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Post by kb on Mar 24, 2015 0:49:15 GMT
Despite Port and Starr's best efforts to get the community to distort the scores, just a month and half after Starr made his Steam Review Request, the rating of the game has still slipped to "Mostly Positive" anyway. Guess they better post another request for Loyal Backers to pump up that review score again! What could possibly go wrong!? I mean, it's not like it comes across as desperate and shady when Starr makes requests like that, or as thin-skinned when Dallas takes the time to post a shit ton of comments to my negative review which are nothing more than copy pasta of the very same positive spin he posted in the forums in response to people's objections to Port's sleaze. ... So, my question to Port is, now that the game has fallen to "Mostly Positive" anyway (not even two months after your request): Was it really worth it? Was it worth lowering yourself to the act of soliciting only POSITIVE reviews from LOYAL backers to distort the rating for less than TWO MONTHS of maintaining a better steam rating? Was it worth alienating those of us who found Starr's request distasteful from the start, and tried to warn against this course of action (only to be shouted down by sycophantic fanboys and ignored, like always, by the devs... who were too busy sitting in their little cult-like world, insulated from reality by their oceans of hubris and arrogance)? Was your one and half month of "Very Positive" status worth people now writing negative reviews like this (something that will continue in the future because of your poorly thought out astroturfing): All this damage, all this shadiness, all of this sleaze... and for what? 1.5 months of "Very Positive" vs "Mostly Positive" rating. Wow. So not worth it imo. And, btw, that "mostly positive" status is probably a fair rating for the game given its unfinished state and "pay for advantage" stuff, so just accept what people really think with some fucking grace FFS instead of resorting to soliciting your fanboys to cover the ugly truth with misleading positive spin!!!!! You proud fuckers can't say you weren't warned. You just ignored every piece of good advice like always (especially if it was coming from a non-fanboy who isn't busy worshipping your pencil dicks 24/7), and your reason for ignoring what was common sense advice: you smelled money and can't see past your stupid short-term gains and gimmicky grip on what you think successful marketing is and what *REAL* integrity means. The irony is that your own greed and short-sightedness will cost you more money in the long run. Just imagine if a game like LoL tried to run things the way you guys do. That shit would be a ghost town overnight. But, that is a thriving game (though not a game I like), and its successful largely because Riot actually knows how to market and sell it. If you jokers ran that game, time-to-cash-grab would probably need to be measured in the milliseconds! If you had only conducted yourself honestly and with integrity, let the reviews be organic and to come as they may (good and bad), and stopped this needless spinning and over-promising/over-hyping everything -- then you would have made a lot more money in the long run. Instead, for some fucked up reason you thought that 1.5 months of "Very Positive" status was worth all of this shit. I wonder how many sales you had on Steam during these last 2 months. How many less would it have been if the rating had slipped one notch? Probably not a huge difference, but apparently enough of a difference to make me regret ever giving any of you a dime (because it's really shitty to have helped employ people who think your type of astrosturfing is legit and warranted from a crowd-funded/sourced project that goes around lauding its transparency and groovy backer-dev ecosystem).... As always, Portalarium shows us all that they are the masters of one being thing above all else: #PennyWisePoundFoolish |
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Post by kb on Mar 24, 2015 1:11:33 GMT
P.S. Click below to hear the exclusive new music track that Port has released just for its LOYAL backers (who will now sport this exclusive in-game title wherever they may roam: les sucettes)!!!!
Les Sucettes (Lollipops... "suckers")
Annie aime les sucettes
Annie likes lollipops
Les sucettes à l'anis
Lollipops of anise
Les sucettes à l'anis
Lollipops of anise
D'Annie
Of Annie
Donnent à ses baisers
Give her kisses
Un goût ani-
A taste of ani-
Sé lorsque le sucre d'orge
Seed, when the barley sugar
Parfumé à l'anis
Perfumed with aniseed
Coule dans la gorge d'Annie
Slides down Annies throat
Elle est au paradis
She is in paradise
Chorus:
Pour quelques pennies Annie
For a few pennies, Annie's
A ses sucettes à l'anis
Aniseed lollipops
Elles ont la couleur de ses grands yeux
They have the color of her large eyes
La couleur des jours heureux
The color of happy days
Annie aime les sucettes
Annie likes lollipops
Les sucettes à l'anis
Lollipops of anise
Les sucettes à l'anis
Lollipops of anise
D'Annie
Of Annie
Donnent à ses baisers
Give her kisses
Un goût ani-
A taste of ani-
Sé lorqu'elle n'a sur la langue
Seed, when it's on her tongue
Que le petit bâton
That little stick
Elle prend ses jambes à son corps
It takes her legs to her body
Et retourne au drugstore
And returns to the drugstore
Chorus
Lorsque le sucre d'orge
When the barley sugar
Parfumé à l'anis
Perfumed with aniseed
Coule dans la gorge d'Annie
Slides down Annies throat
Elle est au paradis
She is in paradise
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Post by Sicherdraht on Mar 25, 2015 2:38:28 GMT
Here is another tune the SotA producers can play good and loud, and thanks for the Bank slots selling in the cash shop.
