Diablo 4 players review bomb game on Metacritic after awful Season 1 patch reception

Fans are voicing their displeasure at the latest Diablo 4 patch by review bombing the game on Metacritic.

[Rynxie]

Review bombing does nothing in this case. I suggest sticking to stop playing the game and persuading others not to buy it or play it as well.

[Rude-ro]

Is that not what review bombing supports?
Telling other players of the state of the game?
Ie it is not the money they already have, it is to curve new purchases… in todays live service games, a lot of gamers wait to see what a season will bring.

[RpgSama]

After 10 million sold, what is the point, they should have waited

[Sonic1881]

This game is starting to be Diablo Immortal

[Palitera]

It “informs” other people’s purchase decisions.

[notachance]

Not true, I always check user reviews on metacritic to see what the general praise/complaint is about from other players.

[anast]

Causal gamers won't buy a game with a low score.

[Duke19]

lol @ review bombing. People are pathetic

[ChronoJoe]

These guys are super optimistic about people using metacritic user scores to make purchase decisions. No one is.

“People need to leave their feedback and reviews, where it hurts Blizzard’s pockets. Reddit is not the place, encourage everyone to go to Metacritic and make your voice heard. Reviews are used by consumers to inform their purchase decision, not Reddit.”

Yeah, no one is doing that. No one is filtering metacritic by user score. Even metacritic itself doesn't showcase those scores, because they don't mean anything. In large part, because of stuff like this. I'm not saying I agree with what Blizzard are doing or anything like that, but this type of action doesn't achieve anything at all really.

[neutralgamer1992]

You would be surprised. There is a reason IGN has like 15 plus million users. After a story like this IGN will most likely cover it meaning many casuals will see it

And many publishers still use MC and open critic when deciding the royalties be bonus so yes it makes a difference

[EvertonFC]

Unfortunately alot of people can't think for themselves or make own dicisions

[CobraKai]

Agreed. There are people who swear by metacritic or rotten tomatoes. Weak minded people who need to be told what to like or not like.

[enkiduxiv]

@CobraKai Nothing “weak” about reading a few reviews before spending time and money on something. Only a moron would pay a publisher blindly before even trying to figure out if the product was good or even functional.

[frostypants]

Oh please. So you don't consider reviews at all? You just buy the game? Get off your high horse. Who do you think you're fooling?

[notachance]

lol what? if people get to play the game for free like reviewers did then sure, think away.
In this case however, it's great to also see what the normal players who have to spend money first before playing have to say about the game.

[Cockney]

Perhaps they're making an informed decision based on popular critique, nah surely not, that would be crazy

[CobraKai]

@enkid
only a moron would trust the opinions of others. Especially with all these review bombers. I'd rather research the game to see if its gameplay is something I'm into. Then I'd buy the game. If I trusted the reviews for Cyberpunk or Jedi Survivor, I would never have given them a chance cuz they were considered "broken". I played em and loved em.

[shinoff2183]

Thats not true at all. I bet lots are using it. People use reviews from all over to confirm purchasin games. I don't understand why but ya know people

[ChronoJoe]

From my experience working as a game dev at major studios, they don't put much weight on metacritic user scores. They do use critic scores as internal benchmarking, but analysing player sentiment is much more holistic and complex, and it does involve reading on places like reddit (even if they do not post there). Today, a lot of it involves using AI to analyse data too, as they can pull player sentiment from thousands of posts on reddit without reading and coding them individually.

I don't know how many folks go onto metacritic to look at user scores either, but I would bet it's a tiny number of the potential consumerbase. Something like steam reviews matter a lot, but metacritic user scores are not the same, largely because they do not require verified proof of purchase.

[frostypants]

I use it, or at least consider it. Metacritic is the only place where you can tell if a producer of a game or movie really stepped in dog crap. People don't review bomb if someone didn't seriously screw up. Other sites sanitize the truth away to protect their rep with the producer of said crap.

[ChronoJoe]

People do review bomb all the time on the basis of political views and in most cases I don't believe those are any indication of the quality of the game. For instance TLOU2 was review bombed for having playable female characters and trans characters. Nonetheless, it sold over 10 million units in 2 years, on one platform.

[Bobertt]

I agree most regular gamers don't care about metacritic scores but these game publishers do so when they get review bombed it gets their attention.

[anast]

Nice out of touch statement...

[neutralgamer1992]

I really want to play this game but I just want all this nonsense to end and things to be ironed out. I will most likely start playing towards the end of the year

[EvertonFC]

I'm 20 hours in and I'm getting bored, it's a good game but just very samey already. ATM I feel like I could have just replayed D3 and saved my money tbh.

[JeffGUNZ]

What killed my desire to keep playing was how big the map was and coming to a realization I would lose everything every season to make a new character. The world is massive and to 100% that map takes time. Then you just lose it all. Just a bummer. Diablo 3 this was easier to take, but this one just hits different.

[OMGitzThatGuy]

Only negative is the nerfs and that is while making monsters 5 level behind and making other builds viable now or did people expect season 1 to make all the changes that Diablo 3 did in its 10+ years of updates?

[Christopher]

Why wouldn't you not start your next game in the series having learned from a decade of your past game? Are we supposed to be sympathetic that they're making the same mistakes all over again?

[OMGitzThatGuy]

Every game with stats goes through trial and error when the game goes out to millions, people seem to forget Diablo 3 even now still doesn’t that have the amount of endgame content that they think it has. It had 1 dlc and rifts, thats it and people still play it to this day and the seasons where just wipes with a few armor pieces, D4 season 1 is already gonna change more to the game than a D3 season ever did. D3 also launched with no rifts, while D4 launched with Nightmare dungeons.

[Christopher]

***Every game with stats goes through trial and error when the game goes out to millions, people seem to forget Diablo 3 even now still doesn’t that have the amount of endgame content that they think it has.***

This isn't about having content, it's the quality of it and their design choices that they have 10 years of experience working toward and had multiple betas with feedback on it.

[neutralgamer1992]

Why couldn’t they build from all the knowledge gained instead of starting from scratch and acting like they don’t know what they are doing and what gamers want. Seriously launching sequels with knowledge of what worked in the past games should be utilized

[EvertonFC]

Gamers are fannies alot of the time

[BrainSyphoned]

Game Pass quality mode engaged

[Stanjara]

Only people that defend this are the ones that spent $90 on their uber edition and now are defending their purchasing decision.
Nobody likes these nerfs... nobody.
Boycott and nerf their scores.

Why? Why would you defend this?
Stop playing and move on.

If the game gonna be good in 4 months... then play it in 4 months.

Absolut Blizzard garbage!

[Fonsecap]

I remember that all great reviews from outlets like ign and many YouTubers praising the game with 10 out of 10, and now no one praises the game anymore, and all those YouTube's never talked about the game anymore. All news titles from this game are "fans are frustrated", "fans are pissed", "fans are angry"...

[anast]

Nothing a battle-pass can't fix.

[Tankbusta40]

Remember this and DONT purchase their microtransactions!