nigger cuck they go after anyone who doesn't spam trump's twitter with "I hate you" massages and after that its anyone for wrongthink like in islam. That's how it always starts and always ends. Don't be naive.
Ethan Wood
>Calling someone a nigger cuck is power I dont know, you tell me >refuse to refer to mentally unstable men as women >riots on college campus
Sebastian James
>Clever design and good code gets you so far in managing human behavior >managing human behavior
This right here is why I can't stand these fucks. I don't mind if a company reminds its players about the golden rule, but when they start engaging in social engineering is where they lose me. I'd rather have a varied and interesting community with all the bullshit that entails over some forced homogeneous bubble. The level of permeation that this thin-skinned PC bullshit culture has reached almost makes me wish for another world war, just to show people the insignificance of trolling and shit talk in their dumb online games.
Parker Jones
It's actually where most gaming news websites have been getting their news for more than 10 years now. Newfag.
