• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    Microsoft furiously writing down the lesson: shut… studios down… to… boost… reviews. Got it! Thanks!

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    The massive influx of new ratings could also simply be linked to the fact that the game is included in this month’s humble choice, adding a ton of new players

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      Literally the reason I downloaded and played the game yesterday.

      Really loving it, makes my 400 hours in osu somewhat worth it.

      Also run’s beautifully on linux.

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    I’m not sure it qualifies as “reverse review bombing” if the recent review +/- percentage matches the all-time percentage. There’s just more reviews because of the shutdown, the ratio of positive vs negative hasn’t meaningfully changed (97% positive overall, 97% positive recently).

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      6 months ago

      Does review bombing have to be negative? For me it was always a big pile of reviews in a short time, like dropping a bomb, but without inherent rating.

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    Thor at Pirate Software played it and really liked it, probably part of that.