I mean, it unquestionably was exactly that. A full 2/3rds of the reviews in the first week came from people with 0 hours played.
PoE1 players were upset by GGG's decision to reallocate resources to PoE2, so they collectively decided to retaliate with Steam reviews except they didn't think to leave their clients idle for a couple days first so it was incredibly obvious when you clicked through every profile with 0.0 hours played in the patch.
The even funnier part is how many of their reviews look like this now:
Anyway, as for testing games for developers - yeah guy we're on board. It's called crowdsourcing and it's very efficient.
This was a valid complaint when developers would release finished games that turned out to be buggy, but now they're fully being transparent with you dude. They're asking you to participate in the design & development process by playing an unfinished version of the game. You don't have to do that if you don't want to. It's entirely voluntary.
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We enjoy having hobbies and interests to relax and unwind - GGG this isn't it.
Cripes I wish people would stop trying to speak on behalf of people they don't know. Just share your opinion about the game and stop acting like you're an activist. I love PoE2. I'm having a blast. My kids might be feeling neglected by that's nothing new for them.
Thank you for a sensible post in a sea of craziness.
A +1 to everything you said.
The whole review-situation on games is a bit ridiculous these days, with more people willing to use reviews offensively than there are people who just want to give an honest review for a game.
It is kind of amusing when there are people with hundreds, sometimes thousands of hours in a game along with more hours played in the last two weeks than there are hours of daylight paired with a recent negative rating.
Those kinds of reviews say way more about the player than they do the game, and it's a shame we can't find a good way to filter them out all the noise. Same problem with feedback on these forums I suppose.
