https://store.steampowered.com/app/782330/DOOM_Eternal/#app_reviews_hash

Seems to be the only Bethesda game that Steam flagged for the review bomb.

EDIT: Check the comments for the tweet that sparked the stupid outrage. A screenshot from the newest Indiana Jones game.

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[–] 264 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Wait till they find out that in Wolfenstein you get to kill tons of Charlie Kirk's in fun ways and celebrate each one of them with achievements and rewards ❤️

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  • [–] [S] 90 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

    Kinda funny that Wolfenstein games didn't receive as many of these reviews as Doom Eternal. There's only 10 or so.

    From Doom Eternal:

    Charlie Kirk was not a fascist. Charlie Kirk was a father, a wonderful husband, and someone who wanted the best for everyone! When you want to get rid of someone, you accuse them of being a fascist! No one has betrayed this society more than you have!

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

    Wanted the best for everyone but Paul Pelosi, women, minorities…

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    One of those is not like the others. I have as much sympathy for the billionaire who made bank doing insider trading while creating the conditions for fascism to fester getting beaten with a hammer by a fascist as the fascist who got a new breathing hole while trying to blame school shootings on trans people and black people.

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

    I always wonder what they think 'fascist' means that 'good husband, father' would negate that.

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

    I bet he loved dogs too. Could a fascist love dogs?? I don't think so.

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  • [–] 91 points 1 year ago

    There are reasons to hate Bethesda but this isn't one of them

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "I do not support death cults" must be the epitome of clueless irony.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago

    Somewhere in hell doom slayer is punching the inside of Charlie Kirk's skull

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Do these fuckers not realize doomguy canonically killed nazies too?

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

    Why? Is there a Charlie Kirk mod where you get to press X to give him the finger while he's in the Demon Realm for his hateful spewing?

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

    "No one deserved what you suffered"... well I have some good news for you, he didn't suffer a bit. He was unconscious and then dead before anyone could get to him

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

    How dare you report on the truth. Im banning you from being a late night host.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    anybody know what the tweet said?

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

    It was a clip from the upcoming DLC for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Indy sees a cat, and says “You don’t care much about these Fascists, do you?”

    Of course insane people assumed this was about Charlie Kirk.

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  • [–] [S] 79 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I think it's this one. As others said, the picture is Indy talking to the cat, saying "You don't care much about these Fascists, do you?" - https://www.thegamer.com/bethesda-indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-charlie-kirk-tweet-deleted/

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    hey quarterpounder can you tell us when you take a break from pissing in the basement while your wife is fucking someone else outside, why would you assume this is about charlie kirk?

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

    well tbf bethesda did fuck up by deleting it therefore implying they actually have a point even though they definitely dont

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

    yea but that's also PR 101, something causing bad PR? delete it. It would have been worse leaving it up as well because that shows a "we know that people can see a potential connection and we don't care and by not deleting it we agree with the connection"

    Bethesda was in a Lose Lose here because regardless of their action, the crowd that was pissed about this would have been pissed, because in their eyes the connection is already solid.

    Damned if you do, Damned if you don't

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

    It's pr 101 because any advanced class would tell you to keep it up anyway. If they take it down the validate the backlash. If they keep it up they can either undermine the backlash or ride it higher if there are less nazis than there are normal people. There is also a problem with taking it down: the nazis are kinda correct that Bethesda is anti nazi, Indiana Jones and Wolfenstein? Yeah, they demonstrably have no love for their ilk and cowering away from that won't help them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I don't agree that any advance class would contradict the beginner class. Being said, yea they could keep it up, they would be riding it right into the open flames, but they could. Them taking it down takes it off radar, the source material is no longer there, and any potential misunderstanding while will temporarily take heat for the people saying "yea see it was taken down obviously that's the meaning", but then what? there's no source material. Doubling down on your statement will create /more/ material for the targeting group, so not only is the original source available, now the double down "this is what we meant by this" will be available, which will do everything /but/ calm the flames down because those groups are definitely not going to change their mind from a corporate account saying "This is not what we mean't".

    You can't win with PR like this, your best option is to not play, and in this case it's just removing the content regardless of intent.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Once the content has been posted, you've already played. Not playing is no longer an option.

    Once you remove it, you also anger the people who agreed with it, so now you've pissed off both sides.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Steam will flag this as a point of off topic reviews, and by default will be filtered out of affecting the review score that users see.

    Personally, I like to look at these points of off topic reviews to see if a company has done some stupid shit that I want to avoid them for (like the recent fiasco with gearbox and the mandatory spyware, or everything ea has ever done ever). Every once in a while though, I get to laugh that fascists are mad.

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

    I don't even know which setting I am using for this

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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I hope those people get a ban from reviewing games or something. I know it's difficult for some people to imagine, but most of us just want to know about the damn game.

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

    They won't get banned but Steam will likely mark this wave as "Off-topic review activity". When this happens you can toggle visibility of these reviews.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I reported some of those as "political argument that is unrelated to the game, developer or publisher", I don't think anything will happen tho

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    It doesn't happen immediately but it does happen.

    A few years ago, there was a wave of dumbfucks who would visit cosy games and spam "Woke" and "DEI" over and over in the forums/reviews. I don't even see it anymore.

    Going to bet the edge lords got Shadow banned or something.

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

    Sadly, steam heavily disagrees with this statement. They would rather have full opinions allowed regardless, and then delist them when reported as offtopic so they still appear, but don't show in the score.

    I disagree with that mentality as well, since I'm sick of seeing games have shit reviews, then look at them and its because of something that the parent company did instead of it being about the game itself.

    They do the same shit with steam discussions. I heavily think they should community ban people reported for using the clown reaction award with the intent to be rude or mean to the person they are awarding it to, and the people doing blatent circlejerk/rage baiting in the communities, but until it becomes a problem that risks them getting investigated again like before, they won't.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The context surrounding a game is important, though. these are just Nazis and should have their opinion disregarded, but all of Nintendo's slop should be hated purely for the context of Nintendo being evil. any developer than stands for good things should also get a boost in positive reviews too (although that doesn't happen enough, maybe because the only ones i can think of off hand are just good regardless?).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    As much as I like knowing about companies that I buy from, if I'm on a product page, looking at a product review, I'm expecting the product review, not the moral compass of the company. If I wanted to see the controversies the company is involved in, I would search the company online.

    If the controversy involves the game sure, but if the only association to the game is that the publisher or dev made it, then I really don't want it in the reviews, that's not what I'm looking for.

    Examples of what should be in a product review:

    • Developer controversies that effect gameplay (like the Ark Survival controversy that shut down servers and failed to deliver on promises)
    • Gameplay complaints/reviews
    • Potential software or regional restrictions such as DRM or region locks(steam disagrees with this sadly cause they'll mark it offtopic)
    • If the developer is a scam artist/illegitimate

    Examples of what shouldn't be in a product review:

    • Backlash from a social media posting
    • Politics
    • Ideologies
    • Memes/Jokes (imo these are fine if its gameplay related like the skyrim arrow to the knee reviews, but usually they aren't)
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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Why not The Dark Ages? It’s a downgrade compared to Eternal.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Gmers being Gmer

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