A wave of negative but contextless user reviews temporarily tanked Chained Echoes' score, generating more than a little frustration.
machine-translated from German) that it's still"really annoying when you have to guess who you pissed off and for what reason"., Hoss said his best guess was that some contingent of international players was upset about the game lacking support for a specific language, but it's impossible to say for certain one way or another.
In a chat with GamesRadar, Hoss said he's"still amazed that Metacritic is still used by so many platforms " and that he hopes the"the constant outrage" created by review bombing events like these might spark a wider change."Especially with the review bombing for LGBTQI+ content," Hoss said,"that can seriously damage smaller indie games in terms of sales. And while The Last of Us 2 can deal with that, a smaller indie can really suffer there".
Hoss also noted that"what starts on Metacritic often leads to people harassing devs via social media or sending them hate mail," feeding a toxic cycle of abuse.—also machine translated—the fact that the event"went through the roof a bit") seems to have compelled Metacritic to fix things, it seems like the rest of his criticism still applies. After all, not every instance of review bombing gains this much attention.
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