Titan Souls was review bombed in April 2015 by supporters of YouTuber John "TotalBiscuit" Bain after the indie game's artist Andrew Gleeson mocked a statement that Bain made, saying the game was "absolutely not for ". Mass Effect 3 was also review bombed on the site in 2012. The website Metacritic was criticized in 2011 for poor oversight of their user reviews, leading to rampant review bombing on popular games such as Bastion and Toy Soldiers: Cold War that brought their user rating to low levels. This system was meant to prevent piracy, but ultimately led to a coordinated backlash with buyers feeling like they were "renting a broken game." Spore was review bombed on Amazon in 2008 after publisher Electronic Arts incorporated a digital rights management (DRM) system that limited buyers' ability to install the game more than three times. This is a timeline of major incidents of review bombing, a tactic where a large number of users purposefully post negative reviews of a video game or film on a review website in order to damage its sales or reputation.
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