Half-Life & Portal Writer Outlines Why Review Bombing Happens

Finally. A developer finally gets it.

Review bombing is terrible, but when you outright ignore the feedback from your consumers unless they make a big fuss then what do you expect? Developers that prioritize communication with their consumers (like CD PROJEKT RED) rarely face backlash like this.

No idea why industry veterans like Randy Pitchford can't seem to understand this and instead believe gamers are just being toxic for the sake of it.

Note: I'm not in support of review bombing. Sometimes it really is just people throwing a fit about an issue. An example of this is a game I loved (Detention) being review bombed on steam because of a political disagreement that had no bearing on the game. That being said, communication issues are a major factor in review bombing that many companies seem to be completely negligent of.

This is a fairly oldish post. He was wasting his time with authoritarian left nutcases who have invaded gaming, and then realized they were a waste of human-resources, talking about other, exciting things now.

Speaking of nut-cases.

https://twitter.com/alanzilberman/status/1113432267098079234

I still think there are complete morons who do it just for the shits-and-giggles, but that is a very solid point. Voting with our wallets takes time, and with Epic just throwing money around it wouldn't really help.

@uninspiredcup: Yup it's pretty old but I didn't see a thread around here about it so why not :P. Yeesh, I didn't think of Joker that way at all, this is why I take certain film critics with a grain of salt.

Wonder what gaben has him doing nowadays?

proabably got him making cs go skins, or dota 2 voice emotes for 20 bucks a pop

He left Valve years ago.

I heard he came back?

ah imagine that