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Post by Sicherdraht on Mar 25, 2015 7:19:53 GMT
"Good move"
14 day free trial steam release 17. Call it a stress test. Go outside the box.
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Post by grimgryphon on Mar 25, 2015 12:34:55 GMT
It's back up to Very Positive. Seems the "community" is back at work again.
I also noticed the negative reviews are dropping down the list fairly quickly, which probably means fanboys are going in and marking them all "not helpful" again. *groan*
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Post by kb on Mar 26, 2015 0:33:10 GMT
It's back up to Very Positive. Seems the "community" is back at work again. I also noticed the negative reviews are dropping down the list fairly quickly, which probably means fanboys are going in and marking them all "not helpful" again. *groan* Meh. Your review bumped it back down, and it will move back and forth many times. I just made my post to make the point that the game dropping its rating was inevitable and that all Port did with their stupid steam review request was piss off a bunch of people who find it unprofessional for a company to ask for positive reviews. I mean, shit, idk what to say if what is made clear in simple things like an Uber training video and Yelp tips for businesses (that explicitly explain why asking for positive reviews is a bad idea) still manages to elude Starr (with all his vast marketing knowledge--ha!) and Dallas (with all his years of experience in this industry). Fucking sad they are so out of touch with what it means to be a consumer and they are clueless about the online marketplace. It amazes me that they don't understand how tacky and damaging it is to a brand if its company begs for positive reviews from loyal customers. Anyway, I've been watching the reviews very closely since the Steam Review Request and while the "community" certainly does pile on the down votes when it comes to negative reviews (and up votes for worthless positive reviews), over time there are more general steam users and players who vote honestly than SotA fanboys who distort the reviews. For example, most negative reviews start with a terrible helpful rating (like your review's 0 of 3, for example ... which will change to 1 of 4 soon after my upvote). However, give it a bit of time, and the fanboys (who are few in number) will get distracted by other reviews and your review will slowly start to pick up upvotes here and there like this one did (started out like "0 of 3" and now it's approaching 50%). Finally, if the review is detailed enough (and not just a negative review for the sake of being negative -- like so many of the positive reviews are like one sentence just posted for the sake of being positive), it will start to fall into the 66% helpful range (the total number of up votes will also make it visible on many of the "helpful" filters when looking through the steam reviews). Since the "helpful" rating places reviews based on number of up votes, so long as your review is getting more upvotes in total than other positive reviews (even those with higher "helpful" percentages), it will place your reviewtoward the top in the display mode that sorts based on helpfulness (I think "Most helpful (this week)" is the default search setting for when people read reviews on Steam, at least on Steam's web interface, but not sure). Anyway, here are 3 examples of reviews that started with low scores, but are now in the 60-70% helpful range and typically show up toward the top of the results when using the "helpful" filter: steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197967165654/recommended/326160/steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197967559739/recommended/326160/steamcommunity.com/id/RedCombLP/recommended/326160/At various times, I've been watching what this view looks like to potential buyers researching the game. While there are plenty of "positive" reviews to push down the negative ones, there are still plenty of negative reviews interlaced throughout many of the different search filter results, so even if the fanboys downvote negative reviews, they still show up enough to register to people to read through them. And the people who don't, like Deckerr, are going to be unsatisfied customers (who won't buy anything else from Port, probably), so they are shooting themselves in the foot in that account, because presenting the game in the most positive light (based on what we want it to become) is not fair to people who are buying it seeing that "Very Positive" rating) and not realizing just how incomplete it is, even though it's an early access game. What a lot of SotA fans don't understand is that the state of completion for Early Access games on Steam runs the gamut, and while there are plenty of games that aren't even close to being finished, most of the games that cost what SotA costs ($45) are complete-ish. There is one negative review that points this out better than I can: |
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Post by kb on Mar 26, 2015 0:58:41 GMT
And, keeping with the music clips (because I'm a sucker for linking thoughts to music/videos)....
