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Hollow Knight: Silksong sinks to 'Mixed' Steam review status among Chinese gamers over its bafflingly bad translation, with Team Cherry promising to improve it (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (16 children)

This is one reason I've effectively stopped caring about steam review bombs. People review bomb over the stupidest shit and never change their review if the tiny issue is fixed

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  • [–] 86 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Buying a game because it claims it is available in your language and then getting served an awful, nonsensical translation is absolutely not a stupid reason to leave a bad review.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This will be fixed in a week or two, but 80% of the reviews will not change. That's just what review bombers do. Many buy the game to jump on the band wagon and refund the game. Review still counts.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah, that's a consequence of putting out a flawed product. Who cares?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In this one case, it kinda sucks for the devs since they presumably had no way of knowing they were releasing a flawed product. It was probably the translator that fucked them over.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Didn't steam just change the reviews to be aggregated per language? So Chinese or Russian review bombs won't effect the rating that you see any longer.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    A game having a bad translation in your language is a valid concern, and not "stupid shit".

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago

    Why can't they speak freedom language? 🇺🇲🍔💣🇺🇲 we're here to fuck up democracy and act like the center of the world, and we're out of democracy 🇺🇲

    Would be fun if Lemmy had a feature to block people / instances by country, now that I think of it

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