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[SEGAvangelist]

Too late, obviously, but I'd like for this to grow into something.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

I pray Tango can somehow break free and be independent, preferably along with their IPs. MS could at least give them that chance instead of taking em out behind the shed and put two in the back of the head.

Presumably they could just start their own studio.

If they were super organised, they could probably set up a go fund me to give proof of concept and then get a deal with a publisher.

 

[Fredrik]

Too late, obviously, but I'd like for this to grow into something.

Sadly it’ll only help selling a game from a closed studio and the money goes into the axe man’s pockets. Too late as you say. Not sure what it could lead into besides some humor that MS closed the studio of their highest rated game.

 

[Topher]

Sadly it’ll only help selling a game from a closed studio and the money goes into the axe man’s pockets. Too late as you say. Not sure what it could lead into besides some humor that MS closed the studio of their highest rated game.

This is always the way, for good or bad. "There is no such thing as bad publicity"

 

[Little Chicken]

It's only charming when used in moderation. Eventually the publishers will get pissed off enough that Valve does something about it.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Sadly it’ll only help selling a game from a closed studio and the money goes into the axe man’s pockets. Too late as you say. Not sure what it could lead into besides some humor that MS closed the studio of their highest rated game.

Downvoting all their other games.

 

[JCK75]

Perhaps people should have bombed it with purchases.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Sadly it’ll only help selling a game from a closed studio and the money goes into the axe man’s pockets. Too late as you say. Not sure what it could lead into besides some humor that MS closed the studio of their highest rated game.

Maybe Phil’s successor will wear a HiFi Rush shirt on stage in 10 years and well get a sequel from the Battletoads devs

 

[midnightAI]

If they want to teach Microsoft a lesson review bomb all other Microsoft games, doing this won't do a thing, it's not like MS will change their mind and not shut down the studio, it's already happened and I doubt any ex-employee will way anything to do with MS after this.

(I am not condoning review bombing by the way, just saying on this instance it won't have any effect anyway)

 

[Topher]

Perhaps people should have bombed it with purchases.

Microsoft should have bombed it with promotions.

 

[Topher]

It's only charming when used in moderation. Eventually the publishers will get pissed off enough that Valve does something about it.

Nah.....Valve is not going to bend the knee to publishers, especially not stupid ones.

 

[RoboFu]

It should have had glowing review in the first place.

 

[Topher]

It should have had glowing review in the first place.

It did

 

[bender]

Probably benefits Microsoft more but at least it's isn't a negative review brigade.

 

[IDKFA]

This is when it gets a bit absurd. I understand what they're attempting to do, but it doesn't do anything. It's also not going to "fix" anything either, the damage is done. It would make more sense to cancel Gamepass subscriptions or something along those lines.

Agreed. Good intentions, but will result in nothing meaningful.

Microsoft are not going to reserve their decision or look at this and decide never to shut another studio again.

 

[Sophist]

It's only charming when used in moderation. Eventually the publishers will get pissed off enough that Valve does something about it.

They already did:

Steam :: Steam News :: User Reviews

We've been planning some changes to User Reviews for a while now, and we thought it'd be useful to give you some insight into our thinking on review bombing, which is one of the problems we're tackling. Review bombing is where players post a large number of reviews in a very compressed time...

steamcommunity.com

Steam :: Steam News :: User Reviews Revisited

Some time ago we made some changes to how we presented the User Reviews for games, and their resulting Review Score. We talked about those changes in this blog post. As we describe in that post, we want to ensure that players who've played a game can voice their opinions about why other people...

steamcommunity.com

The steam review documentation for game developers; What they can do and can't about the reviews.

User Reviews (Steamworks Documentation)

partner.steamgames.com

 

[StueyDuck]

I mean... this is stupid, the studio is already dead. It's not the same as changing an update

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Doing my part.

You're supporting Microsoft, tango is no more.

 

[Gaelyon]

If I was Sony, I'll hire all the ex-Tango team to reform a studio, let's call it "Flamenco Team" and give them a nice budget for their next project...

 

[simpatico]

Played this for a bit on Gamepass. Should probably buy it on Steam. Don't see myself resubbing anytime soon to GP.

 

[Fredrik]

If I was Sony, I'll hire all the ex-Tango team to reform a studio, let's call it "Flamenco Team" and give them a nice budget for their next project...

Yeah and let them make a spiritual successor called Higher Fidelity Rush, or Higher Rush, Ultra Rush, with slight tweaked story but more or less identical in gameplay, like Dark Souls was to Demon’s Souls.

 

[Buggy Loop]

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Nah.....Valve is not going to bend the knee to publishers, especially not stupid ones.

Yeah, what are they going to do? Run to the Epic Store?

 

[Krathoon]

I found a cheap key for HI-FI RUSH. Just $22 for the deluxe edition.

Could not pass that up.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Jaysus whomg, it's like someone just dropped a liter of undiluted entropy into the MMO of life. Fucking craziness in gaming lately, cats and dogs etc

 

[Dirk Benedict]

maybe people should have done this 18 months ago?

The lack of this is why Tango is going up. I already left my positive reviews on Steam. It's too little, too late. MS would be thinking the same shit, after seeing what this is about.