Hey,yo... Port:
You must unlearn what you have learned
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter
You must feel the force around you
Between you, me, the tree
CONCENTRATE!
Feel the force....
Adventure - heh. Excitement - heh.
A Jedi craves not these things!
IF YOU CHOOSE THE QUICK AND EASY PATH
YOU WILL BECOME AN AGENT OF EVIL!!
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Post by kb on Mar 26, 2015 1:58:35 GMT
A bit more on topic than Yoda videos.... Here is an example of how even negative reviews that get down-voted like crazy at first ( like mine did) can ultimately gain traction when people realize what a sham all of these one line positive fanboy astroturfed reviews are: ^This guy wrote his own review before reading mine (he probably followed my comment on his review back to my profile/review, or maybe he just saw it on the normal page of reviews and recognized my avatar/screen name, idk). The point I'm making here, and that I made on SotA's forum in the Steam Review Request thread (and in some PMs that likely filtered up the chain), is that by rallying the community to pump out these hollow, boilerplate-feeling kind of positive reviews (many which are one line, and/or overstate how much fun the game is and oversell its features, many which aren't even in-game yet), Port damages their credibility and the user experience after people like Deckerr realize the game's rating is not reflective of its current state because the devs actively used the fans to distort the reviews. Doesn't matter how great they make the game after doing that, as more and more people catch a whiff of this stinky sleaze, it will totally turn them off toward the game and Port won't see a DIME from any of us ever again. Not surprisingly, they didn't see any problem with what they were doing even though many people gave them explicit warnings and explanations about why this practice was a bad idea (I even quoted shit from Yelp just to try to get them to realize that what they were doing was pretty gauche across industries). Instead of heeding our sound advice, they dug in their heels and insisted they were right and that people like me were fools to even entertain the notion that they might be open to ALL reviews. For one, negative feed-back (even that which is unfair and ridiculous) is a part of operating a business and selling a product, and it's where you look for areas that need improving. Secondly, leaving people free to make up their own mind (without direct coaching) is just good manners. Period. It's fine to politely ask for an honest review, but extremely rude to explicitly ask for positive reviews. Every successful business owner knows this, or at least should. But, instead of having the good sense to check their hubris at the door and admit they were wrong, Dallas posted his big long rationalization about this practice on the forums (and the fact that he took the time to copy/pasted it to my review in over 8+ comments, made me lulz for days... guess it really bugged them that, for awhile, my review was in the prime spot when filtered for "most helpful"... oh port, you so funny!). I just can't believe they thought that Steam Review Request was the smart way of going about getting more positive reviews. There are TONS of resources out there that give guidance on how to solicit reviews the RIGHT way. example: I guess Starr never stumbled across any of this simple-minded stuff when he was becoming a master of marketing.... ;P In nearly every source I can find that mentions it is okay to ask customers for reviews, they always give examples where there is NO coaching as to what kind of reviews the customers are being asked to leave. The customer is only asked to leave a review, no mention of nonsense like subverting Steam's "Very Positive" vs "Mostly Positive" algorithm: Notice that last one, Port? (" Honest review.") Or how about in the first how it just asks customers to "review your experience"? They are neutral in their wording, which is respectful of people's right to MAKE UP THEIR OWN MIND and not to feel pressured to vote a certain way, and they even allude to the fact that just asking for a review is imposition enough (e.g., "if you take a few moments..."). You should be taking notes, Starr (and Dallas)! Finally, we all can probably see the connection between Portalarium, their attitude toward negative reviews/feed-back, and the following: That last part is particularly telling. I made the point over and over again that there was no need to ask for positive reviews on the forums because the users there were already likely to leave positive reviews. All that Port needed to do was ask for reviews, if they were really going to do it, and leave it at that. No "positive" stuff, no "loyal" backers nonsense. Just come out and say something NEUTRAL like the examples above. But, even when making this point multiple times, Dallas rebuked it with the following: ^ I NEVER said they should ask the community to leave negative reviews. Time and time again, I said they should leave "positive" and "negative" qualifiers out of it and just ask for a review and let the chips fall where they may. Dallas' response is a straw-man, knocking down an argument that was NEVER made, and showing just how delusional and unwilling to listen to reason all of them are. HOW THE FUCK CAN SOMETHING LIKE "YOU SHOULD JUST ASK FOR STRAIGHT UP REVIEWS, NOT *POSITIVE* REVIEWS FROM *LOYAL* BACKERS" BE MISCONSTRUED TO MEAN "YOU SHOULD ASK FOR NEGATIVE REVIEWS"  ?!