Cyberpunk 2077 Shows Why Review Bombing is So Bad
CD Projekt Red's sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 2077 is hardly the first game to experience a rocky launch, and it definitely won't be the last. Recent years have provided plenty of examples of where over-hyped and highly anticipated titles have failed to make the right kind of impact, either because of unfair fan expectations, developer missteps, or both. Cyberpunk 2077 may not have been able to deliver on its own hype, with bugs, missing features that had been promised during development, and some lackluster NPC animations, but CD Projekt Red has dedicated the years since launch to rolling out patch after patch to try and get Cyberpunk 2077 into much better shape. Some fans may remain unconvinced, but others agree that Cyberpunk 2077 has more than redeemed itself.
As such, it feels particularly galling to a large number of players to see Cyberpunk 2077 become the victim of review bombing once more. The phenomenon – where a group of individuals deliberately target a product with negative reviews to harm its reputation and sales – has been a weapon wielded more than once in the video game community to take down games for various reasons. Cyberpunk 2077 has already had its fair share of problems since it was launched in 2020, and the most recent review bomb attack has helped to highlight how needlessly vicious the practice is.
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