Hanfling wrote:
Well, about those moddb users:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-revision/reviews
For any game rating you would get some gaussian distribution, which fits roughly when you take out the lowest ratings. So people vote with 1% because it's steam only. That behaviour is really annoying. And those are not some single people, but 1/3 of the people who do vote, not even including people who take the steam only thing negative into account when voting. And this really does raise the question, why should I work on/release anything for free again - people treat us like Revision is a full price retail game.
One of the reasons why I've been uncharacteristically aggressive at ModDB for the past few months is shitty behaviour from people who have not and will not make anything productive in their lives.
I guess in a sense it's a shame that in the end, Deus Ex still is a cult game only, because AAA games like Project CARS get the same kind of behaviour and low ratings due to butthurt entitled man-children, but since those games are actually popular, the higher ratings just keep coming in from the masses so the sockpuppet ratings are more or less buried. But in DX's case, there won't be such a mass of players since it's not a very popular game in the end.
And shamefully, the low ratings and "mixed reception" will make other people potentially interested in playing DXREV think twice and those ratings will probably stain and influence their minds while playing it. For example, DXREV was featured on the website of the most prominent gaming magazine in Finland,
Pelit, and while some comments are vaguely funny in their own right "lol it still looks like crap 8=D", there are a bunch of "i don't know, check out the ratings" ones as well. It's reminiscent of the game Godhand from a few years back and how IGN's 3.0/10 rating might have ruined any chances it might have had.
(Which of course leads to the question of who the hell needs people who play games based on ratings like that without doing the research first, among other ones...)
And all this Internet drama might have had an adverse effect on the impact of DXREV's release, because while the major sites like RPS, PCGamer, Kotaku, Wired and The Verge have featured the mod, the daily pageviews on ModDB have only topped out at 8k whereas a two-bit ham sandwich theater mod like Deus Ex: Nihilum got 13.5k when many of those sites I just mentioned featured it. In fact, one of the greatest tragedies in this situation is that now DXN has a higher rating than DXREV on ModDB which it doesn't deserve at all. My OOC aggressive manner of defending DXREV has led to some people changing their 10/10 votes for DXN to 1/10 ones but even that is only a handful, and DXREV has to suffer from the situation it didn't deserve.
Which is why I've adopted Jonas' post from this thread into an eternal reminder (
http://www.moddb.com/members/fastgamerr ... ts#5545501 ) for the dxtrullz plagueing Revision, but of course rational statements like that have no way of breaking through their entitlement yolo barriers.
Of course, DXREV hasn't even been out for a week so anything can still happen, but I totally share and feel the dismay of the Caustic Creative team in this situation.
To paraphrase Dave Chappelle over this situation (except instead of people parroting "I'm Rick James, bitch", it's for the once-pretty-swell ModDB & Steam Deus Ex communities):
"Every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid."