There is genuinely no proof that these are genuine stories and not just people pretending to have bought the game for the sake of shitting on blizzard and yes people can be that petty and immature. Like, remember the history major who had studied WW2 since he was five years old who felt that calling him uneducated was the LAST straw and how many people took that at face value because fuck the company in question for having a woman in their WW2 game trailer.
Are you implying that Cory in the House isn't a masterpiece?User scores lol
There is genuinely no proof that these are genuine stories and not just people pretending to have bought the game for the sake of shitting on blizzard and yes people can be that petty and immature. Like, remember the history major who had studied WW2 since he was five years old who felt that calling him uneducated was the LAST straw and how many people took that at face value because fuck the company in question for having a woman in their WW2 game trailer.
Voting in silence doesn't get much done. Spreading the word to get many votes together is important.
There is genuinely no proof that these are genuine stories and not just people pretending to have bought the game for the sake of shitting on blizzard and yes people can be that petty and immature. Like, remember the history major who had studied WW2 since he was five years old who felt that calling him uneducated was the LAST straw and how many people took that at face value because fuck the company in question for having a woman in their WW2 game trailer.
No reason people can't do both, but review bombing seems pointless to me.
She wasn't fighting for the nazis and yes prosthetics existed during WW2. And yes, diversity for diversity's sake is a positive thing and anyone who thinks otherwise can kindly fuck off because they subconsciously or overtly treat white skin as the default while everything outside of white has to justify their existence in media. There was NO valid justified reason for the BF outrage, it was just the gaming community being sexist as fuck, again. 🤷♂️
They never advertised the series as historically accurate. It was always a comicbook hollywood adaptation of war. With the graphics looking a realistic as possible and actual gun sound effects being used to make it more immersive. However, literally even as far back as the first battlefield total realism was not the goal, BF was always arcadey as fuck. If you can tolerate any of the gifs below, or even multiple guns not having the right attachments, ammo counts, etc. let alone ANY of the absolutely crazy shit that happens in any given BF match as a result of the gameplay sandbox intentionally being as arcadey as possible with surface value realism then you can tolerate a woman on the battlefield.
Yes it is. Because historical accuracy never came up when this shit happened, in fact, historical accuracy was never apart of the conversation specifically until they added women.
The principal of "i'm not a sexist BUT"
People like Yongyea literally have an entire career centered around gamer outrage, that does not legitimize the toxicity of user review bombing.
kind of as I understand you can't play the original from the client anymore it's just an updated version that has either no access or access to the upgraded visuals but the new version has new problems not present in the old version.
Overwrote the client, erasing two decades of custom content made by the fan community, the kind of stuff that led to Dota, it locked almost all options for gameplay and graphics behind "gotta buy ReForged to change these" prompts, and a huge amount more, including lies before release about the scope of changes they were implementing, and taking ownership over all future fan content.
Engaging with some of the more toxic behavior of the gaming community does more harm than it does good. Nothing about leaving a 0/10 on a user review along with angry comments, a ton of whom didn't even buy the game and made an account specifically to review bomb:
She wasn't fighting for the nazis and yes prosthetics existed during WW2. And yes, diversity for diversity's sake is a positive thing and anyone who thinks otherwise can kindly fuck off because they subconsciously or overtly treat white skin as the default while everything outside of white has to justify their existence in media. There was NO valid justified reason for the BF outrage, it was just the gaming community being sexist as fuck, again. 🤷♂️
They never advertised the series as historically accurate. It was always a comicbook hollywood adaptation of war. With the graphics looking a realistic as possible and actual gun sound effects being used to make it more immersive. However, literally even as far back as the first battlefield total realism was not the goal, BF was always arcadey as fuck. If you can tolerate any of the gifs below, or even multiple guns not having the right attachments, ammo counts, etc. let alone ANY of the absolutely crazy shit that happens in any given BF match as a result of the gameplay sandbox intentionally being as arcadey as possible with surface value realism then you can tolerate a woman on the battlefield.
Yes it is. Because historical accuracy never came up when this shit happened, in fact, historical accuracy was never apart of the conversation specifically until they added women.
The principal of "i'm not a sexist BUT"
People like Yongyea literally have an entire career centered around gamer outrage, that does not legitimize the toxicity of user review bombing.
