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Tails 64 posted...

it seems like a childish, ineffective way to try to make your voice heard. I doubt the user average review on Metacritic transforms the way companies operate...

This is literally false, since there are stories of publishers that refuse to pay bonuses based on Metacritic scores. Devs and publishers definitely pay attention, and review-bombed scores (whether there, on IMDB, or elsewhere) can lead potential audience to avoid titles, thus causing loss of sales.

I've never review-bombed anything myself, but when games get review-bombed I do start paying attention to why people are complaining, and often it'll lead me to decide that the flaws they're pissed about also annoy me, and thus I avoid buying the game. So in that sense, it works.