Hi-Fi Rush gets reverse review bombed after Microsoft shutters Tango Gameworks

[John Elden Ring]

On May 8, Microsoft made the decision to shut down several of its key studios, which included Arcane Austin, responsible for Redfall, and Tango Gameworks, responsible for Hi-Fi Rush.

In the wake of the studio’s closure, some of Tango’s games are now being reverse review bombed, with Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within games seeing a surge of positive reviews on Steam.

Traditionally, a review bomb is when games are hit with an onslaught of scathing reviews, often for a particular reason. Most recently, we saw this with Helldivers 2 as thousands rallied to tarnish the game’s reception on Steam in light of Sony’s controversial PSN requirement, of which they later rolled back. In this case, however, the opposite is happening, as Hi-Fi Rush players are flooding in with positive reviews instead.

From May 7, Hi-Fi Rush saw an increase in positive reviews with nearly a hundred new positive reviews added. Meanwhile, both Evil Within games, also from Tango, are getting dozens after the studio’s closure.

via Dexerto

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[Gediminas]

what it means? steambots are happy for people being fired? i should expect the opposite, be sad, pity them and review bomb the m$. apparently, steambots supports destroying people's life and rewarding m$ with positive reviews. nice morals.

 

[Exicide]

what it means? steambots are happy for people being fired? i should expect the opposite, be sad, pity them and review bomb the m$. apparently, steambots supports destroying people's life and rewarding m$ with positive reviews. nice morals.

I can't imagine seeing this and coming away with the take you just wrote mate.

They're reverse-review bombing it in support of Tango, it's more so symbolical than it is actual effect this time. Unless MS sees it and takes back their shuttering of Tango, I doubt they will though.

 

[klomzi]

what it means? steambots are happy for people being fired? i should expect the opposite, be sad, pity them and review bomb the m$. apparently, steambots supports destroying people's life and rewarding m$ with positive reviews. nice morals.

This is the dumbest take Ive seen on this forum so far today.

It's the opposite, people are angry that Tango is shutdown and are praising Tango, the devs and the game itself and tells MS to go fuck off.

 

[Gediminas]

This is the dumbest take Ive seen on this forum so far today.

It's the opposite, people are angry that Tango is shutdown and are praising Tango, the devs and the game itself and tells MS to go fuck off.

m$ sees that, and, wow, we need to close more studios to be praised with positive reviews. or you so mentally challenge to understand that?

no one is rewarding bad behavior with positive respond actions.
bad behavior should have negative respond action.
i know, wild concept and challenging for people with 80IQ.

fucking degenerates.

 

[Systemshock2023]

no one is rewarding bad behavior with positive respond actions.
bad behavior should have negative respond action.
i know, wild concept and challenging for people with 80IQ.

Where was that energy when horse armour and paid online on PSN were introduced? Read the reviews. They are praising devs, lamenting the closure of the studio and telling fuck you to MS.

 

[Dick Jones]

This will only end up with Xbox division thinking it will bring up the Steam Starfield review scores if Bethesda gets canned.

You have to be an idiot to think this is a smart use of review bombing.

 

[Gediminas]

Where was that energy when horse armour and paid online on PSN were introduced? Read the reviews. They are praising devs, lamenting the closure of the studio and telling fuck you to MS.

where? invent time machine and bring IconEra in 2002. how can i answer where if it isn't existing?

 

[Johnic]

Yeah, that's gonna help...

 

[Umar]

What good is that gonna do? Are these guys stupid? Its not going to bring the studio back from the dead

 

[xollowsob]

what it means? steambots are happy for people being fired? i should expect the opposite, be sad, pity them and review bomb the m$. apparently, steambots supports destroying people's life and rewarding m$ with positive reviews. nice morals.

m$ sees that, and, wow, we need to close more studios to be praised with positive reviews. or you so mentally challenge to understand that?

no one is rewarding bad behavior with positive respond actions.
bad behavior should have negative respond action.
i know, wild concept and challenging for people with 80IQ.

fucking degenerates.

 

[reziel]

So in other words all these people posting their reviews are no better then Xbox players same amount of braincells by the looks of it. Yeah they purchased the game to review but they did it after the damage was done and irreversible. Where were they when the game was released no point in them playing hypocrite now. Besides they need to direct the frustrations towards Zenimax not Microsoft they accepted the offer from them not the other way around.

 

[Kokoloko]

User reviews are even worse than “professional” reviews. Fanboys ruining everything

 

[quest4441]

the reverse review bomb is about 2500 reviews, its more like a small firecracker than a bomb. Frankly them shutting down the studio must have brought in more sales than when it was discounted