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!! Even so, his response shows that he TOTALLY misses the point that nearly *ALL* feed-back is valuable, and it makes me want to die when I think about contributing one penny to people who write things like "Why in the world would we want to have backers go give our unfinished, pre-Alpha game a negative review? That would just be suicidal, and against the best interests of this game and against the best interests of everyone that helped fund the development of this game." Why in the world would they want ALL people to review the game they backed, including those who like it and those who don't? Hmm... idk, maybe because ALL feed-back is valuable, and even the negative feed-back would be useful in improving your game FFS! However, it seems clear to me your own systemic aversion to criticism, and your misguided desire to drive short-term sales with sham reviews, is in fact what most goes against the best interests of the game (and everyone who helped fund and develop it). Don't those of us who backed the game deserve to express our opinions about it, be they good or bad? Isn't that kind of feed-back and your company's response to it the very type of "ecosystem" that Starr is always pontificating about (you guys sure talk the talk, but you sure as hell don't walk the walk).... What part of all of this very common sense thing about treating your customers with respect don't you get, Dallas and Starr? When a business needs to ask its customers for reviews, it does just that. It asks for a review. Not a POSITIVE review. Not a NEGATIVE review. Somebody says something like "hey, would you mind leaving us a review?" and you leave it at that. You have to have confidence that your product and your service is good enough to warrant the review being positive, and if it's not, you better look into improving your product and service (not wasting time and energy astro-turfing the reviews!!!!). It's up to the person reviewing to decide what to score you. Your only input in the process is soliciting a review in a no-pressure way (with ABSOLUTELY NO QUALIFIERS as to what kind of review should be left!). Also, you don't only cherry-pick only your LOYAL customers when you solicit reviews (if you forget why you don't do such a thing, then please see the following Yelp info that talks about the how doing that creates bias in your reviews and the lack of trust it inspires in your potential and current customers is not worth the false positive image you've created): Finally, you don't try to minimize and negate the negative feedback that people have left you! If you want good fucking reviews, make a good fucking game.... and that starts by addressing and fixing MOST of what people are complaining about in those "unfair" negative reviews you guys are all too happy to ignore and mock in videos like the "We read all comments" video!!!!!! Stop with this juvenile belief that surrounding yourself by sycophants and yes-men is in anyway helping you to achieve your goal. It's not.... Unless your goal is to grab a bunch of cash from nostalgic fools, make some cash machine that preys on their need to keep up with the Joneses, and then ride your horse off into the sunset of retirement, laughing all the way to the bank.... Then, I must admit, you're doing a fucking bang up job! |
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Post by Envy Gaming on Mar 26, 2015 3:45:23 GMT
What's with the walls of text and videos? Honestly, what a load of drivel.
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Post by kb on Mar 26, 2015 4:06:29 GMT
What's with the walls of text and videos? Honestly, what a load of drivel. Maybe nobody wants to read it or cares, but at least I got to say that stuff and get it off my chest. And nobody is holding a gun to your head forcing you to read my stuff, Envy. I'd love to read all the amazing stuff you've posted here, but it's hard when you don't make a user account (and you don't really post much here). If you're all about fantastic forum content, feel free to show me how it's done and make some quality posts here. |
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Mar 26, 2015 6:59:13 GMT
I appreciate everything you've been speaking about in detail kb, even though it may take me a few days to get in to read and soak it in fully. The best advice for people is really to go in and read as much as they can from the review area, for some it isn't too late. For some of us, it is  Search for negative views specifically, that is what I do, it is easy to tell is someone is just flipping off at the handle or if they truly cared for the game and were disappointed by it. It is then a simple matter of some research to check validity and severalty of the issues in the negative comments. |
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Post by attrib on Mar 29, 2015 0:24:31 GMT
Yep, I told you before this is pretty bad. Unfortunately this will never change, more people will fall for these misleading recommendations. This is just the start of it.
