Just funny and dumb.
Chinese gamers upset their total mid jingly keys action game didn’t win?
Imagine my shock
Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards
Submitted 4 days ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-review-bomb-chinese-players-swen-vincke-game-awards-speech/
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Mandy@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
It’s actually from mistranslations that made it appear like Sven was saying wukong is a cash grab
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
There’s nothing more awe-inspiring than the online equivalent of a few hundred toddlers screaming for attention.
Viri4thus@feddit.org 4 days ago
~500 negative reviews, c’mon, what a piece of trash article.
simple@lemm.ee 4 days ago
TheGamer is well-known to be a trash drama-generating website.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Didn’t valve release algorithms to stop review bombing? Just delete them
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
They did, but this is so little of a blip, it might not have even triggered.
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 4 days ago
China antis are the most insecure out there
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Man people in this thread really excited for a free pass to be racist towards Chinese people lol
nialv7@lemmy.world 3 days ago
it’s funnier than thu. there is a Chinese mobile app also getting review bombed because its logo resembles astro bot.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 days ago
Welp… You know what to do, fellow Westerners. Time to counter-review bomb Black Wukong.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Or how about being a rational gamer and just laugh at the stupidity without resorting to childish, stupid antics.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 days ago
I’m sorry; did you need the /s on that?
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
consequences: 0
hmmm@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Just LOL
gcheliotis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So I checked and could not find any review bombing. If there was one, it was tiny and not worth talking about.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.”
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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 stupidity all around.
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m pretty sure nationalistic pride is also a factor. Wukong is not just a game they like, it’s their game.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
But, also, why Astro Bot?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
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…
Katana314@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.