Engaging with some of the more toxic behavior of the gaming community does more harm than it does good. Nothing about leaving a 0/10 on a user review along with angry comments, a ton of whom didn't even buy the game and made an account specifically to review bomb:
Like, I hate games like Agony and Hatred, that doesn't mean I left a 0/10 review score on metacritic.
Yes? In the same way you dont have to have a reason to put a straight white male in a game, you can do that for minorities as well.
So when I know of all the shit they pulled with this game, objectively worse content due to cut features and other nonsense, and then I give it a bad review, it doesn't count because I didn't buy the game? Get lost with this nonsense lol.
?? whats this issue? is female offensive now?
You hate games like Agony and Hatred for entirely different reasons than people disliking Reforged. Some of these folks had one of their favourite childhood games they still play to this day destroyed, and you go in here acting like leaving a 0 on metacritic is somehow "toxic", because they didn't buy the turd before giving the number. Guess what, most of the people giving this game shit already owned WC3 and just got forced to download the shittier version, unable to play the old one.Engaging with some of the more toxic behavior of the gaming community does more harm than it does good. Nothing about leaving a 0/10 on a user review along with angry comments, a ton of whom didn't even buy the game and made an account specifically to review bomb:
Like, I hate games like Agony and Hatred, that doesn't mean I left a 0/10 review score on metacritic.
When you use it in place of when you could as well have said woman then you sound like an incel. "Female developer" isn't the same as "she is a female"
Because it means that people are included. PoC exist in real life, thus, PoC can exist in media without some explicit lore reason to make people more comfortable with the idea of PoC.
Why do you talk like this?
Which they also did do:
It matched just as much as all the weapons that soldiers during the war didn't actually carry and all the vehicles that weren't actually used. But please tell me more about "muh historical accuracy." 👀
How about you self reflect on why you think that white male is the default and that everything else is either filling in checkbox and/or must have some reason to exist. Or that if people want diversity then the only option is tabletop RPGs and not, modern video games.
There is nothing wrong about that statement. There IS a common perception that no women participated in WW2, there were women who fought and participated in the war. And yes, the "history buffs from UCLA" were showing their asses.
You literally just described review bombing. Which starts and ends at "here's my review saying it sucks, and my arbitrary score, my work here is done." At least from the reasonable people who don't say....send the development team death threats.
Like, the review you posted literally said why they are rating it 0 - because Blizzard deleted classic WC3 because of this remaster. That's a totally legit reason to get upset and rate this game 0.Engaging with some of the more toxic behavior of the gaming community does more harm than it does good. Nothing about leaving a 0/10 on a user review along with angry comments, a ton of whom didn't even buy the game and made an account specifically to review bomb:
Like, I hate games like Agony and Hatred, that doesn't mean I left a 0/10 review score on metacritic.
if you want "decent" representation, why do you tolerate games just shoehorning in characters mainly because of their skin color? Why not support creators of games that make these characters with more complexity?
I absolutely understand the reasons people are angry, I'm not defending the game at all, or even Blizzard. I just don't agree that review bombing is an effective way of sending a message. Which is what the article is about, about review bombing in and of itself.
Like I said, a very valid reason to be angry.
The numbers make sense when everyone that has ever owned Warcraft 3 is affected by this. The people that didnt purchase Reforged are also affected afaik.
Why do you anything but white males to be shoehorning?
Should PoC and women characters in multiple player matches have an animation where they stop everything they're doing to tell the audience why they exist in this particular scenario?
Ok, so why call out a review bomber who was angry about their game being ruined? Like, what other outlet do people have? If this was just a bad remaster then yea, gamer outrage, everyone chill, etc. In this case though, everyone who owned classic WC3 and had their game deleted has every right to be mad.
What other way is there when even not buying the game, a.k.a voting with your wallet, doesn't stop them from fucking up your already made purchase? Complaining about things on twitter is "toxic" or "harassing game devs", making threads on Reddit is too appearantly, and now leaving 0s on Metacritic is "toxic" as well.
We can have both, when you see a white male character, whether it is a good character or not, do you question why it was chose as that? no, you dont. Why does it have to be different for PoC or non-straight etc