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Post by kb on Mar 29, 2015 20:10:12 GMT
Yep, I told you before this is pretty bad. Unfortunately this will never change, more people will fall for these misleading recommendations. This is just the start of it. You might be right, but there is still some hope for those who at least look at the reviews. As of this moment, here is what the SotA reviews on Steam look like upon first clicking them to get a closer view (they default to sorting based on helpfulness, which selects the most helpful recent reviews):    ^ yes, that's right. The first eight reviews that a user will see at the current time are all "Not Recommended." This goes to show that even if the "community" downvotes negatives reviews, and upvotes positives ones, there are MANY more REAL people out there than there are sycophantic toadies who make it their mission in life to carry Port's water.... At some point in the "Steam Review Request" thread, somebody said something like "in the end, the players and Steam community will decide whether Starr's request was a good thing or a bad thing." <-- This is true, especially now that we can see REAL players can make their opinion felt via giving reviews upvotes and downvotes (and the fanboys can't keep up with all the negative reviews that keep climbing to top spot in the "most helpful" sort). As time wears on and more and more people buy SotA (many unaware of its problems and this dishonest gaming of the review system), those disgruntled customers will continue to add to the negative reviews (and upvoting negative reviews, while downvoting positive ones). So, I guess in the end, the true colors of SotA are showing to anybody who bothers to dig a little bit deeper. Port made a huge blunder here, and as I've said before, they can't say they weren't warned.  |
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Post by kb on Mar 29, 2015 20:16:43 GMT
P.S. Adding random YT video to piss Envy off...... b/c FUCK YOU (FUCK YOU), FUCK YOU (FUCK YOU):
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Post by Envy Gaming on Mar 29, 2015 23:34:31 GMT
Nice video, kb. I'm feeling guilty now and I might even have to register an account as suggested. I was really only fishing for a little conflict with my comment, just because it's something I can't do on the official authoritarian forums. I just had that urge, you know. Please forgive my insubordination |
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Post by kb on Mar 30, 2015 10:22:46 GMT
Nice video, kb. I'm feeling guilty now and I might even have to register an account as suggested. I was really only fishing for a little conflict with my comment, just because it's something I can't do on the official authoritarian forums. I just had that urge, you know. Please forgive my insubordination You better feel guilty, goddamnit. We can't have people just going around posting whatever they want to post under guest accounts. It would be chaos, I tell you. Chaos.... and rainbows!  After all, if you don't make an account, how I am going to stalk your every post and leave pointless YT clips in response to everything you say? It's just not feasible to do this shit when you're always on a guest account, bro. So shape up or ship out FFS! Also...... |
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Post by kb on Apr 3, 2015 10:37:52 GMT
Bump to add link for ease of finding it again: www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/935/view/forums/thread/428225/Interesting-Steam-review.html(Dallas' copy pasta spin on my review makes sense now, considering the date of that post on MMORPG matches when he spammed my review with evidence that he is 100% clueless about what it's like to be a consumer... How fucking sad that it takes a thread gaining some traction on MMORPG for Port to even begin to consider that their request might be coming across poorly after all. Too bad their response to people's misgivings was just like their response to everything: Denial, more spin, and laughably ineffective damage control) |
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Post by Sicherdraht on Apr 4, 2015 7:42:35 GMT
There was never a real game plan for Shroud from the Kickstarter, Richard just sold himself. We all saw what that was worth. He was banking on some sort of steamroller he saw from Star Citizen. After doing my taxes last week, I went to lunch with my CPA. I ran some numbers real fast to him about this game and background of the Cat making it. He didn't know much of the IT industry, but said he would be better off selling used cars.
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Post by kb on Apr 7, 2015 16:12:04 GMT
 Ummmm.... wait a second.... HOLY SHIT!  AWWWWWWWWW YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH BOI!!!!!!!  |
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Post by grimgryphon on Apr 8, 2015 3:03:36 GMT
Ummmm.... wait a second.... HOLY SHIT! AWWWWWWWWW YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH BOI!!!!!!! Well, that explains the positive reviews. |
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Post by Ky Jelly on Apr 8, 2015 4:11:09 GMT
the butt hurt is priceless here! I hope you all have enough lube!
