Brilliant. It's getting negative review-bombed again. For developers, things like Steam reviews are a metric by which employers and investors measure the quality of our previous games. Negative review-bombs can thereby have a negative impact on us, the developers, and our ability to earn a living. - ThreadSky

dreofthedead.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Brilliant. It's getting negative review-bombed again.
For developers, things like Steam reviews are a metric by which employers and investors measure the quality of our previous games.

Negative review-bombs can thereby have a negative impact on us, the developers, and our ability to earn a living.

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Roll7's skating games OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome return to Steam www.eurogamer.net/roll7s-skati...

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svenspron.bsky.social•8 days ago

Geez😵‍💫 what's the reason, just anti-woke whinging again?

dreofthedead.bsky.social•8 days ago

folks mad because R7 got shut down. but negative reviews aren't gonna change that. it just makes it look like we made a crap game.

svenspron.bsky.social•8 days ago

Woof, the fact that it's sort of well-meaning somehow makes it suck even worse 😭
I wish you much strength and all the best for the future despite it all 🙏

svenspron.bsky.social•8 days ago

Also, I really gotta get around to trying Rollerdrome, cuz Olli Olli 2 was fucking wonderful

derfeef.bsky.social•8 days ago

Their reasoning is just wild... like... "we make the game seem really bad because the original creators are not getting any money off of future buys" ...

alexashpool.bsky.social•8 days ago

You just can't trust gamers to review a game. They don't even know that games are political yet.

irrelevantseal.bsky.social•8 days ago

Rollerdrome is the best of its class. Theres nothing like it, and Olli Olli world was incredibly smooth, and a huge overhaul of the older ones.

I dont have the latter on steam, but i will leave a positive rollerdrome review, as much as it helps

dreofthedead.bsky.social•8 days ago

Thank you The Capri Sun Experience 😁🙏

exserv.bsky.social•8 days ago

Oh that's such a great news ! We published a podcast about Rollerdrome a few weeks backs and we didn't know if / when the game would come back.

Must be bittersweet for all of you but the game will always be something special :)

invisiblelad7.bsky.social•7 days ago

Review bombing is a bad tactic that doesn't have the impact people who do it think it does. It just means people can't trust reviews to mean what they're meant to.

dreofthedead.bsky.social•8 days ago

I just wanna be able to be proud of the game we made and be able to say it's got an 81% metacritic, it got a Eurogamer Essential, 94% in PC Gamer, it won a BAFTA,etc

...without having to worry about explaining why the Steam rating is so bad 🙏

grumpymonoceros.bsky.social•8 days ago

Steam ratings really show the limits of user reviews as a concept. They're useful but really shouldn't be the singular metric people use to evaluate a game.

Unfortunately, from the investor PoV, a lot more people use the Steam review aggregate than anything else when deciding whether to buy.

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