I know I've ranted many a time about steam before but with the absolute review bombing I'm seeing happening to most studios across the board it's very curious how these games that clearly no one damn likes keep bumping their way up to the top sellers list. I check out the top sellers list quite often just to see what's trending in the industry because it's usually a decent benchmark.
The fact that the positive reviews are always gibberish on these games as well make me deeply suspicious. Is it really the normies being normies? Or are even they sick of the state of the games industry constantly releasing broken game titles and is there some major shenanigans going on? I bring up the steam reviews so often because even in the comments pages people think they're bots and such. I mean don't get me wrong, normies are really really dumb, but I think even they'd be pissed off after awhile if they kept on pre-ordering broken products. I'm thinking of games like Pharaoh Total War which no one asked for somehow getting to the top sellers list.
If any indie developer did this they'd be called on it and wiped out and by the way I know that devs fuck with their review sections on steam all the time.
Most gamers don't give a fuck about the state of the industry they barely can even handle a game with story (for me story is the most important factor of a good game). They are just retards who want multiplayer shooty bang bang. I'm in the old world camp of wanting the entire game industry to collapse into complete ruin. I don't care how many of my favourite IPs must be sacrificed, the 80s video game crash needs to happen again, and much more severely. Total war is a very bad example to use because the moron historical total war crowd are zealous and will get anything not warhammer in an attempt to try and prove something about fantasy not being good.