Well the question is why would the difficulty be such a strong point in China but outside it isn’t? The translation thing makes more sense in my opinion. Why would Chinese players be worse than non Chinese ones? The difficulty of Silksong was criticised outside of China as well, but it didn’t lead to such low scores
Thanks again!
And curse you social media! I want my forums back!
And yeah, while it’s negative for the developers, I can understand that people use the options they have seen to work.
Ah okay, thanks for explaining the background. Now I can understand it better.
Is it not possible to use the discussion forums on steam for that translation request?
Thanks for that compilation, it’s always interesting to read about different cultures.
my reasons for positive review:
My reasons for negative review:
In general I give most things the benefit of the doubt and can enjoy certain positive parts in a mostly bad game. so my reviews are mostly positive, as I curate already strongly what I buy.
While I can understand why / how most of the reasons you talked about came around, I’m a bit baffled about the missing chinese localisation. Does that mean a significant number of chinese players buy a game simply to give it a negative review on steam? In the steam store it’s shown what languages are supported. So if you can’t speak any of those languages, why would you buy it?
If the localisation is bad, then I can understand buying it and giving it a negative review due to feeling scammed.
And I can give you an explanation for the number 1 negative reason: Poland, Czech republic and Turkey are all regionally close(ish for Turkey) to each other and you have it in your mind as European. Similar to probably Chinese having Korean in their mind, which most Europeans likely don’t think about.
Maybe the translation company they asked had those languages and so they ordered it. And yeah, I can understand the developer. If I never intended to support a language due to unfamiliarity and then those language speakers are giving me negative reviews… feels unfair.
Entitlement is the way I would describe it. Again, I can unterstand people wanting to play something and I can unterstand feeling left out for your language not being supported. But then buying the game and giving it negative reviews for that? Just don’t buy it or make community translations like so many others do.
While it was still an okay end for me, your points are also what I didn’t like about it.
While I appreciate the internal look into the psyche of why somebody can become such an asshole, he was getting off too lightly in my opinion. His opening up to ribbit was well acted, I liked the portrayal of that.
This is a really mean thing to say out of the blue. You’ve assumed malintent when there wasn’t any.
This you?
If you know any teenagers/young adults who would enjoy “baby’s first psychological horror” this is a good recommend.
Calling teenagers babies is condescending. Could have just left that word out and write “first psychological horror” or “introduction to psychological horror”.
And regarding why say something: because they want you to learn about your behaviour and be able to learn and grow from it. So they care and think that you can improve instead of being a lost cause, where you just down vote and move on.
Yep, I send an email to support asking about it and they said they can’t tell me more than the second apology and quoted it.
Depends on your definition of “make good”.
After the first disastrous comment on reddit they issued a second one on Twitter which sounded like the first one should have in the first place.
But that’s all and they didn’t address it inside the newsletter, so for me it’s empty words without really addressing the deeper issue of how much somebody in GOG fucked up.
Yeah, I plan to do the same.
It’s interesting to see how much content there already is in the demo. Could already be its own full game.
Yep. And that is the difference between “not doing wrong” and “doing right”. Because in the latter’s case, you don’t die. Or at least… Its complicated
Nethack, a very deep and actively obtous game. If you want to figure it out yourself, its complexity is nearly on a level with dwarf fortress.
Outer Wilds does not fit 100 % your description, as it doesnt hate the player. But it is a game all about exploration and figuring stuff out yourself. And if you do things wrong, you die.
Yep, was pretty alright as coop game.
But I seriously wished they finally let Amadeus, Pontius and Zora retire and let new heroes go. It is getting ridiculous to unlock the same stuff for the 6th time.
And now after watching the trailer: FINALLY. Now let’s just hope they manage to do the transition in a good way. In contrast to the 3D transition…
Yes, but they use not a small amount of psychological tricks to make you play it like a job.
Thanks for checking the math, that is indeed an ambitious goal to reach.
Subnautica 1 and Below Zero together sold over 18 million copies, so reaching over 14 million with only one installment is doable with the bonus of being well known now, but still very ambitious.
And just to admit: yeah I also think the CEO did an overly stupid thing with that amount of money as bonus. But he also uses ChatGPT as legal advisor, so him being stupid is something we already knew.
I mean, you could see it as an investment? You know, by motivating their workers to create a very good product that then sells very well later when they are out of early access? Like a theoretical normal company should do?
From the articles I read: the three main developers didn’t deny that fact but said, they will give parts of their money to the others. And apparently they did do that for the initial money they got for selling the company to Krafton in the first place, so at least once they followed their word.
Yes, but the game was payrolled by Epic and wouldn’t even exist without them. Its different from those other instances where they threw money at a game at the end and bought the exclusivity.
how he inadvertently tried to exclude a family member when she started playing the game better than him.
Yep, that is a big part of the reason. There was a study where they showed: the top players weren’t as misogynistic as the bottom players when a woman played with them. So the conclusion is that to a lot of people they are really fragile and lash out because they aren’t as good as they like to be and fear losing ‘status’ if women would join our hobby.
Sadly I can’t find the study at the moment.
Please continue putting better known games from time to time, so that everyone can have a Aha moment. The obscure games are awesome as well, but I haven’t known a single one of them XD