>2000+ hours played
>Negative review

>it's some quirky quip "steals all your time. Do not recommend"
>multiple "funny" ratings.

You have to know something intimately, inside and out, before you can pass judgment. Faggot.

>>713892942 (OP)
I'm fine with reviews like that for f2p trash like Warframe or whatever

>don't pay me to review your game
>expect good review for free
no.

>>713892942 (OP)
Someone who has played the game that much will know better than some dipshit that played it for 8 hours and left a review.
Also, patches can completely ruin a game, making someone want to warn others about the state it's in.

>>713892942 (OP)
>prologue alone takes 200 hours
>by the time you realize how shit it is you already have too much time invested to stop without seeing the end (it's also shit)
picrel

>>713892942 (OP)
>Live service or mmo game
>It's great
>Years down the road they ruin the game completely
>Leave negative review
Not hard to get.

>>713892942 (OP)
name some

>>713893153
>Spend 700 hours in a game
>Get burned oit like a retarded nigger with low impulse control
>Grrrrrr ME MAD NOWWWW! ME LEAVE NEGATIVE ANGRY REVIEW AND WARN OTHERS NOT TO PLAY THIS, AFTER I HAD MY FUN FOR HUNDREDS OF HOURS!
>>713893706
Except people that jump into games wont even notice it. Look at games that existed for years and everyone that says how the game was at its peak during X.XX patch. Most people that joined after that point will still say they had a blast. I observed this phenomenon with WoW, League, Dota, Overwatch, Apex, WoT, etc.

>>713892942 (OP)
>why are you reading the negative reviews? this game is great go play it

>>713892942 (OP)
ever smoked crack?

>>713892942 (OP)
Can't decide if it's just a normal bait thread, OP's stupid, or if he just wants porn.
Oh well.
Valid reasons people might rate a game down after playing for years:
>game got an update that broke it
>player realized that they got addicted and had to break free and warn people of it
>player spent way too much money on gacha rolls over the years but finally realized powercreep is making all their spent money useless
>game doesn't work on their new Win 11 computer
>dev got bought out by a worse company
>update added invasive/shit DRM
>sudden censorship due to govt changes in [country]
>dev announced a sequel without fixing issues the original game has
>game went F2P and online's now full of a ton of noobs and scammers
>game SHOULD go F2P but isn't, and all that's left are the sweaty tryhards competing against each other
>dev intentionally/unintentionally broke mods irreparably
>sudden overwhelming cash shop, plus probably P2W shit too
>game's price went up and the old players now want to say "I love it at the price I got it for, but the game's not good enough to justify the new price"
>played it years ago and hopped back on recently to find that everything's changed (for better or worse) and they miss the old game

>>713892942 (OP)
>game is fun
>leave good review
>game gets a dogshit update
>change good review to bad review
Not hard to understand.

Maybe because there was a recent change that broke something, you chunkus

>>713892942 (OP)
>you spent so much time playing it, you must like it
I wanna peel back the layers and study it so I have a better understanding of how garbage works. You can't identify kino if you don't spend some time wading through the trash.
t. played sh homecoming and downpour multiple times and watched the shit ass scarjo ghost in the shell movie like 5 times

>>713893968
name 3

>>713892942 (OP)
>I got addicted to drugs and ruined the best years of my life consumed by their influence
>Better give it a good review and recommendation cause of how much time I spent with it

>>713894859
… I cant

>>713892942 (OP)
How do you know it sucks if you didn't play it

>2000 heroin injections
>doesn't recommend it or support its legalisation
Fucking hypocrite.

>>713893079
I knew your mom intimately inside and out, faggot and she still like it faggot. Just like your dad.

>negative review with low play time
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU NEED TO PLAY IT MORE
>negative review with high play time
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU PLAYED IT TOO MUCH YOU MUST GIVE IT A GOOD REVIEW

>>713896275
>whenever buying a new game on Steam, if I'm unsure about it, I set a timer for about 1h50m
>play the game and decide if I like it or not
>if I don't like it, I return it within the 2 hour window
>always review it too
>sometimes do this with some big-name game
>get some nigga pissing and crying about how the game gets good after 10 hours and that returning it is a sin punishable by god himself
>get a bunch of Steam awards from people, mostly the clown
I mean a game doesn't need to show its full hand within 2 hours, but it still needs to hook the player in in some way in that time, even if it's some 500h game or something.

>>713894859
wow
xiv
runescape
Here you go, nigger.

>>713894698
Made for BWC

>>713897270
They know what they're doing.

>>713892942 (OP)
>Game is fun
>Play 1999 hours
>They push heavy monetization
>Time stolen

can /v/ sticky an FAQ for newfrogs in the future? we've answered why this happens thousands of times.

>not recommended
>3000 hours playtime when reviewing
>currently 5000 hours playtime

>>713892942 (OP)
me and dbd, except its 6k hours

>you’ve played another 300 hours. Would you like to change your negative review?
>No

>>713896898
steam removes your review if you refund the game, retard

>>713892942 (OP)
A lot better than the "Hours played: 0.8" that just say "you can play as X"

>>713894859
FF14
Destiny 2
Diablo 4

>>713892942 (OP)
me with dota 2 except is 7000 hours

>>713898729
I'm typically careful enough with purchases that I almost never refund a game, but that actually seems retarded. Refunding negates your review? So the only way to leave a review of "don't recommend" is to intentionally keep a product you don't want? (Or be outside the refund window)

>>713898729
No it doesn't.
Nigga, look through the reviews of games, sometimes you'll see "product refunded" next to a review. Plus all my old reviews of shit I've refunded is still there, even when viewing my main account from my alt.
As long as you review before refunding, it's fine. I don't think you can review something after refunding it.

>>713894159
k still not seeing any money on my account so no review

>>713892942 (OP)
>Play L4D for 2k+ hours
>Game is consistently ruined by Valve letting newfags rum rampant during sales
>Somehow I'm expected to leave a positive review despite the game being unplayable between the start of the Summer Sale and the end of the Winter Sale
Are you per chance retarded?

>>713892942 (OP)
so?? I spend like 1900 hours per year at my job, and I would not recommend it

>>713894859
Overwatch

I would have given life a positive review at age 12 and a negative one at age 16.
>>713898816
>"you can play as X"
Hell yeah.

>>713892942 (OP)
>Haven’t touched it
>Grrrr you can’t say its bad you didn’t even play it!
>Play for only a few hours
>Grrr you can’t say its bad you only played for a short time!”
>Play for 30 hours
>Grrr you can’t say its bad you didn’t complete it fully and play every route!
>Play for 2,000 hours
>Grrr you can’t say its bad you played the entire gane multiple times which you can only do if you liked it!

>>713894859
>name 3
Lmao come on, that's literally every MMO ever.

Who are you going to trust, someone who played few hours and gave up or the guy who is still a bitter addict despite being able to make a book series about everything he knows to be wrong with the game?

>>713900078
I spend that many hours in a week. Those are rookie numbers.