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This is one reason I've effectively stopped caring about steam review bombs. People review bomb over the stupidest shit and never change their review if the tiny issue is fixed
A game having a bad translation in your language is a valid concern, and not "stupid shit".
From people who have no translation in their own language, yes it is.
Big countries really sound entitled when you've lived a life of your language not even being considered, I understand where they come from but I can't help but feel a little aggravated
The dislike for the translation appears to be more a bunch of idiot not liking wuxia style speech.
This would be like English speakers review bombing silksong over it's Shakespearean style of speech.
The translation is fine and accurate to the source.
Calling it a bad translation is just objectively not true. At worse you could make an argument that it's too accurate and over steps instead of taking into consideration the gap between wuxia and modern Chinese versus Shakespearean and modern English
Translations are a delicate issue. It is not enough to translate the original words to their most accurate counterparts, you have to convey the intention behind the words. Are you a native chinese speaker?
Buying a game because it claims it is available in your language and then getting served an awful, nonsensical translation is absolutely not a stupid reason to leave a bad review.
This will be fixed in a week or two, but 80% of the reviews will not change. That's just what review bombers do. Many buy the game to jump on the band wagon and refund the game. Review still counts.
Yeah, that's a consequence of putting out a flawed product. Who cares?
In this one case, it kinda sucks for the devs since they presumably had no way of knowing they were releasing a flawed product. It was probably the translator that fucked them over.
Don't sell to markets you don't understand. I don't feel sorry for them, even as a big Hollow Knight fan.
I don't even understand how that logic is supposed to work. Fuck every localisation attempt, then? 99% of games will be English only?
Poor translation seems like a pretty fair reason to me tbh, steam now groups reviews by language too
I've stopped caring about steam reviews completely. Too often I have bought a game that was reviewed as overwhelmingly positive and it turned out to be some boring ass niche game. At least I got them refunded.
Ironically, this is how I feel about Hollow Knight lol
Yep, this is caused because people flood in from their little discord server where everyone has crawled up the dev's ass. Once you learn to recognize this you'll never be able to unsee it.
This makes sense. I never went with the whole discord thing, so I didn't think of that possibility.
I have no idea why one would ever use that platform as a forum of sorts. To me it was always a bloated alternative to ventrilo or TeamSpeak.
For me, it's massive shitpost in reviews which I just want to know if the game is good. The worst thing is their often so unfunny and wish there's a way to filter out those reviews (which is using it loosely)
Why can't they speak freedom language? πΊπ²ππ£πΊπ² we're here to fuck up democracy and act like the center of the world, and we're out of democracy πΊπ²
Would be fun if Lemmy had a feature to block people / instances by country, now that I think of it