Surprisingly, several players conducted a review bombing of Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores on Metacritic, accusing it of promoting a LGBT agenda through a detail in its storyline. The review site is already aware of this and has affirmed that they will strengthen their moderation measures to prevent it from happening again.
From Metacritic's perspective, players made "abusive and disrespectful" reviews; therefore, the company is already working on undisclosed changes to user reviews. These will be implemented in the coming months with the aim of ending this trend of review bombing.
Metacritic will be stricter after review bombing of Horizon's DLC. Through a statement, Metacritic announced that they are preparing for stricter moderation on their site and user reviews. They plan to enhance their tools and review processes to ensure all video game fans feel safe and confident when visiting the site. Fandom, the site’s owner, said, "Metacritic is aware of the abusive and disrespectful criticisms related to Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores, and we have a moderation system to track violations of our terms of use."
Fandom added that their team takes the time to review each report of abuse related to racist, sexist, homophobic acts, or messages containing insults to other users. If inappropriate content is found, Metacritic removes the reviews in question. Fandom concluded by stating that they are currently refining their processes and tools to introduce stricter moderation measures in the next few months but did not provide further details.
Many players positively received the news as they believe that Metacritic needs a radical change, particularly regarding user reviews. We’ll have to wait to see how effective the company's adjustments are in preventing review bombing.
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