This happens mainly for two reasons:
- Dev pushed a shitty update/change and people are complaining
- An “influencer” discovered something “bad” (generally meaning woke) about the game and it’s asking to review bomb it.
And it’s easy to see which by looking through the recent reviews
well something happened recently that was the reason that peeps were dissatisfied enough to leave a negative review… oooor a review bomb.
sweet, it seems that I have a downvote-fan now.
It’s pretty common with early access that haven’t had updates in a long time, or they “completed” the game with lots of missing or rough content.
I feel like the only way to actually enjoy video games anymore is to not pay attention to reviews or read about video games.
Applies to movies and TV shows as well.
Borderlands games ?
Name and shame?
This isn’t a name and shame situation. You don’t know that the game devs did anything wrong, so “naming and shaming” them would only exacerbate their problem if the negative reviews are unwarranted.
But it would be interesting to see what they complain about.
Games should be 100% complete and finished when released. That would solve this and also games that released nearly unplayable, but years later have improved (but how much?). You want a good review score? Give the devs enough time and resources to release it when it’s ready, not when you want to hit an important release window. You get one chance.
Obvious exceptions would be major game-breaking bugs that somehow weren’t found in time and are then patched. But other than that, games should be done when released, and reviewed at that time. You want to add content and tinker with it years after? It’s called an expansion (or DLC), and it’s reviewed separately.
