What's up with all the bad faith Steam reviews?
When I went to purchase the game last night, I noticed that it was marked "very positive" and found that a little strange, since I've literally heard nothing bad about the game from anybody. So I filtered reviews to show only negative, to see what people are complaining about...
There's currently about 1600 negative reviews, and I didn't read every single one but I skimmed through a few hundred of them and 90% of the ones I skimmed all seem to be following a script. The wording is different in each one, but they're all talking about the TOS/EULA and giving these ridiculously long bullet point lists of everything that's supposedly "the worst in the gaming industry" blah blah blah
Except, pretty much every item they're complaining about are industry standard? And a lot of them have been the standard for 15+ years??? Like these people are basically foaming at the mouth "OMG you don't get to own the game, you just own a license, this is LITERALLY oppression, Unknown Worlds is worse than Hitler OMG boycott the game" name a single AAA game in your Steam library that doesn't do the same thing? Hell, most indie games will also say it
Not gonna waste my (or your) time listing and refuting each point, we're all perfectly capable of looking it up ourselves, but just curious if anybody knows what's going on. Is it a coordinated attack? A lot of the reviews did show played time so I don't think it's a bot attack, but most of them show VERY short playtime, usually 0.2 hours, so they are probably buying and refunding in order to appear valid