WhatNitrous
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Well they'd be pretty hypocritical to downvote it for the smut factor if they were able to readMuch like the comment reaction, I don't vote/review in general, and didn't here. I don't pay much attention to them either. You can see what happened to Borderlands 2 recently to see how little such things have to do with the game in many cases.
That said, one review type I do pay attention to is anime reviews, and to a lesser extent, professional game journalism. While generally if something is rated poorly, there's usually a reason, some of those reasons have nothing to do whether or not I would enjoy it.
I remember magazines raving about some things, that I later played, and thought were absolute trash. The same is true in reverse for many anime shows. I've noticed kiddy stuff gets highly upvoted on MAL. Anything in 3D gets heavily downvoted. There's also a lot of hate for smut, which brings me to one possible reason for the downvote.
Some people just try something out, find it doesn't meet their expectations, and downvote without giving it any more thought than that.

But like you said some people are just lazy idiots or pricks at the root of it all and waste their time just to damage others. Big surprise on the internet

There are other possibilities like competitive devs and they're loyal butt monkeys (this is sadly the most likely scenario), personally I never bother unless I have something good to say about a game and I'd be annoyed if someone did it to another dev for me tbh.
There's also the reddit mentality just doing it because and others, but like I said...its possible it was well deserved too...even though we do our best, our best is still a learning process for both of us...even more so for ivo only because my programming experience through the ages makes me an extreme perfectionist about everything I code, but even if everything works perfectly on the surface my code is visibly inexperienced and uses hackjob methods to anyone with python skill.
Picking up DAZ as fast as ivo did is honestly much more impressive IMO (and I have tried using it), even if his lighting is off sometimes or theres some clipping...it was all learned from scratch out of pure desire to make a VN by himself and he started before I was even part of the project--fully intending to do it alone.
Regardless if I may get praised for my crazy additions most VNs never considered, he's definitely the more impressive end of this project coming to life, even if he cant see that himself
