Despite InZoi's player count falling sharply, achieving something The Sims 4 hadn't in years, and almost dropping below The Sims 3, the game retained a strong community, willing to go to bat for it when the chips were down.
Fan sentiment started to change earlier this week, however, when Krafton listed the ways in which Generative AI was used in InZoi's development. The announcement led to sections of the community arguing about whether this was good for the game and the wider gaming scene.
InZoi's modding community is already wild.
Now, this negativity seems to have translated into the game's Steam reviews, with InZoi receiving more negative reviews than positive over a prolonged period for the first time in its history.
Over the last seven days, InZoi has received 34 more negative reviews than it has positive ones. Over that period, it got 148 positive reviews on Steam and 182 negative ones, meaning that for every four positive reviews, it received a little over five negative ones, according to data from SteamDB.
While those numbers are hardly terrifying—one good day could swing the week from a net negative to a net positive—they represent a bad pattern for the title.
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