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Assassin's Creed Origins is Being Review Bombed [Due to a Windows 11 update causing issues. ] (gamerant.com)

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 79 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To me "review bomb" implies giving a rating based on external or irrelevant factors. Giving a game a bad review because it doesn't run correctly on your computer is perfectly valid and helpful to other users.

[–] wick@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It ran fine since 2017 and got blindsided by MS. Anyone blaming Ubisoft is biased af, or has information not included in this article.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, the billion dollar game developer doesn't have the resources to test preview editions of the only PC OS their game is designed for. They're just a small startup of ~20k employees. How are they supposed to allocated anyone to patching a game from their most popular franchise?

You're right, it's the consumers fault for being biased.

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Brb gonna test those old 1995 games and if they don't run on Windows 11 I'll review bomb Eidos.

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

The game is an eight years old single player game. I doubt they had many people working on it anymore.

[–] wick@lemm.ee -2 points 2 days ago

They do have the resources, they also have the expectation they won't need to waste them on dumb shit MS breaks.

Ubisoft IS the consumer of MS products. But I guess your sympathies for consumers is only skin deep.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It ain't review bombing if the game's not working properly. That's just called an accurate review. Of course the gaming journalism industry has to make sure all of its headlines are anti-consumers possible though.

[+] Ulrich@feddit.org -20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The problem is that you have some weird conception of what "review bombing" means. You seem to be under the misconception that it has something to do with somehow illegitimate reviews.

All that it means is massive amounts of negative reviews in a short time. It's pretty self-explanatory, really.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's the sterilized, literal definition, but it's very common for "review bombing" to be framed as immature gamers throwing a temper tantrum. It's denotation vs. connotation.

[+] Ulrich@feddit.org -15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's never framed that way. I know because people complain about it literally every time it's used in this context.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's always framed that way.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then why do people complain about this every single time the phrase is used? Can you provide an example of it being used in that way?

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not understanding what you're confused about here. The suggestion here isn't that they're using the phrase wrong out of some kind of bumbling incompetence. I'm very clearly suggesting they're using the phrase wrong in an Insidious effort to denigrate consumers. I've not hidden that at all. They are intentionally using it to make criticism of game companies sound irrational. That is the goal. That is the point.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not understanding what you're confused about here. What does any of that have to do with my comment? And why would they do that?

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

They would do that because the video game journalism industry is extremely anti-consumer. They're basically paid mouthpieces. Their job is to sell video games.

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works -5 points 3 days ago

This.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shit Ubisoft game gets shit reviews, news at 11

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You didn't even read the entire title, did you?

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I have no clue what you’re talking about? Is AC not a Ubisoft game?

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[Due to a Windows 11 update causing issues. ]

You can blame Ubisoft all you want, but 1) it's not their fault and 2) this game isn't considered terrible in any way.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lol, isn’t their fault? Multi billion dollar company can’t bother to make their game work while thousands+ of other AAA and indie titles continue to work without a hitch?

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not their fault, because they were blindsided by the update to Windows, just like everyone else. They are working on a patch, but this takes time.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s funny, none of the other games I play are affected, do you have any examples?

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago

Just because you aren't affected, this doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/12/19/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-24h2-issue-is-breaking-games-yanks-update-for-more-pcs/

Reports of people having issues with various games crashing due to this update go back to August.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works -4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ubisoft = Bad, Steam = Good.
Upvote to the left.

Seriously gamers, don't buy Ubisoft's games and stop crying.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't understand. These reviews seem accurate to people who have yet to buy the game, so the score properly reflecting the current state of the game warning potential buyers to not buy it.

Reviews would be useless if they didn't change and people buying the game because reviews reflecting game is fine.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago

This is the exact reason why Steam had a separate "recent reviews" statistic. A well-reviewed game with negative recent reviews is a good indicator that something broke (three exact reason should be spelled out in the reviews).

The only issue is that such reviews are not "self-cleaning" once the issue gets fixed, and not every negative reviewer will remove or correct their review manually.

[+] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works -17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It would be true if gamers wouldn't be OBSESSED with bashing Ubisoft for any fucking reason they can find.

A Ubisoft guy says something about people not owning their games, it gets taken out of context and people are basically sending death threat to their office. Steam publish an update to make it clear you never owned your games, people jerk them harder.

In the end, both are filthy capitalist business, but one has 12k employees and get shit on all the time because black samurai in a fantasy world or women not fuckable enough, the other has around 80 employees, take 30% on every games they did nothing for, and every gamers kisses their asses. This is just another reason for low life gamers to hate on ubisoft, the fact that windows broke compatibility with the game makes it even more stupid. How the fuck could they have prevent this from happening exactly? They will publish a patch within 24 hours but the bad reviews will stick.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

Jesus, you're an unpleasant person.

Also, Valve isn't relevant towards this conversation. They're not the ones that made Ubisoft into a dumpster fire.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Reviews are more relevant to customers who are buying the game than people who own the game.

It's no different than people putting in a bad review because a product they got broke on them.

When it comes to digital PC games on changing hardware and OS what the game was at launch is not the same years later. Who's ever fault it is for the game being in a broken state doesn't change it is broken, so reviews being updated to reflect the change is helpful for people actually buying games.

There's been issues raised for a while. Fixes don't always happen that quickly if ever.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-11-24h2-update-break-ubisoft-games/d0917345-7f2a-4972-8d5b-99d2f9be1b28

https://www.techspot.com/news/105709-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ubisoft-games-fix.html

https://gameranx.com/updates/id/520097/article/assassins-creed-games-still-broken-due-to-windows-11-update/

24 hour fix was mentioned by you, but review bombs happening after issues having popped up all the way back in October in the article is indicative of current owners being fed up and now resorting to public pressure for fixes while also serving as a disclaimer to potential buyers who don't keep up with gaming news.