Negative reviews & low metacritic scores do not do much to actually hurt games. WAR Z is a perfect example of this. It has one of the worst metacritic scores of all time and was abhord as a huge scam, broken game, and horribly unethical business practices. It even had a deceptive name change. However since Steam perpetuated this, combined with its high marketability, it made something like $42 million. So much for metacritic scores, game journalism, or personal reviews.



In fact, all the bad press they got from scamming people resulted in an INCREASE in sales. There is no such thing as bad press. So anytime someone goes on a personal crusade against a game, they are more likely to increase sales because they are giving the game bad press. There is no such thing as bad press, so it's just more exposure. (WAR Z is not the only example, but it's a great one with evidence to back it up.)

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