Not even a day after the launch of the free-to-play battle royale Battlefield RedSec, the game has already experienced its first controversy, with wave of negative reviews dropping RedSec's review rating to "Mostly Negative" on Steam, with a mere 38% of the reviews recommending the game. While the base gameplay of RedSec has apparently sat well with many gamers, with many praising the destruction mechanics and the large open maps, many players seem rather upset about a number of issues largely related to how the free-to-play game interacts with and compares to the main Battlefield 6 game. The main take-away is that gamers who bought Battlefield 6 seem to feel like they are being pressured into playing RedSec and that it appears as though DICE and EA invested significantly more time and resources into RedSec than Battlefield 6.

One recurring complaint is that Battlefield 6's weekly challenges are tied to game modes in RedSec, while other players seem upset that there is more variety in RedSec when it comes to vehicle options. The same appears to be true for the map and game design in RedSec, which features a larger map than Battlefield 6—even EA called the RedSec map the largest in any Battlefield game. That size offers players more freedom and perhaps even strategic advantages. "Oh wow a nice big map with lots of POIs and flanks. If only we could get something like this for the main game," reads one review. Complaints also abound, both on Reddit and in the Steam reviews, about bugs and the game's lack of polish, but those issues are likely to be resolved in time. Despite the complaints, Battlefield RedSec is currently eighth in SteamDB's top sales charts, with the Season 1 battle pass coming in fifth place.

Starfield's Shattered Space DLC launched on September 30, and it was meant to address many of the base game's major issues, with a more hand-crafted feel, more intimate encounters, and a more narrative-driven gameplay experience. Instead, Steam gamers and critics alike have lambasted the expansion online for boring and underwhelming, repetitive gameplay, calling it "more Starfield," essentially repeating the story of Starfield's initial launch. At the time of writing, the Shattered Space DLC has 1,601 reviews on Steam, with only just over 34% of those reviews rating the expansion positively—placing it squarely in the "Mostly Negative" category on Steam.

Likely the biggest disappointment when it comes to Shattered Space's poor reception is that the Starfield player base actually seemed quite optimistic about the expansion, thanks to previous gameplay and interviews about the intention behind the expansion. Critically, however, Starfield developer, Bethesda, deliberately didn't send out game keys to the press for review prior to the launch of the game, so there was no real way for players to know whether they would enjoy the $29.99 expansion before buying it.

You've probably heard about the recent issues regarding PewDiePie (handle of one of the most popular gaming YouTubers, Felix Kjellberg) and Campo Santo (Firewatch). The company issued a copyright strike for the YouTuber's streaming of their game, where Kjellberg used racist terms which Campo Santo didn't feel they should be in any way associated with. YouTube accepted the copyright strike, taking the video down. Legally, Campo Santo (and any video game company for that matter) can do such a thing. Kjellberg, however, is particularly worried because, as he said, "It's a pretty big deal. If I get more than three of them, my channel will shut down." As a response, users started review bombing Firewatch on Steam - id est, posting negative review after negative review, or changing their positive reviews for negative ones, so as to diminish the game's score in the light of what they see as a reprimandable action from Campo Santo.