When looking for new games to play, many gamers check critic reviews for titles that interest them. Storefronts such as Steam have a dedicated section of reviews for all of the games offered in the storefront, and most of the time these reviews from the players themselves and the community are accurate and reflect what the games really are all about.
On many occasions, there'll be a negative user review about a specific game, and the person who rated the game would seem to have hundreds of hours logged on to the game. Gamers in the community wonder how could this bizarre thing happen: spending hundreds of hours in a game just to rate it extremely negatively on Steam.
Originally posted on Reddit by user u/SaveADay89, they asked the community if they've ever played a game for hundreds of hours and not liked it, prompting a negative user review on Steam. They mentioned that most of these negative user reviews from games like Starfield, Diablo 4, and Assassin's Creed games state that there isn't enough content on these games.
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One of the leading reasons for this typical yet unique review situation is the sunk cost fallacy of buying games, according to some gamers in the thread. Consumers would buy a certain game for a certain amount and realize several hours in that it isn't the game for them yet they continue to play it just because they spent money on it is the perfect example of how this happens. Players would set their expectations in upcoming games that end up becoming the opposite of what they were looking for when they saw initial trailers and marketing.
Another gamer shared that in cases of multiplayer games such as Rainbow Six Siege, these games usually will have good beginning seasons and dwindle in quality as time progresses, resulting in negative reviews with hundreds of hours logged.
click to enlargeOthers also shared their sentiments that in cases like these, usually gamers who purchased these games cling to hope that the state of these games will improve, slowly adding hours and hours until they end up having more than what they initially wanted.
There may be many games that are currently in this state but No Man's Sky is the perfect example that a game can eventually bounce back up with enough time and improved content updates after updates. After an extremely rough launch, No Man's Sky is sitting at mostly positive reviews on Steam. No Man's Sky recently released its Aquarius update last month and gamers who love to fish in alien worlds are in for a treat.
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