Just funny and dumb.

Welp… You know what to do, fellow Westerners. Time to counter-review bomb Black Wukong.

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Or how about being a rational gamer and just laugh at the stupidity without resorting to childish, stupid antics.

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I’m sorry; did you need the /s on that?

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I mean yeah. Poe’s Law exists for a reason.

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Everyone needs the /s. It’s simply text, there is no tone to judge your sarcasm by.

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If it’s a call-to-action, you always need the /s. Some people will see it and listen if you don’t. Sometimes you can get away with leaving it off, but not if you’re telling people to do something bad.

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Only ~500 negative reviews… What a nothingburger article lol.

I mean, the Chinese players aren’t totally wrong, support from sales IS an important metric. Swen definitely should have worded that better. But is that worth a negative review, IDK. This seems to line up with Chinese culture as a whole though, which is usually polar opposite to the West.

TheGamer… I can’t say the majority of articles I have personally seen from this site haven’t been poor quality bait articles like this one, so I am going to put this one in the pile with Kotaku, IGN, and the others. The pile of “Rarely makes a decent article but most of the time is easily ignored.”

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I mean, the Chinese players aren’t totally wrong, support from sales IS an important metric. Swen definitely should have worded that better. But is that worth a negative review, IDK. This seems to line up with Chinese culture as a whole though, which is usually polar opposite to the West.

rampant capitalism over workers’ desires lines up with Chinese culture?

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No, I meant that them leaving negative reviews because of what was said is a pretty typically Chinese thing to do. Genshin Impact has been plagued by this for pretty much its entire existence. If you ask anyone, the Chinese playerbase is viewed as incredibly toxic because of this.

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Just LOL

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Didn’t valve release algorithms to stop review bombing? Just delete them

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They did, but this is so little of a blip, it might not have even triggered.

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it’s funnier than thu. there is a Chinese mobile app also getting review bombed because its logo resembles astro bot.

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There’s nothing more awe-inspiring than the online equivalent of a few hundred toddlers screaming for attention.

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Still has 96% recent and 96% overall positive reviews and an “overwhelmingly positive” overall rating.

I don’t think they’re making much of a dent. The article is pretty unclear though on why Chinese gamers are mad, other than that there was a possible “dodgy translation.”

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Is that with Steam’s “recent off-topic activity” system turned on, or off?

Steam introduced something where if they see a large scale of reviews in a short period that express thoughts unrelated to the game itself, they exclude those reviews from the default view of the page.

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I mean, it’s a blip but they were trying.

The gist of it seems to be a few Chinese gamers are upset that Black Myth: Wukong didn’t win game of the year and combined with a bad translation made it seem like Sven, who was presenting, instead of his anti-greed speech was translated into basically saying that he knew who was going to win, like he knew beforehand, and game sales aren’t important, and some took that ask he was mocking Black Myth for not winning.

Just language barriers and general gamer stupidity all around.

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But, also, why Astro Bot?

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The people who review the games are the same people who vote for the winner, and Astro Bot was the best reviewed game of the year.

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Your right, it should have been belatro

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Balatro is the objectively correct choice.

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Because the Game Awards hates indie games.

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That is no indie game.

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You’re*

Learn basic grammar, FFS. You make yourself look like a 12-year-old with learning disabilities by failing to get simple words right.

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Your a dweeb lmao

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Did you understand what they said? Great! They did perfectly fine then. Waste less energies.

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Go back to reddit.

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Have you played Astro Bot? It’s phenomenal. It is the best non-Mario 3D platformer ever made. And possibly in the Top 3 if you include Mario.

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And also a PS5 exclusive. Eww

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That has no relevance to how good and deserving of an award it is.

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IMO, it does. Awards showcase and highlight ‘best of’ games, but what’s the point of highlighting a game that is inaccessible to a significant portion of the gaming community? You could potentially make the argument that their purpose is more towards recognising the efforts and success of the devs, but that’s not the aspect of awards that are being discussed in this context.

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I feel that making a game exclusive can sometimes make better games, because you’re making one game instead of 2 or 3. Even with games that are on multiple systems, one version always ends up being “the definitive”, and the other versions are not up to the same standard because they’re put out just to appeal to a wider audience. Focusing on one system let’s you put everything into making your game great instead of making it accessible.

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  • It’s decently-made (rarely the case with new titles in current year)
  • Concentrated industrial-grade nostalgiabait
  • Doesn’t require the player to be a skilled Gamer
  • Judges determine the majority of the score (who are probably not skilled Gamers)
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And it’s also made by Sony who have a lot of money

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“Big company, therefore manipulation” is one hell of an argument my dude

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These pathetic conspiracy theories should’ve died out in the 90s.

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Cry about it… Astro Bot was fucking awesome.

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Just language barriers and general gamer stupidity all around.

I’m pretty sure nationalistic pride is also a factor. Wukong is not just a game they like, it’s their game.

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The Chinese have glass hearts. You can see it whenever Taiwan gets mentioned as an independent nation.

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I understand being upset if your game didn’t win, but your game came out the same year as Baldur’s Gate 3. I mean come on, you had to know…

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China antis are the most insecure out there. It’s always something stupid

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Chinese gamers upset their total mid jingly keys action game didn’t win?
Imagine my shock

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It’s actually from mistranslations that made it appear like Sven was saying wukong is a cash grab

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~500 negative reviews, c’mon, what a piece of trash article.

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TheGamer is well-known to be a trash drama-generating website.

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So I checked and could not find any review bombing. If there was one, it was tiny and not worth talking about.

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