Kunai is the newest sufferer to Metacritic review-bombing, by way of no fault of its developer.
Turtleblaze, developer of the motion platformer Kunai, revealed in a Gamasutra post how its game acquired evaluation bombed on Metacritic after being well-received by gamers and critics.
It wasn’t as a result of the developer had made any feedback that angered any specific group, or actually something to do with the game itself. The game’s consumer rating on Metacritic dropped from 8.1 to 1.7, all due to a single individual.
The consumer in query not too long ago did an identical factor to Insurgency: Sandstorm’s rating, they usually defined in a since-deleted Reddit post how and why they did it. A backup of the submit was later archived on Imgur.
The submit is filled with nonsense, but it surely reveals how straightforward it’s to tank the consumer rating of any game on Metacritic. All of the current unfavorable opinions for Kunai – accountable for the a lot decrease rating – have been submitted by that very same individual. To do it, they created a bunch of separate accounts utilizing non permanent area/e-mail websites.
Metacritic has no restriction on aliases of that nature, and doesn’t seem to flag a number of opinions from the identical IP tackle. The web site additionally doesn’t confirm possession, not like Steam, so anybody might very simply convey down the rating of any game on Metacritic on a whim.
Review bombs clearly additionally occur on Steam, however game possession verification no less than makes it more durable for anybody to randomly dunk on a game. Valve has additionally gotten higher about highlighting when a game is being review bombed in order to not hurt its rating.
The group has since come collectively to spice up Kunai’s rating again to the place it was. The PC model at present sits at a 7.3, and an excellent higher 8.2 for Switch.
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