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Post by grimgryphon on Apr 8, 2015 12:28:26 GMT
the butt hurt is priceless here! I hope you all have enough lube! Oh look, another coward from the SotA foums afraid to use his/her other forum name. Insane, could we get a calendar listing days and times the SotA groupies escape from their Portalarium cages? There has to be a pattern to it. Maybe it's ruled by the moon. |
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Post by kb on Apr 8, 2015 15:06:34 GMT
the butt hurt is priceless here! I hope you all have enough lube! Yeah, KY, tell me about it! The number of butt-hurt sycophants who come here under Anonymous names to make snide comments because they are too cowardly to post it under their real SotA-forum name is really something, isn't it? Boy, those delusional SotA fans sure get bent out of shape when people can actually speak their mind without having Port delete/edit our posts, ban us, or endlessly regurgitate positive spin and say the word "troll" a bunch in response to valid complaints! Guess Hell hath no fury like a member of the SotA-cult scorned, eh? And, butthurt or not, every point I've made here (and in the original Steam Review Request thread) still stands up against the SotA-sycophants' little 2 line reviews where they gush about how tasty the dev's micro-cocks are. Also, I'm still right about how clueless the fanboys and devs are when it comes to the broader gaming community. Tons of the negative reviews posted are legit and well thought out, they discuss positives and negatives, and yet you sycophantic fanboys still vote those reviews down as unhelpful because all of you can't bear the thought that maybe, just maybe, the thing you love isn't as good as you believe it to be (or will be). While some of the critics truly might be butt hurt about how this game's development has gone, it's a hell of a lot better to be butt hurt than to be drowning in denial and unable to bare anybody saying ANYTHING negative about your precious little personality cult. THIS IS WHAT THE TYPICAL SotA-SYCOPHANT, AND ENDLESS DEV SPINNING OF THE POSITIVES, REMINDS ME OF: Enjoy your Kool-Aid and ride on the mothership, suckers! |
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Post by KY Jelly on Apr 8, 2015 15:46:50 GMT
Yes, let your anger consume you, feel the force of the darkside! Lawlz. ~Hands out kleenex to all the sad lonely souls~
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Post by Mordecai on Apr 9, 2015 12:06:25 GMT
We use preparation H for butthurt. Nice try.
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Post by kb on Jul 13, 2015 21:35:23 GMT
Sry for the thread necro. Thought this was worth sharing.
starrlong wrote:
I love that part of my fall from grace was my objections to the Steam Review Request.
Only now, as the game approaches "Mixed" status, do they finally dial it back on their policy toward negative reviews and Steam Reviews in general....
Will they lift the bans they handed out regarding this issue? Will they apologize to those of us who stood up to the bad ideas advanced by Starr and Dallas in that Steam Review Request thread?
Not a chance.
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Post by Foss on Jul 13, 2015 22:04:59 GMT
Yes, let your anger consume you, feel the force of the darkside! Lawlz. ~Hands out kleenex to all the sad lonely souls~ Real people use Gun Oil... |
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Jul 14, 2015 2:37:58 GMT
Sry for the thread necro. Thought this was worth sharing. starrlong wrote: Not a chance. Exactly. Though you are now owed that chance, especially the apology! |
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Post by fossil on Jul 14, 2015 3:00:14 GMT
Sry for the thread necro. Thought this was worth sharing. starrlong wrote: Not a chance. Exactly. Though you are now owed that chance, especially the apology! Either they have big plans to reveal or reality is setting in... |
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Post by kb on Nov 3, 2015 1:35:18 GMT
Thread necro time to add two tidbits: 1) Yesterday (or a day or two ago??) SotA dipped to 70% positive rating, before a couple of recent positive reviews bumped it back up to the 71% that it's been hovering at for quite awhile. That's getting mighty close to the "Mixed" status, Port. Better round up your LOYAL backers to counter these DISLOYAL meanies and their negative reviews, Starr. 2) I don't know what Chris is thinking when he posts comments in response to negative reviews, but he's not doing the game any favors. This particular exchange warmed my old, "toxic/disgruntled" troll-heart. Best read from bottom to top:  My favorite parts... - > Could you please actually give meaningful feedback?
Portalarium got loads of Kickstarter backer and Early Access feedback, and decided to delete it, because they did not like the negative part.
and don't forget when a Wild Gargamel appears:
- "If they concentrated more on... finishing the product than screening comments I would not be so concerned. But as they seem to troll every negative comment, fuck them."
- "I'm a customer, so dont tell me what to say 'catnipgames', your product is shit."
Touché, Gargamel, Tou-fucking-ché (I can almost hear the " ravage the land as never before, total destruction from mountain to shore"...) |
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Search for negative views specifically, that is what I do, it is easy to tell is someone is just flipping off at the handle or if they truly cared for the game and were disappointed by it. It is then a simple matter of some research to check validity and severalty of the issues in the negative comments.
