_noblesse_oblige_ wrote: ↑September 26th, 2018, 6:15 pm
eisberg wrote: ↑September 26th, 2018, 5:55 pm
Plenty of attacks against those who like the game have come from those who don't like the game, so attacks are happening from both sides.
Haven't seen many from my side of the fence. But, feel free to call them out if you do see them. Doesn't change anything about me wondering about the motivations of those who love the game who are making the attacks.
eisberg wrote: ↑September 26th, 2018, 5:55 pm
Also, looking over the Steam reviews, there are not that many reviews in relation to those who expected something closer to the 1980s games and the ones that do exists vast majority of them are from people who didn't buy it from Steam which means their review is not even being used for the percentage on Steam since the percentage only represents people who bought the game from Steam (rather than getting a key from somewhere else and activating it on Steam).
Not sure what argument you are trying to make here. If you are saying that a lot of people got their Steam keys from CrowdOx or Xsolla and that their reviews are not being counted as part of the percentage, then I'm not sure what relevance I'm supposed to draw from that. Doesn't that still mean that, of those who purchased on Steam directly, there are still 48% who hold a negative view? (Is it your claim that those who got their Steam keys from elsewhere are not properly represented by the statistically significant sample of those who did get their keys on Steam?)
eisberg wrote: ↑September 26th, 2018, 5:55 pm
I suspect that once the technical issues are fixed, that we'll see it go up to the 70s.
I'm not much given to prognostication, so I have no idea about the longer term trend. But, if people are on the fence about whether to try the game now, it is probably not going to help them choose to try it later when they see the large pile of negative views, even if there are some folks saying "hey, the game is totally patched now - it is a joy to play, you should try it out". Given the rapid churn of titles in this industry, Barrows Deep will most likely be mostly forgotten under a pile of newer, better games before it is fully patched.
I have been reporting the attacks on Steam, and I have gotten several messages thanking me for the report and it has been dealt with. The attacking messages were sometimes deleted, a few people have been banned with all their messages deleted on the whole forum, while some remain but the developers got on to say to stop with the attacks.
I was giving context to the 52% score shown on Steam. Showing that the score really is not being driven by nostalgia of the original series, but other things which for the most part is technical reasons, and then the lack of save anywhere and no respec being in second place, and then graphics being in third. Which is why I said, with patching up technical stuff I can see it reaching the 70%.
There really is not that many good games that are released each year, so it is highly doubtful that this game will be forgotten, cause what we have here really is a great game but with technical problems. The height of a sales period for PC games now days go on for like 3 months or more, so getting the technical stuff fixed as soon as possible can still very much still give them the sales they need.
it is still way to early to be calling out Doom and gloom for this game.