[osobo]

There really is no such thing as 'gamers', any more than there are 'movie-goers' or 'streamers'. Everybody does it. Some demographics will love to tribe up just for the sake of it. Some will just shrug and move on. One of the saddest things about game marketing is how it's still hyper-focused on horny teens.

That said: As long as companies can change their TOS, content or even the availability of their game, the review system should be equally flexible.

[johnnyanmac]

>There really is no such thing as 'gamers', any more than there are 'movie-goers' or 'streamers

I do think there are such things as movie-goers and streamers. There is a difference between "I watch a marvel movie a few times a year" and "I watch a few different kinds of movies a month and discuss them at movie club meetings".

We can bikeshed the name but I'm really just talking about enthusiasts who do more than popular consumption within a hobby/medium.The stereotype doesn't matter much to my main point.

>As long as companies can change their TOS, content or even the availability of their game, the review system should be equally flexible.

My point was that review systems are not the place for "flexible" reviews, unless the game itself fundamentally changed. You can make petitions and post on social media and make videos and all that. But I don't think a user review platform is the place for the aforementioned tribalism.

The only reason I'm not fully against it is because consumers shouldn't just base their purchase of products on how popular it is (a literal fallacy in debate). They should be able to read some reviews, see that it useless or tribal to your opinon, and find proper reviews or ways to evaluate media. But that's a bigger societal can of worms to open.