Maybe they should take the feedback from reviews and incorporate that into their updates. It's not just that you are being review bombed by unreasonable people, it's that people feel the game has problems that aren't being addressed. I agree it is difficult to recover from a bad release because first impressions are everything. Companies can recover and have, take No Man's Sky for an example.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think another good example would be Cyberpunk 2077. Its release was insanely horrible but it seems they managed to solve it somehow.

Haven’t really followed the gaming news regards this game though. However, I hope they manage to find a solution. The Ori games were truly masterpieces (in my opinion).

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

CDPR had a massive cushion of cash from the Witcher games to bounce them back up. Ori studio obviously doesn't. In this case, without enough sales, the solution is layoffs or selling to a bigger publisher, which will also result in layoffs.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

My understanding is they had a big update that fixed a bunch of issues people complained about, but also made the game more difficult, and people didn't like that.