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Metacritic promises stricter moderation to tackle 'abusive and disrespectful' user reviews

Aloy and Seyka

An optional kiss in Horizon: Forbidden West's DLC, Burning Shores, has unfortunately inspired a lot of frothing homophobia in Metacritic's user reviews section. In response, Metacritic owner Fandom says it's taking steps to counter review-bombing campaigns and instances of "abusive and disrespectful" reviews. 

Forbidden West has yet to make its way over to PC, but reactionary rants are far from exclusive to PS5 games. If anything can remotely be deemed as "woke", you know there are going to be folk absolutely losing their shit over it on Steam and Metacritic. 

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