Saw Sonic Racing: Crossworlds was on sale, downloaded the demo to check it out, went into the settings and the game is capped at 60 fps. Was honestly shocked. Don't really expect to see that in new games any more, even from Japanese devs.
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Dio Larmguy
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what if i got one of those talking mario flowers and i put it on my desk so you can hear it yapping randomly during stream
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@UsVyFiAb9206410 Yeah LOL it is like that every time it's funny. Most of the Chinese reviews with a reason given right now are 3. but 90% of them are just a torrent of vulgar insults. You can only assume they are complaining for the same reason but you also can't really be sure
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@DioLarmguy When the game gets chinese review bombed it's one of 3 things.
1. Bad translation
2. "Political" upset
3. "Game too hard pls nerf"
But they never actually say what the issue actually is in the reviews they just string together as many insults as they can think of.
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"So how does Slay the Spire II currently have a 'Mixed' rating on Steam?"
What he typed: an essay about how the system is fundamentally untrustworthy
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Wesley ✨@wesleytypes
> sell 3 million copies in the first week > reach a player peak of over 500,000 > receive universal praise on release So how does Slay the Spire II currently have a "Mixed" rating on Steam? Because Steam user reviews are not really reviews in the traditional sense. Instead, they're used as a bargaining chip to communicate real time grievances with game updates, bugs, and developer choices at the expense of a game's actual overall quality and reputation. This is one of the many reasons why I don't trust user reviews and scores.
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Used this feature for the first time because some people were carrying on an unrelated argument in my replies. It applied it to *every reply* to my own tweet instead of the specific tweet I selected it on. How useless lol.
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@BeetStroganoff I've been told that this really means he's dissatisfied with the quality of the game's translation. We should listen to him and apologize.
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@owencmyk Do you have a link to info about the content creator who instigated the brigade? I wasn't aware of that element to it, I wonder if Steam will mark it as a review bomb and remove the reviews from the score like they do sometimes.
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@DioLarmguy Basically they updated the game to remove certain easy infinite loops in the test version of the game, and apparently a Chinese content creator started a brigade to try and review bomb the game over it to cause as much damage as they could
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@ParipariPanini It seems like it would be a bit different to have to convince a publisher "this is just a very vocal segment that does not use the review system like you think they would, you have to pretty much ignore it"
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@ParipariPanini I was actually quite curious about how this sort of thing is received on the developer/publisher side. For users it's very easy to filter out and ignore, the only info you're looking for is "Will I enjoy this game?"
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Having helped publish three other games on Steam now this has been my experience as well. Chinese customers are brutal. It makes me wonder if I should release my own games in that language at all.
Dio Larmguy@DioLarmguy
"So how does Slay the Spire II currently have a 'Mixed' rating on Steam?" What he typed: an essay about how the system is fundamentally untrustworthy The actual answer:
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@bie_bugyellow It's pretty unfortunate because most other users treat a negative review as a last resort to be used only when they've lost confidence in the developers. Chinese gamers seem to use them for every little thing.
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@DioLarmguy 中国区的评价普遍较低的重要原因就是，大部份steam游戏并没有为中国玩家专门设立一个社区或反馈渠道，当然也有一部分原因是大部份中国玩家懒得去找，认为游戏是在steam买的，在steam里反馈游戏里遇到的问题，并加个差评好让开发者能够看见
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@raphael_merino @Denien82 No I just went and actually looked at the Chinese reviews and they're almost all complaining about difficulty specifically (when they're being specific anyways and not just saying "the game is shit your mom dead")
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@DioLarmguy @Denien82 Majority Negative means it's a systematic problem.
Not "Game is hard".
Most likely the Translation in Mandarin is horrible, the game has issues in the Chinese Version(which is different) .
But you trying to be racist here for some reason rather than logical.
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The effect of this tweet that I'm personally most happy about is that there are hilarious Chinese insults in my replies. Love wins.
Dio Larmguy@DioLarmguy
"So how does Slay the Spire II currently have a 'Mixed' rating on Steam?" What he typed: an essay about how the system is fundamentally untrustworthy The actual answer:
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@ijwaks @C0NORMILES @Denien82 I don't think that guy's dead mother will be able to patch the game from the afterlife. She probably wasn't even a game dev in the first place.
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@theEskaton Yeah I think they handle it about as well as they can with minimal interference. Deleting reviews is a can of worms you don't wanna open, so even in the case of blatant review bombs they just remove them from the score calculation rather than delete them entirely.
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@DioLarmguy Steam is trying to do something about it. Currently, also ratings for a given language is displayed on the main page if there are at least 200 reviews. Mine shows overwhelmingly positive on the first place.
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@BirdAccount1492 The Chinese kind of just have the numbers so that even relatively few of them getting upset can tip the scales so heavily without particularly good organization being necessary. But, we probably could equal it with good organization.
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Imagine if Western Gamers could organize half as effectively as Chinese do over subtitles. We could run out these transvestites and communist pushing their agendas in our video games.
Dio Larmguy@DioLarmguy
"So how does Slay the Spire II currently have a 'Mixed' rating on Steam?" What he typed: an essay about how the system is fundamentally untrustworthy The actual answer:
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@PetterSaha Yeah lol they do this to every game more or less
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@DioLarmguy Lmao, is game too hard for them so they complain because of their skill issue?
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@Aderondak @ItashaRyS @Shadow_ofaDoubt Their wording implies that it should have defaulted to language-specific scores when they added them. Anyways, you should be able to change it in Account details -> Store preferences
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@ItashaRyS @Shadow_ofaDoubt @DioLarmguy This is what I see when browsing on my Steam account. I haven't touched anything so I don't know why it does that, but I actually passed on it this week because I thought it got broken.
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@BallasOrokin Hello Kazakh Ballas from Warframe, it's an honor to meet you
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@JJJJJJAKY You are a most interesting specimen, "Jack Davidson" x.com/JJJJJJAKY/stat…
Jack Davidson@JJJJJJAKY
在b站连续听了几周AI音乐后我不得不感叹，原来中文歌曲也可以这么好听
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