Elden Ring is Still Being Review Bombed

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Elden Ring has received incredibly high reviews from critics and fans alike, but there appears to be a certain group of players who were not satisfied with their experience. This group is continuing to review bomb the game on Metacritic, leaving a slew of extremely negative reviews that drag down the game's overall reception. Some fans of Elden Ring are beginning to suspect that the people leaving these negative reviews are not acting in good faith.

Leaving negative reviews on a product to express dissatisfaction with it is standard practice in today's online world. However, review bombing can often have less to do with actual flaws in the title being review bombed and more to do with the users performing the bombing feeling offended by it. Elden Ring has received mixed reviews on Steam for various legitimate performance issues in the past.

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Redditor OkPiccolo2678 drew attention to the fact that a number of users are currently review bombing Elden Ring on Metacritic in a rather suspicious manner. First, it appears to be the same circle of users posting very negative reviews on every platform the game is available on. Second, they generally only leave three or four sentences to explain their rating. Third, some of the accounts in question were reportedly brand new and Elden Ring was one of the first games they'd ever reviewed.

Although Elden Ring players have requested fixes and reported encountering some performance issues, the game is still considered by many to be a triumph of From Software's craft. As such, many Redditors agreed with OkPiccolo2678 that it was odd to see a tide of Metacritic reviews rating the game two out of then or lower. These