This April, the domestic game market has been quite unstable – to be precise, the Steam review area of several domestic games has been quite unstable.
First of all, after "The Way of Heroes" finally updated the content for the third year on April Fool's Day, it immediately triggered a large number of players' condemnation due to various obvious problems such as the castration of the plot line and the unreasonable design of the battle. In the process of slow game development, Heluo Studio was still eating in the bowl, looking at the pot, and engaged in the multi-opening operation of developing other games at the same time, and under the premise that the content of the third year of "The Way of Heroes" was not satisfactory, it also became the object of criticism by players.
Strictly speaking, there is no direct evidence that making multiple games at the same time will necessarily have a negative impact on the quality of the finished product. And "multi-open" itself, it seems that it is not related to the content of the game.
Then there is the "Retirement Simulator" because of the lack of negative feedback from some of the game's content received a small number of "female players", and after some drastic modifications, the producer also announced the news that "female protagonists will be added in the future".
But it is clear that the producers did not grasp the principle of "too much to be too late", so easily bowed to the "female players", and did not care about the actions of the male player group, almost immediately caused their dissatisfaction. Soon, some people even began to recruit "brave men" who launched a refund bad review action against "Retirement Simulator" with the "heavy reward" of Roll a vanilla flavored Coke. In line with the idea of "treating others the way they are", male players began to do everything possible in the game to find content that was detrimental to the image of the "male group" - from the pension handed over to his wife to the personality of the male character in the game, which became a weapon to fight back.
As a result, the evaluation area that was supposed to evaluate the game seemed to have become a ring for the two sides to compete in the "fist" overnight. And many players who are bored with "punching", in the face of this inexplicable huge traffic, and some of the two parties who entered the "sideline break" link after a contest seem to have come to a different conclusion from different perspectives: the producer's response to the modification is so fast, but it is not done before the launch, which must be deliberately creating a topic of heat.
At this point, the comment area of "Retirement Simulator" has almost been attacked by the same "bad reviews", and in this "red tide", only a small part of the real attention to the game content itself is accounted for.
The last thing that followed was the crazy bad review wave triggered by the "Creative Workshop" incident of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" under the continuous fermentation.
This wave of bad reviews not only created the history of domestic games, but also threatened the position of the overlord of the Steam bad review list of "Three Kingdoms Kill". Therefore, in order to keep the last "glory", many "Three Kingdoms Killing" players poured into the evaluation area of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" and brushed up on praise.
Seeing this scene, in line with the principle of "coming and going without being rude", many "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" players have also come to the evaluation area of "Three Kingdoms Killing" to brush up on praise, and use practical actions to help "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" "New King Ascend to the Throne".
Under such a comical and absurd scene, the "praise" has completely lost its positive meaning as an evaluation itself, but has been reduced to a pure tool for achieving the symbolic event of "climbing to the top of the bad review list". We don't know whether the players who joined this "mutual praise" are communicating their anger, criticism and protest in another way, or whether it is not too much to just have fun, and what we can see is that only in the evaluation area of the two games, such a "review" that is very different from the traditional perception of the fact that the "review" is increasing.
So in your opinion, is the Steam review generated by the influence of off-site factors an abuse of the evaluation system?