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Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 1 week ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Just funny and dumb.

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[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

N stiwtosotsotskgsgms

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 139 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Still has 96% recent and 96% overall positive reviews and an "overwhelmingly positive" overall rating.

I don't think they're making much of a dent. The article is pretty unclear though on why Chinese gamers are mad, other than that there was a possible "dodgy translation."

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 125 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I mean, it's a blip but they were trying.

The gist of it seems to be a few Chinese gamers are upset that Black Myth: Wukong didn't win game of the year and combined with a bad translation made it seem like Sven, who was presenting, instead of his anti-greed speech was translated into basically saying that he knew who was going to win, like he knew beforehand, and game sales aren't important, and some took that ask he was mocking Black Myth for not winning.

Just language barriers and general gamer stupidity all around.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 108 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just language barriers and general gamer stupidity all around.

I'm pretty sure nationalistic pride is also a factor. Wukong is not just a game they like, it's their game.

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago (38 children)

But, also, why Astro Bot?

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

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[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chinese gamers upset their total mid jingly keys action game didn't win?
Imagine my shock

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't valve release algorithms to stop review bombing? Just delete them

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[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

~500 negative reviews, c'mon, what a piece of trash article.

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[–] icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

China antis are the most insecure out there. It’s always something stupid

[+] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world -18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Only ~500 negative reviews.. What a nothingburger article lol.

I mean, the Chinese players aren't totally wrong, support from sales IS an important metric. Swen definitely should have worded that better. But is that worth a negative review, IDK. This seems to line up with Chinese culture as a whole though, which is usually polar opposite to the West.

TheGamer... I can't say the majority of articles I have personally seen from this site haven't been poor quality bait articles like this one, so I am going to put this one in the pile with Kotaku, IGN, and the others. The pile of "Rarely makes a decent article but most of the time is easily ignored."

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, the Chinese players aren’t totally wrong, support from sales IS an important metric. Swen definitely should have worded that better. But is that worth a negative review, IDK. This seems to line up with Chinese culture as a whole though, which is usually polar opposite to the West.

rampant capitalism over workers' desires lines up with Chinese culture?

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

No, I meant that them leaving negative reviews because of what was said is a pretty typically Chinese thing to do. Genshin Impact has been plagued by this for pretty much its entire existence. If you ask anyone, the Chinese playerbase is viewed as incredibly toxic because of this.

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